Professor of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt (Chair for International Macroeconomics and Macroeconometrics), is Chairman of the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management's Board. Binder did his undergraduate coursework in economics, business administration and law at the University of Kiel, and received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. Upon completion of his Ph.D. he was a faculty member at the University of Maryland until 2003. Binder has been a Fulbright scholar, a Marie Curie research fellow, a scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation, and has been the recipient of numerous teaching and advising awards. He has published on a variety of topics in macroeconomics and applied econometrics, and is/was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Empirical Economics. Binder has held visiting appointments inter alia at the University of Cambridge, the University of Munich, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Bank of Spain. Binder's current research in part examines the implications of financial and trade globalization for business cycle dynamics, output growth and exchange rate dynamics. This research involves the development of new econometric methods for macroeconomic panels, as well as the assembly of new cross-country panel data sets.

Professor of Economics at Darmstadt University of Technology, is Member of the GSEFM Board. He pursued his graduate education at Free University of Berlin and at Humboldt University of Berlin and obtained his doctoral degree in economics from Humboldt University Berlin in 2000. Before coming to Darmstadt in 2009, he was Senior Economist for Bankgesellschaft Berlin from 1995 to 2003, Junior Professor of Economics at Free University of Berlin until 2009, and Head of Division at KOF Swiss Economic Institute from 2007 to 2009. He currently is also affiliated as Research Professor with the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich and as Research Fellow with the CESifo in Munich. His research focuses on international trade patterns, regional integration, institutional arrangements, currency unions, exchange rate regimes, central banks, and empirical economic geography.

Professor Loriana Pelizzon is Member of the GSEFM Board, Full Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, Chair of Law and Finance as well as SAFE Deputy Scientific Director, Department Director of "Financial Markets" and Coordinator of Gender Equality. She is also part-time Full Professor of Economics at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan and WFA CFAR Affiliate, Olin Business School, Washington University, St. Louis, US. She graduated from the London Business School with a doctorate in Finance. Her research interests are on risk measurement and management, hedge funds, market microstructure, financial institutions, systemic risk, sovereign risk and financial crisis.

Ferdinand von Siemens is Member of the GSEFM Board and professor for applied economics at the Goethe University Frankfurt since September 2012. He studied economics at the University of Freiburg and the University of Munich. He completed his PhD in economics at the University of Munich in 2004. Since then he worked at the University of Munich and since 2008 at the University of Amsterdam. His main research interests are applied contract theory, behavioral economics and experimental economics.

Klaus Wälde has been working on economic theory, business cycles and international trade since the beginning of his PhD studies in 1992. He has published in leading international journals, such as Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Journal or International Economic Review. Recent work focuses on labour markets and their reforms (especially the Hartz Reforms in Germany) and on 'Emotional Economics'. He also contributed chapters to a textbook and taught Applied Intertemporal Optimization, an advanced textbook at the PhD level, at various universities. He was invited for talks and research visits to many European countries, to North America and Asia. He is a member of CESifo (www.cesifo.de) and IZA and an Extra-mural Fellow of the Department of Economics of the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve. He also serves as liaison lecturer (Vertrauensdozent) of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. He is associate editor of the Journal of Economics.

Anna Rohlfing-Bastian is Professor for Accounting at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2016. She studied International Business Administration at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan. She obtained her doctoral degree at the University of Mannheim in 2010. Between 2006 and 2016, she worked at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, the University of Mannheim, and the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar.

Ferdinand von Siemens is professor for applied economics at the Goethe University Frankfurt since September 2012. He studied economics at the University of Freiburg and the University of Munich. He completed his PhD in economics at the University of Munich in 2004. Since then he worked at the University of Munich and since 2008 at the University of Amsterdam. His main research interests are applied contract theory, behavioral economics and experimental economics.

Professor of Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt (UBS Endowed Chair of Asset Pricing), is Director of the Ph.D. Program in Finance and the MSQ Program in Quantitative Finance. He is also member of the Fraunhofer ITWM, Kaiserslautern. Kraft received his doctorate in Mathematical Finance from TU Kaiserslautern in 2002. His current research focuses on liquidity risk, credit risk, portfolio optimization over the life cycle, and contagion effects in capital markets.w and finance, law and economics, and antitrust issues.

Simone Wies received her M.Sc. in Marketing and Finance and Ph.D. in Finance from Maastricht University, and is Professor of Marketing at Goethe University Frankfurt. Prior to her appointment as professor , she held the SAFE Junior Professorship for Marketing and Finance at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE at Goethe University, and a post-doctoral research position in marketing at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

Claudia studied politics, law and economics in Duisburg and Nottingham. After her studies, she worked for pwc Germany and at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is a communication trainer and mediator.

Sarah studied American Studies and Business Administration at Goethe University Frankfurt. During her studies, she held various positions in communication departments and now works for the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and GSEFM.