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Project Co-Editors (click name for biographical information) Professor Jennifer Hill Professor of Corporate Law Sydney Law School and ECGI Research Member Professor Randall Thomas John S. Beasley Professor of Law and Business Vanderbilt University Law School and Owen School of Management and ECGI Research Member Invited authors and topics (click name for biographical information) Professor Stephen Bainbridge William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law UCLA School of Law, USA Topic: Managerial power theory Professor Marco Becht Professor of Finance and Economics Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium and ECGI Research Member Topic: Hedge fund shareholder activism in Europe (with Julian Franks) Professor Massimo Belcredi Professor of Corporate Finance Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy Topic: Italian Shareholder Power (with Luca Enriques) Professor Margaret Blair Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise Vanderbilt Law School, USA and ECGI Research Member Topic: Team production theory Professor John Coates John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics Harvard Law School, USA and ECGI Research Member Topic: Institutional Investor Evolution Professor James Cox Brainerd Currie Professor of Law Duke Law, USA Topic: US shareholder litigation Professor Paul Davies Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK and ECGI Research Member Topic: Shareholder Power in the UK Professor Paul Edelman Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Law Vanderbilt Law School, USA Topic: Shareholder Voting (with Randall Thomas) Professor Luca Enriques Professor, Department of Law LUISS, Italy and ECGI Research Member Topic: Italian Shareholder Power (with Massimo Belcredi) Professor Guido Ferrarini Professor of Business Law and Capital Markets Law University of Genoa, Italy and ECGI Research Member Topic: Independent Directors and Control shareholders (with Marilena Filippelli) Professor Fabrizio Ferri Associate Professor Columbia Business School, USA Topic: Say on Pay Dr Marilena Filippelli Assistant Professor of Business Law School of Economic and Management Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Topic: Independent Directors and Control shareholders (with Guido Ferrarini) Professor Julian Franks Professor of Finance London Business School, UK and ECGI Research Member Topic: Hedge fund shareholder activism in Europe (with Marco Becht) Professor George Geis Vice Dean, William S. Potter Professor of Law University of Virginia Law School, USA Topic: Indian Shareholder Power Professor Ronald Gilson Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business Stanford Law School, USA and ECGI Research Member Topic: Agency Capitalism (with Jeffrey Gordon) Professor Jeffrey Gordon Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership Columbia Law School, USA and ECGI Research Member Topic: Agency Capitalism (with Ronald Gilson) Dr Érica Gorga Associate Research Scholar in Law and the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Executive Director Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, USA Topic: Brazilian Shareholders Professor Jennifer Hill Professor of Corporate Law Sydney Law School, Australia and ECGI Research Member Topic: Images of the shareholder Professor Luh Luh Lan Associate Professor, Faculty of Law National University of Singapore, Singapore Topic: Shareholder power in Singapore (with Umakanth Varottil) Professor Guo Li Professor Peking University Law School, China Topic: Shareholder power in China (with Gilbert Kang Hua Heng) Professor Ronald Masulis Scientia Professor in Finance School of Banking and Finance, Australian School of Business, Australia and ECGI Research Member Topic: Shareholders in Family Controlled business groups Professor Colin Mayer Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK and ECGI Research Member Topic: Committed shareholders Professor Frank Partnoy George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance; Co-Director, Center for Corporate and Securities Law University of San Diego School of Law, USA Topic: Hedge fund activism in the US Ms Elena Pikulina PhD candidate Tilburg University, The Netherkands Topic: Powerful shareholders and M&A (with Luc Renneboog) Professor Dan Puchniak Associate Professor National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, Singapore Topic: Shareholder litigation in Asia Professor Luc Renneboog Professor of Corporate Finance Tilburg University, The Netherlands and ECGI Research Member Topic: Powerful shareholders and M&A (with Elena Pikulina) Professor Wolf-Georg Ringe Professor of International Commercial Law Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Topic: German Shareholders Professor Zenichi Shishido Professor Hitotsubashi University, Japan Topic: Japanese Shareholder Power Professor Matthias Siems Professor of Commercial Law Durham University, UK Topic: Leximetric perspective on shareholder power Professor Kon Sik Kim Professor Seoul National University (SNU), Korea Topic: Korean shareholders Professor Randall Thomas John S. Beasley Professor of Law and Business Vanderbilt Law School and Owen School of Management, USA and ECGI Research Member Topic: Shareholder Voting (with Paul Edelman) Professor Robert Thompson Peter P. Weidenbruch, Jr. Professor of Business Law Georgetown Law, USA Topic: Proper role of shareholders Dr Umakanth Varottil Assistant Professor NUS Law, Singapore Topic: Shareholder power in Singapore (with Luh Luh Lan) Professor Harwell Wells Associate Professor of Law Temple University Beasley School of Law, USA Topic: Historical Perspective on shareholder power