Hyacinthe Yirlier Somé is CIBC Research Chair on Financial Integrity, Codirector of the Research Group in Responsible Finance (GReFA), and Professor of Finance at the École de Gestion, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. His current research includes financial/social integrity, corporate governance, pay inequality, cost of capital, corporate innovation, foreign direct investment, and mergers and acquisitions.

Narjess Boubakri is Dean of the School of Business Administration and Professor of Finance, at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Her research interests include privatization, corporate governance and transparency, privatization, legal and political institutions, Islamic finance, cost of capital, firm valuation, earnings management, and mergers and acquisitions.

Omrane Guedhami is the C. Russell Hill Professor and Professor of International Finance at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina, USA. His research interests are international, covering corporate governance, audit quality, tax enforcement, state capitalism and privatization, national culture, and corporate social responsibility.