Women in Finance, leading global experts share their insights.

Join international financial experts for an insightful conversation on confidence, capability, and collaboration for investing.

08:30am - Arrival Tea & Coffee and Registration

08:50am – Event Open/Welcome/Introduction

09:00am Keynote - Professor Renee Adams (Oxford University)

Prof. Adams presents virtually from Germany to share her thoughts on gender diversity in finance, business, and academia. Professor Adams is a world-leading interdisciplinary scholar, with her work published across accounting, finance, economics, and management journals. In 2019, she was awarded the Female Career Award from HEC Lausanne for her outstanding academic career and co-founded AFFECT, the American Finance Association’s ‘Academic Female Finance Committee,’ in 2015. Her work on gender diversity, in particular, has received global media coverage and has been featured in the Financial Times, the Economist, the Daily Telegraph, The Australian, The New Zealand Herald, and many others.

09:45am Morning tea/refreshments - Light morning tea refreshments will be served.

10:00am Panel - Hosted by Business Desk

Our panel includes leading finance experts who will reflect on Prof. Adams' keynote and how we can narrow the gap for women in finance.

• Professor Christina Atanasova (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

• Associate Professor Lina El-Jahel (University of Auckland, NZ)

• Associate Professor Angel Zhong (RMIT, Australia)

10:45am – Event Ends