Awards & Nominations

2023

Awards & Distinctions

Tony Berrada, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the Fidelity Best Paper Award at the SGFIN Research Conference on Sustainability for the paper "The Economics of Sustainability Linked Bonds" (with Professor Rajna Gibson Brandon, Professor Philipp Krüger, and Léonie Engelhardt)
received the Best Paper Award at the 29^th Annual Conference of the Multinational Finance Society for the paper "COVID-19 Puzzles: A Resolution"

Leonie Bräuer, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the Swiss Finance Institute Best Discussant Doctoral Award 2023

Federica Braccioli, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the Young Economist Award at the European Economic Association Annual Congress for the paper "The Institutional Role of the Italian Mafia: Enforcing Contracts When the State Does Not"

Léonie Engelhardt, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the Fidelity Best Paper Award at the SGFIN Research Conference on Sustainability for the paper "The Economics of Sustainability Linked Bonds" (with Professor Tony Berrada, Professor Rajna Gibson Brandon, and Professor Philipp Krüger)

Rajna Gibson Brandon, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the SWW Women Award from the Jury from the Swiss Who’s Who
received the Fidelity Best Paper Award at the SGFIN Research Conference on Sustainability for the paper "The Economics of Sustainability Linked Bonds" (with Professor Tony Berrada, Professor Philipp Krüger, and Léonie Engelhardt)

Manuel Hentschel, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
received the Best Student Paper Award at EVA 2023 - Extreme Value Analysis Conference for the paper "Statistical Inference for Hüsler-Reiss Graphical Models Through Matrix Completions"

Kyungbo Han, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the Prix William Rappard for the best thesis in the field of sustainability for his thesis "Three Essays on Environmental and Development Economics"

Aneta Havranova, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the Prix Genre 2023

Martin Hoesli, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the Real Estate Investment Award from the American Real Estate Society (ARES) for the paper "The Role of Multi-Family Properties in Hedging Pension Liability Risk: Long-Run Evidence" (with Louis Johner)

Louis Johner, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the Real Estate Investment Award from the American Real Estate Society (ARES) for the paper "The Role of Multi-Family Properties in Hedging Pension Liability Risk: Long-Run Evidence" (with Professor Martin Hoesli)

Sofonias Alemu Korsaye, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the Brattle Group Ph.D. Candidate Award For Outstanding Research at the 2023 Western Finance Association Meeting for the paper "Investor Beliefs and Market Frictions"
had the article, "The Global Factor Structure of Exchange" selected as the 2023 April/May Editor’s Choice in the Journal of Financial Economics (with Professor Fabio Trojani)

Philipp Krüger, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the Fidelity Best Paper Award at the SGFIN Research Conference on Sustainability for the paper "The Economics of Sustainability Linked Bonds"(with Professor Tony Berrada, Professor Rajna Gibson Brandon, and Léonie Engelhardt)
received the Best Paper Award at the 12^th Portuguese Finance Network Conference for the paper "Decarbonizing Institutional Investor Portfolios: Helping to Green the Planet or Just Greening Your Portfolio?"
had his article, "Climate Risk Disclosure and Institutional Investors" selected as the 2023 July issue Editor’s Choice paper in the Review of Financial Studies

Diego Kuonen, Adjunct Professor, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
received the Søren Bisgaard Award of the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for his article "Problem framing: Essential to successful statistical engineering applications”  

Jérémy Lucchetti, Associate Professor, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the Swiss Education Research Prize 2023 for the article "Distance Learning in Higher Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment" (with Professor Michele Pellizzari)

Avichal Mahajan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the 2023 GSEM Young Researcher Award

Pia Pannatier, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the University of Geneva Subside Tremplin 2023

Michele Pellizzari, Full Professor, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the Swiss Education Research Prize 2023 for the article "Distance Learning in Higher Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment" (with Professor Jérémy Lucchetti)

Sebastian Raisch, Full Professor, Institute of Management
received the 2023 Best Developmental Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Review 

Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Associate Professor, Institute of Management
received the Best Practical Solutions Award 2023 from the Society for Business Ethics for the paper “A Process Model of Organizational Repair Efforts: The Case of U.S. Universities and Antebellum Slavery”

Fabio Trojani, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
had his article, "The Global Factor Structure of Exchange" selected as the 2023 April/May Editor’s Choice in the Journal of Financial Economics

Nominations

Eva Cantoni, Full Professor, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
has been appointed President of the Federal Statistics Commission

Céline Carrère, Full Professor, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
has been appointed Vice Rector of the University of Geneva

Thomas Fischer, Assistant Professor, Institute of Management
has been appointed Yearly Review Editor of The Leadership Quarterly

Philipp Krüger, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
has been appointed Associate Editor in Finance of Management Science

Diego Kuonen, Adjunct Professor, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
has been appointed Chair of the International Statistical Engineering Association (ISEA)

Markus Menz, Full Professor, Institute of Management
has been reappointed to the Journal of Management Editorial Review Board

Sebastian Raisch, Full Professor, Institute of Management
has been appointed Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review

Olivier Scaillet, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
has been named Elected Member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
has been named Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics
has been Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute

Fabio Trojani, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
has been reappointed Editor of the Journal of Financial Econometric

Awards & Distinctions

Oumaima Ajmi, Senior Research Associate, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
received the Teaching Innovation Award within the GSEM for her project "E-School training"

Alissa Bentele, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Management
received a Case Teaching Scholarship from The Case Centre

Tony Berrada, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the Best Paper Award at the World Finance Conference 2022 for the paper "COVID-19 Puzzles: A Resolution"

Federica Braccioli, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the University of Geneva Subside Tremplin 2022

Ane Casajús, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Management
received a Case Writing Scholarship from The Case Centre

Thomas Fischer, Assistant Professor, Institute of Management
received The Leadership Quarterly Best Article Award for the article "Ethical leadership: Mapping the terrain for concept cleanup and a future research agenda"

Kateryna Fomina, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Management
was a Behavioral Strategy IG Best Proposal Finalist at the Strategic Management Society 42nd Annual Conference for the article "When Artificial Intelligence Solves Problems: A Technology-Based Theory of Organizational Search" (with Professor Sebastian Raisch)

Martin Hoesli, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the IRES "Bert Kruijt” Service Award from the International Real Estate Society
received the David Ricardo Medal from the American Real Estate Society

Valentin Jouvenot, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the Prix William Rappard for the best thesis in the field of sustainability

Isa Kuosmanen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the 2022 GSEM Young Researcher Award

Igor Matias, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
received the Outstanding YP Member Award from the IEEE Portugal Section

Markus Meierer, Assistant Professor, Institute of Management
received the Rigor and Relevance Research Award from the Swiss Academy of Marketing Science

Cesare Miglioli, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
received the Best Paper Award at SC22 - The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis for the paper "ProbGraph: High-Performance and High-Accuracy Graph Mining with Probabilistic Set Representations"

Monika Mrázová, Full Professor, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the Kateřina Šmídková Award from the Czech Economic Society

Sebastian Raisch, Full Professor, Institute of Management
received the Outstanding Bridge Reviewer Mentor award from the Academy of Management Review
was a Behavioral Strategy IG Best Proposal Finalist at the Strategic Management Society 42nd Annual Conference for the paper "When Artificial Intelligence Solves Problems: A Technology-Based Theory of Organizational Search" (with Kateryna Fomina)

Olivier Scaillet, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the Best Asset Pricing Paper Award at the 38th International Conference of the French Finance Association

Katherine Tatarinov, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Management
received the 2022 Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award for her thesis "Managing, Structuring and Scaling Innovation in International Organizations"

Alexandra Telychko, Lecturer, Institute of Management
received the University of Geneva Subside Tremplin 2022

Shervin Zakeri, Ph.D. Student, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
received a Doc.Mobility grant from the University of Geneva

Nominations

Tina Ambos, Full Professor, Institute of Management
has been appointed a Board member of the European International Business Academy

Giacomo De Giorgi, Full Professor, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
has been appointed a Panel member of Economic Policy

Rajna Gibson Brandon, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
has been elected to the Bank Council of the Swiss National Bank

Diego Kuonen, Adjunct Professor, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
has been appointed Chair-Elect of the International Statistical Engineering Association
has been elected to the Swiss Digital Initiative’s Label Expert Committee
has been appointed member of the Scientific Committee of the 2023 New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics Conference

Thomas Maillart, Senior Lecturer, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
has been appointed General Chair of the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security

Monika Mrázová, Full Professor, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
has been awarded the Kenen Fellowship from Princeton University

Sebastian Raisch, Full Professor, Institute of Management
has been reappointed to the Academy of Management Journal Editorial Review Board

Olivier Scaillet, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute 
has been nominated Programme Chair "Econometrics and Empirical Economics" for the European Economic Association - Econometric Society European Meeting 2024

Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Associate Professor, Institute of Management
has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Business and Human Rights Journal, Cambridge University Press

Fabio Trojani, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
has been elected Fellow of The Society of Financial Econometrics (SoFIE)
has been elected Fellow of the International Association for Applied Econometrics

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, Full Professor, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
has been awarded the title of Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute

Awards & Distinctions

Ursa Bernardic, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Management
received the UNIGE Subside Tremplin 2021

Gaëlle Cotterlaz-Rannard, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Management
obtained an Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation

Giacomo De Giorgi, Full Professor, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
has been appointed international expert for the World Bank

Sebastian Engelke, Associate Professor, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
received the Johann Heinrich Lambert Award 2021 for his contributions in the fields of extreme value theory and graphical models

Gilles Falquet, Associate Professor, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
received the ESRI Outstanding Paper in 3D Data Management Award at the 16th 3D GeoInfo Conference and 3D Cadastres Workshop, for the paper "Knowledge graph construction for subsurface objects including uncertainty and time variation" (with Dr. Claudine Métral)

Michel Ferrary, Full Professor, Institute of Management
received the Best Paper Award at the 31st AGRH conference for the paper “Is the research bet enough to be a prestigious university? A Bourdieusian perspective on the business models of nonprofit organizations"

Julien Forbat, Lecturer, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
obtained a Postdoc.Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation

Nicola Gnecco, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
obtained a Doc.Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation

Sofonias Alemu Korsaye, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Geneva Finance Research Institute
obtained a Doc.Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation

Philipp Krüger, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the Best Paper Prize at the 4th Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment Conference for the paper "The Effects of Mandatory ESG Disclosure around the World"
received the Best Conference Paper Award Runner Up at the European Finance Association Annual Meeting

Jérémy Lucchetti, Associate Professor, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the GSEM Teaching Award, following a survey conducted among Bachelor students

Claudine Métral, Senior Lecturer, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
received the ESRI Outstanding Paper in 3D Data Management Award at the 16th 3D GeoInfo Conference and 3D Cadastres Workshop, for the paper "Knowledge graph construction for subsurface objects including uncertainty and time variation" (with Professor Gilles Falquet)

Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Associate Professor, Institute of Management 
received the 2020 BHRJ Annual Reviewer Award from the Business and Human Rights Journal, Cambridge University Press

Katherine Tatarinov, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Management
received the William Rappard Prize for the best thesis in the field of sustainability
received the 2021 GSEM Young Researcher Award

Katarzyna Wac, Full Professor, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
received the Technical Achievement Award in Sensor Systems or Networks – Early Career, from the IEEE Sensors Council

Haotian Xu, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
obtained a Postdoc.Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation

Yuming Zhang, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
received the UNIGE Subside Tremplin 2021

Nominations

Tina Ambos, Full Professor, Institute of Management
has been invited to lead a track in the Organizing for Good campaign, a joint initiative of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Organizational Design Community

Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Management
has been selected for the #ThinklistImpact, from the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society at the University of Bath
has been appointed co-editor of the Practice in Business Ethics section of the Journal of Business Ethics
has been elected to the advisory group for the Swiss National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights
has been invited to co-chair the PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) Working Group on Business and Human Rights, an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact
has been invited to join the International Gender Champions, Geneva

Rajna Gibson Brandon, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
has been nominated for election to the Bank Council of Swiss National Bank
has been appointed Member of the Academic Research Committee of the Gender Lens Initiative for Switzerland launched by the Sustainable Finance Geneva
has been appointed Member of the Academic Advisory Board of RepRisk

Jaya Krishnakumar, Full Professor, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
has been elected to the International Advisory Board for the project Multidimensional Biodiversity Index of the UN Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Diego Kuonen, Adjunct Professor, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science 
has been appointed a member of the Advisory Board of Swissmedic 4.0
has been appointed ad interim Head of Unit of the Competence Network in Artificial Intelligence of the Federal Statistical Office
has been invited to join the Advisory Board of digiVolution
has been invited to join the Board of the International Statistical Engineering Association

Awards & Distinctions

Monika Avila Marquez, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the UNIGE Subside tremplin 2020

Michelle Bergadaà, Honorary Professor, Institute of Management
received the Grand Prize for pedagogical innovation 2019 of the Conférence internationale des Dirigeants des institutions d’Enseignement supérieur et de recherche de Gestion d’Expression Française (CIDEGEF), the Fondation nationale pour l’enseignement de la gestion des entreprises (FNEGE) and the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)

Tony Berrada, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the Best Discussion Award at the 8th HEC-McGill Winter Finance Research Workshop

Jean-Christophe Delfim, Ph.D. Student, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the 2020 Nick Tyrrell Research Prize for the paper “Real Estate in Mixed-Asset Portfolios for Various Investment Horizons” (with Professor Martin Hoesli)
received the Special Award from the Association Française des Investisseurs Institutionnels (Af2i) for the same article (with Professor Martin Hoesli)

Giacomo De Giorgi, Full Professor, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the Premio Citibanamex de Economía 2019 for his research work on “The extension of credit and the externalities of sequential banking”

Rajna Gibson Brandon, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the 2020 ICPM Research Award for the paper “Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World” (with Professor Philipp Krüger)

Martin Hoesli, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the 2020 IRES Service Award from the International Real Estate Society
received the David C. Lincoln Fellowships in Land Value Taxation
received the 2020 Nick Tyrrell Research Prize for the paper “Real Estate in Mixed-Asset Portfolios for Various Investment Horizons” (with Jean-Christophe Delfim)
received the Special Award from the Association Française des Investisseurs Institutionnels (Af2i) for the same article (with Jean-Christophe Delfim)

Philipp Krüger, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
received the PVH Thought Leadership Grant of USD 5’000 from the Fordham Gabelli School of Business
received the 2020 ICPM Research Award for the paper “Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World” (with Professor Rajna Gibson Brandon)
was ranked #1 in Business Administration based on A+ publications (age 40 or below) by Forschungsmonitoring.org

Jérémy Lucchetti, Associate Professor, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the GSEM Teaching Award, following a survey conducted among Bachelor students

Clemente Pignatti, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the "Carlo Dell’Aringa" Young Labor Economists Award 2020 for his paper "Compliance with Labour Legislation in Informal Labour Markets"

Jean-Marc Solleder, Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
received the 2020 GSEM Young Researcher Award for his paper “Market power and export taxes”, published in the European Economic Review

Nominations

Giacomo De Giorgi, Full Professor, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
has been elected Fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development

Sebastian Engelke, Associate Professor, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
has been elected as a member of the International Statistical Institute

Diego Kuonen, Adjunct Professor, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
has been invited to join the ICT Advisory Committee of Statistics Netherlands

Markus Menz, Full Professor, Institute of Management
has been invited to join the Journal of Management Editorial Review Board

Sebastian Raisch, Full Professor, Institute of Management
has been invited to renew his 3-year term as a member of the Journal of Management Studies Editorial Review Board

Olivier Scaillet, Full Professor, Geneva Finance Research Institute
has been elected Fellow of the International Association for Applied Econometrics
has been invited to renew his 3-year term as Associate Editor at The Econometrics Journal