Meet the team
Leadership team
Lucio Sarno
Professor of Finance
Sarah Carter
CEAM Executive Director
Sarah Carter is Executive Director of the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Endowment Asset Management, and previously set up and managed the Master of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. Before that, she worked for Plan International and for the United Nations Association. She has undertaken PhD coursework and research at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was awarded an MA with distinction in International Studies by Durham University and a BA (Hons) in Psychology by the University of Hertfordshire.
Research team
The research team, led by Prof Lucio Sarno, brings together researchers at the University of Cambridge with researchers at other institutions.
Alex Kostakis
Professor of Finance at the University of Liverpool Management School
Ferenc Horvath
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Finance at the University of Liverpool
Junxuan Wang
Assistant Professor in the Thrust of Financial Technology at HKUST (Guangzhou)
Xiaoxia Ye
Professor of Finance at Nottingham University Business School
Brandon McBride
PhD Candidate in the Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
SFX co-chairs
Lucio Sarno
Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Christian Wagner
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Josef Zechner
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
SFX programme committee
Georg Cejnek
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Andreas Neuhierl
Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University
Riccardo Colacito
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Otto Randl
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Magnus Dahlquist
Stockholm School of Economics
Alberto Rossi
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Xiang Fang
University of Hong Kong
Fabricius Somogyi
Northeastern University
Zhengyang Jiang
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Andrea Vedolin
Questrom School of Business Boston University
Amy Huber
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Stefan Voigt
Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Stephan Kranner
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Michael Weber
Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University
Semyon Malamud
Swiss Finance Institute, EPFL
SFX practitioner panel
Owain Johnson
Global Head of Research, CME Group
Chris Povey
Head of FX Options & NDFs, CME Group
Richard Stevens
Executive Director, CME Group
SFX organisers
Sarah Carter
CEAM Executive Director
Sarah Carter is Executive Director of the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Endowment Asset Management, and previously set up and managed the Master of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. Before that, she worked for Plan International and for the United Nations Association. She has undertaken PhD coursework and research at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was awarded an MA with distinction in International Studies by Durham University and a BA (Hons) in Psychology by the University of Hertfordshire.
Merve Karakaş
CEAM Centre Manager
Merve is Centre Manager of the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM). Prior to joining CEAM, she was practicing corporate law in Turkey as an in-house lawyer in Istanbul. Merve holds LLM in Economic Law from Galatasaray University, and LLB from Istanbul University.
Brandon McBride
Finance PhD Candidate at Cambridge
Tianshu Liu
Finance PhD Candidate at Cambridge
Annwen Gray
CEAM Centre Administrator
Annwen is Administrator for the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM). Prior to joining CEAM, she worked within Recruitment and Admissions for the Master of Business programmes at Cambridge Judge Business School.