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