CURRICULUM VITAE ELENI SOFOKLEOUS, PH.D. NUS Risk Management Institute (RMI) 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, I3 Building, Level 4, Singapore 119613 Phone: +65 6516 4116 Email: [email protected] Last update: October 2014 EDUCATION Ph.D, Accounting and Finance, 2013 University of Durham, UK M.Sc, International Banking and Finance, 2006 University of Durham, UK B.Sc, Economics, 2005 University of Athens, Greece PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research Fellow, 2014 - Present Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore Teaching Assistant in Finance, 2007-2010 (Finance, Economics, Accounting, Econometrics) University of Durham, UK RESEARCH INTERESTS Corporate Finance, Mergers And Acquisitions, Behavioral Finance, Credit Risk 1 WORKING PAPERS  ‘Diversified Mergers and Default Risk’  ‘The Impact of Market Conditions on the Motives for Mergers and Acquisitions’ (with Andreou P., Dixon R., and Louca C.)  ‘The source of Misvaluation and UK Takeover Profitability’ (with Pescetto G.) CONFERENCES & SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS       Risk Management Conference, RMI, NUS, Singapore, 2014 Symposium on Credit Risk, RMI, NUS, Singapore, 2014 Lecture Series on Central Banking, NUS, Singapore, 2014 Santander Doctorate Workshop in Advanced Financial Risk Management, NUS, Singapore, 2014 Multinational Finance Society (MFS) Conference, Kraków, Poland 2012 European Financial Management Association (EFMA), Merton H. Miller Doctoral Seminar, Denmark, 2010 SKILLS PROGRAMMING & IT Languages: SAS, MatLab, SPSS, MINITAB, GiveWin, VBA Database: COMPUSTAT, CRSP, Thompson SDC, MergerMarket, Datastream, Bloomberg, Ecowin PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGCert), 2008 Booking and Accounting, Intermediate Level, LCCI, 1998 Booking and Accounting, Elementary Level, LCCI, 1997 LANGUAGES Greek: Native speaker English: Excellent HONORS & AWARDS  Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2009  Distinction in the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGCert), 2008  Ph.D. Dean’s Scholarship, Durham Business School, 2007  Award for an Exceptional Doctoral Presentation, 2007  Distinction in the M.Sc. thesis, 2006 2