André Lucas is an expert in Financial Risk Management, Asset Pricing, and Financial Econometrics. His research focuses on empirical modelling issues for market and credit risk, in particular at the portfolio level. He has published on this topic in journals such as Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Applied Mathematical Finance, and Journal of Banking and Finance.

Arnoud Boot is Professor of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets at the University of Amsterdam and director of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE). He is a member of the Dutch Social Economic Council (SER) and the Bank Council of the Dutch Central Bank (DNB).
He is also advisor to the Riksbank (Central Bank of Sweden), Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and at the Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan. Prior to his current positions, he was on the faculty of the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, and during 2000-2001 he was a partner in the Finance and Strategy Practice at McKinsey & Co.
In addition to his academic activities, professor Boot advises extensively on ownership structure issues, particularly related to the public/private domain. He is frequently involved in legal cases (expert opinions), and is consultant to several financial institutions and corporations. His consultancy activities concern the regulation and strategic positioning of financial institutions, corporate finance, governance and anti-trust issues. For these activities, he has also established the Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance, a ”think tank” designed to improve the interaction between theory and practice

Sweder van Wijnbergen is professor of economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam. In 1997 Hans Wijers brought him in to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, where he worked as secretary until 1999.Van Wijnbergen studied physics at Utrecht University and Econometrics at the Erasmus University. He obtained his doctorate on economics at MIT in the US. Between 1980 and 1992 van Wijnbergen was attached to the World Bank, in the second half of this period as head economist. His research area is focused on international economics, finance, balance of payments- and financial crises.

Herbert Rijken is attached to the VU University as professor of corporate finance at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business Administration. He studied Applied Physics at the TU Delft and Business Administration at the University Nyenrode. He has obtained his doctorate at the faculty Applied Physics of the TU Eindhoven. Education- and research activities are mainly focused on corporate finance, in particular credit risk and corporate governance.

Tom Groot is professor Management Accounting at the Faculty Economic Sciences and Business Administration at the VU University. He is also head of the department Accounting and director of the research institute Amsterdam Research Center in Accounting (ARCA) and honorary member of the Association of Financial Controllers. He regularly publishes in national and international magazines about the performance measurement and -judgment, management control and financial management in commercial firms as well as non-profit organizations.

Leo van Eerden is attached to the VU University as a professor at the finance department of the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business Administration. He studied International Economics at the University of Tilburg and at the moment he is working on his PhD at the VU University. His current research area is mainly focused on financial crises, regulation, supervision on banks and system risk management.