Najah Attig is a Professor of Finance and Chair of the Department of Finance at Dalhousie University. He recently completed two terms as a Canada Research Chair in Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance. His research focuses on the connections between corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, non-financial performance disclosure (e.g., sustainability, ESG, human capital), corporate policies, shareholder value, and financing frictions. His work has been published in leading finance and ethics journals and has garnered over 4,100 Google Scholar citations. Dr. Attig has received several accolades, including the Barclays Global Investors Canada Research Award and the Toronto CFA Society Best Paper Award for Original Research on Canadian Capital Markets. His study, Diversification in Hard Times, co-authored with Oumar Sy, recently received the prestigious 2023 CFA Institute Graham and Dodd Scroll Award.

Chahine Attig is a data science engineering student at ENSAI (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de !'Analyse de !'Information), France.