Research interests – Empirical Corporate Finance: board of directors, institutional ownership, natural capital, biodiversity, network analyses.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor of Finance (Tenure Track) at SKEMA Business School, Lille campus, France (August 2024 – present)
Associate, Centre for Endowment Asset Management, at Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS), University of Cambridge, UK (October 2024 – present)
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS), University of Cambridge, UK (October 2022 – August 2024)
Teaching Assistant at EDHEC Business School, France (September 2019 – September 2022)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Finance at EDHEC Business School, France (September 2019 – September 2022- 3 Years program), Advisor: Prof. G. Gianfrate, external examiner: Prof. N. Malenko.
Advanced Master in Economics and Finance (IMEF) at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy (September 2008 – July 2009)
Master of Science in Statistics, Economics and Finance at Universita’ degli Studi di Padova, Italy (February 2006 – October 2008)
Bachelor of Science in Statistics, Economics and Finance at Universita’ degli Studi di Padova, Italy (September 2002 – February 2006)

WORKING PAPERS

Overboarded – solo authored
Natural, Social and Financial Capitals – with O. Karakaş (University of Cambridge, Judge Business School) and A. Widmaier (University of Cambridge)
Corporate Governance Networks and Financial Performance – solo authored
Toxic Chemicals Governance – solo authored
Flora, Fauna, and Finance: Assessing Biodiversity Risk in Investment Portfolios – with A. Balogh, W. Geary, B. Wintle (University of Melbourne), S. Bekessy (RMIT University), M. Burgman (University of Hawaii), H. Layman (FTSE Russell) and O. Karakaş (University of Cambridge, Judge Business School)

WORK IN PROGRESS

Law and Bodiversity: an International Comparison – with O. Karakaş (University of Cambridge, Judge Business School)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Corporate Finance (1st year Master) – SKEMA Business School
Financial Accounting (1st year Bachelor) – SKEMA Business School
Corporate Financial Management (1st year Master) – SKEMA Business School
Portfolio Construction Theory (1st year Master M1, Financial Economics track, 300 students): tutorials, 48 hours per year. Student evaluations for my part of the course: 4.2/5 – EDHEC Business School, France (Semester 1: 2019/2020/2021)
Data Visualization (2nd year Master M2, Financial Engineering track): Tableau tutorials – EDHEC Business School, France (Semester 2: 2021)
Portfolio Management (2nd year Master M2): development of the course, office hours and Q&A – EDHEC Business School, France (Summer 2022)

CONFERENCES

2025 Presentations: French Inter Business School Workshop in Finance
2025 Discussions: BEC 2025 (7th Baltic Economic Conference), EFA2025
2024 Seminars: Aalto University School of Business, SKEMA Business School, University of Padova, ESCP Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School;
2023 Presentations: 36th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference; Annual International Corporate Governance Society Conference (ICGS23); Women and Finance Academic Workshop (Paris 1, Sorbonne); Research Symposium in Finance and Economics (RSFE 23), Winner of the “Best Research Paper Award in Finance”; NFI-Oxford Conference on Common Ownership, Experimental IO and Governance; FMCG23 conference; 16th Financial Risks International Forum; Newton Investment Management seminar; BlackRock seminar; Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance – seminar; AFA 2023 – PhD poster session;
2023 Discussions: 36th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference; HEC-HKUST Workshop on Impact and Sustainable Finance; Nova SBE Final Countdown; Research Symposium in Finance and Economics (RSFE 23); FMCG23 conference; 2023 FMA Consortium on Asset Management;
2022 Presentations: Owners as Strategists Conference; EDHEC PhD FORUM; EDHEC PhD Research seminar series; IGPRC2022 – semifinals; FMCG22 conference;
2021 Presentations: EDHEC PhD Research seminar series;

SUMMER SCHOOLS

ESTIMATE – Early Summer Tutorial in Modern Applied Tools of Econometric, Department of Economics at Michigan State University June 2021 Econometrics courses (advanced Ph.D. level, instructors: Prof. Jeff Wooldridge and Prof. Tim Vogelsang)

OTHER ACADEMIC SERVICE

Ad Hoc Referee for the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance: An International Review, International Review of Financial Analysis
ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), Academic member
2026 EFA Program Committee, 2026 FMA European Conference Program Committee, 2025 EFA Local Scientific Committee, 2024 Research Symposium on Finance and Economics (RSFE) Scientific Committee, 2023 FMA Annual Meeting Program Committee
Tutor @ Bloomberg Challenge: supervision of portfolio strategies implementations using Bloomberg terminals, EDHEC Business School, France
Tutor @ TALOS Finance Club – EDHEC Master students association: supervision of a sport forecasting model for 2022 FIFA World Cup, EDHEC Business School, France
Project manager across M.Sc. and MBA programs @ Student Data Viz Challenge: European data viz competition, in partnership with Tableau, UNICEF, Mazars, EDHEC Business School, France

SKILLS

Programming: Proficient in R, Matlab, Stata; use of E-views, Lisrel, MySQL,
Databases: experience with large economical and financial databases, especially ORBIS, BoardEx, Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), CRSP, Compustat, MSCI IVA ESG ratings, FactSet and Thomson Reuters Datastream
Software: LATEX, Microsoft Office, Tableau, OneStream, MS Business Objects, AS400, Brio, Cognos, IMPC, RMPC, SAP BW.
Languages: English (Fluent), Italian (Native), Chinese (Beginner)

Annalisa Tonetto

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