The Department of Accounting and Finance at Lancaster University is delighted to host the second edition of the Lake District Workshop in Corporate Finance. The workshop will take place at The Belsfield Hotel in Bowness-on-Windermere, located in the Lake District, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The workshop will be on May 8 and 9, 2025.
We are delighted to announce Professor Andrey Malenko as our distinguished keynote speaker for the workshop. Professor Malenko is a full professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. He is a member of the Finance Theory Group, a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and, since 2023, a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. His research focuses on corporate finance, governance, mergers and acquisitions, auction theory, and information economics. Andrey is currently one Editor of the Review of Financial Studies.
The organising committee
Scientific Committee: Lora Dimitrova (University of Exeter), Sapnoti Eswar (University of St. Andrews), Tony Hu (University of Warwick), John Kuong (CUHK Business School), Ali Lazrak (University of British Columbia), Shushu Liao (Kühne Logistics University), Frank Murray (University of Minnesota), Paul Voss (HEC Paris), Elizabeth Whalley (University of Warwick), Adam Winegar (BI Norwegian Business School), Yafei Zhang (University of Manchester).
Departmental assistant
Email: a.a.desai@lancaster.ac.uk; Tel: +44 (0)1524 522212