Prof. Rim El Khoury
Keynote Speaker, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
Dr. Rim Khoury is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Adnan Kassar School of Business at Lebanese American University, Lebanon, with a Ph.D. in International Finance from Sogang University, South Korea. Prior to joining Lebanese American University, she taught at Hanyang University in South Korea and American University of Technology and served as the Finance Discipline Coordinator and the chair of the assessment of the learning at Notre Dame University in Lebanon. She is the recipient of several awards such as the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (2009), Grand winner for Korea Times Magazine Economic Contest (2007), and The Academic Excellence Award from the Korean Government (2006). She is also a reviewer for several prestigious academic journals, including the International Journal of Emerging Markets, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, and Journal of Financial Innovation, among others. She has guest edited special issues for journals such as Strategic Marketing, Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, and Development and Learning in Organizations. She edited books, and she published several peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked academic journals such as Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Borsa Istanbul Review, Small Business Economics.