EFA Governance
The European Finance Association (EFA) is a registered international non-profit organization with scientific and educational objectives, governed by the dispositions of Title III of the Belgian law of 27 June 1921 pertaining to non-profit organizations, international non-profit organizations, and foundations, as published in the Annexes of the official public registry organ: Le Moniteur belge.
The aim of the Association is to provide a professional association to academics and practitioners interested in the fields of finance and economics and its applications, with the purpose of supporting, disseminating and stimulating high quality research in the field in Europe. In particular. the association shall serve as a meeting and communication forum for its members resident in Europe and elsewhere. It will offer a network for the exchange of knowledge on an international level and provide a framework allowing for a better dissemination of information on research and teaching in finance and economics.
Executive Committee
The Association is administered by an Executive Committee of 12-18 members which includes the President, Vice-President, the Editor of the Journal of the Association, the Executive Secretary, the Chairperson plus 9 Directors elected at large by the General Assembly.
» Click here to find out who is currently in the Executive Committee.
» Click here for a list of current and previous Presidents and Chairpersons.
General Assembly
The General Assembly holds full authority and decision power to take all the actions needed to achieve the objectives of the Association. The General Assembly of the members of the Association is held annually on a date and at a venue determined by the Executive Committee.
» Click here for more information about recent General Assemblies.
Executive Secretary
The Executive Secretary is based in Brussels. The EFA Secretariat (the Association's headquarters) is located at: 2nd floor Passage du Nord 19, 1000 Brussels, Belgium – in the offices of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM).
Click here to see contact details for the Executive Secretary.
Statutes
To read the complete text and Articles of the latest version, download the EFA Statutes [362 KB]
The proposed modifications to the EFA Statutes (ratified at the 2009 EFA General Assembly) were filed with a notary public in Brussels in February 2010. The EFA Statutes were officially published in Le Moniteur Belge and have been in effect since 31 May 2010.
Registered address, company number and VAT number
The European Finance Association (EFA) is an international non-profit organization non-profit organization (INPO / AISBL / IVZW) registered in Belgium at the following address: European Finance Association, Passage du Nord 19, 2e, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
The Company Number RPM/RPR 0864.639.588.
The VAT number is BE 0864.639.588.
The EFA bank account is with KBC Bank; the account number is IBAN: BE40 4245 5333 1163; SWIFT code: KREDBEBB .
EFA News
»New RF Editors Daniel Paravisini and Chris Parsons to start a 3 year term as Editors of the Review of Finance in January 2021.
» EFA Job Market: to view Jobs or to post Job Openings
» View Calls for Papers and forthcoming events
» New RF Associate Editors Brian Melzer, Jacopo Ponticelli and Rick Townsend to start as Associate Editors of Review of Finance in January 2021.
» New Vice-President Elena Carletti has been elected Vice-President of EFA and will be Program Chair of the next EFA annual conference (EFA 2021), to be held in Milan in August 2021. She will become President in 2022.
» New Vice-President Elect Xavier Vives has been elected Vice-President Elect of EFA and will also be Program Chair of the EFA 2022 to be held in Barcelona in August 2022.
» New Directors Ulf Axelson, Lubos Pastor & Ivo Welch have been elected Directors of EFA from January 1st 2021 for 3 year term.
» 47th Annual Meeting EFA 2020 was a great success with more than 2,800 registered participants. Thanks to Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki for hosting our first virtual conference.
» 48th Annual Meeting Call for Papers for EFA 2021 is closed. https://efa2021.efa-meetings.org/
» 49th Annual Meeting
Barcelona, Spain
August 24-27, 2022
IESE Business School, University of Navarra
» Call for Papers EFA Doctoral Tutorial & Workshop with David Yermack on digital currency and blockchain. Deadline February 15, 2021.
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