Eric Briys is the CEO and co-founder of Cyberlibris, an Internet based company specializing in digital libraries. He was previously a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank in London where he was heading the Insurance Strategies Group. He has worked also for Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers in London. Prior to joining the investment banking world, he was a Professor of Finance at the HEC School of Management. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has published seven books on finance and economics and more than thirty scientific articles.

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Ariane Chapelle is Professor of Finance at the ULB. She also lectures in the ESCP-EAP MBA programme. She previously worked for the ING bank, where she was in charge of developing operational risk management. She holds a PhD in Economics from ULB. She is the author of 2 books on operational risk management and on corporate governance. She has published several scientific articles on corporate governance, finance and risk management.

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André Farber is Professor of Finance at the ULB and Dean of the Faculty of Social Science, Politics and Economics – Solvay Business School. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, Cornell University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD in Management Science from ULB. He has published three books and numerous papers on finance in leading academic journals. He has been president of the European Finance Association.

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Georges Hübner is the Deloitte Professor of Financial Management at the HEC Management School - University of Liège. He is also Professor of Finance at Maastricht University and EDHEC (Lille-Nice). He has taught at executive and postgraduate levels on several continents. He holds a PhD in Management from INSEAD. Prof. Hübner has published several papers on derivatives in leading academic journals.

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Michel Massart is Professor of Advanced Accounting at the ULB.  He also teaches accounting and taxation in the Master in Tax Management of the Solvay Business School.  Until 2002, he was Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Belgium, where he was in charge of the Corporate Finance department.  He is currently a Director and Chairman of the audit committee of Millicom International Cellular, a mobile telephone operator in emerging markets.  He has published a book on tax aspects of accounting.

Hugues Pirotte is Professor of Finance at the ULB. He also lectures at the Luxembourg School of Finance and the Swiss Accountancy Academy. He is the CEO and co-founder of FinMetrics, a Swiss consultancy and software development firm in risk management. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Lausanne. He is the author of 2 books on CRM and finance. He has published several scientific and practitioners’ articles on risk management and finance in general.

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Gilles Samyn, Commercial engineer, graduated from the Solvay Business School and is a part-time lecturer at the ULB. He is Managing Director of the Frere Group; Deputy-Chairman and Managing Director of the Compagnie Nationale à Portefeuille/ Nationale Portefeuille Maatschappij; Chairman, director or member of various boards and committees in a number of listed and non-listed companies including Belgian Sky Shops, Bertelsmann, GBL, Pargesa, RTL Group, Societe Civile Cheval Blanc, Société Du Louvre, Taittinger and Transcor.

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“Finance is an art as well as a science. One does not need a Solvay education to realise this. But it takes a first-class environment to translate this into a successful finance programme: a strong academic and scientific background, as well as very interactive teaching and a hands-on approach. Still, rigour is paramount and each student is continuously challenged to bridge experience and theory. All this goes with an excellent atmosphere that makes the course an enjoyable human experience as well."  

Emmanuel Michiels, Financial Advisor, Suez-Tractebel
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