Chincarini, Ludwig: - Ludwig B. Chincarini, CFA, PhD, is professor of Finance in the School of Management at the University of San Francisco and Director of Quantitative Strategies for United States Commodity Fund Investments. As a member of the academic council of Index IQ, he was instrumental in creating and developing some of the newest alternative ETFs. Chincarini was on the academic council of Future Advisor, one of the early Robo-Advisor firms, which was bought by Blackrock in 2015. Chincarini also co-developed the S&P 500 equal-weight ETF and index and helped build one of the first basket trading firms with automated procedures to manage hundreds of quant portfolios. He received his PhD from MIT.

Daehwan Kim, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Economics at Konkuk University, South Korea. Previously, he taught at American University in Bulgaria, Ewha Womans University School of Public Policy, Korea University, Aalto University Executive Program, NUCB Business School in Japan, and Nizhny Novgorod State University in Russia. He worked for FOLIO Investing as a financial economist and for First Private Investment Management in Frankfurt as a senior portfolio manager, and he has advised several hedge funds and investment companies based in East Asia. He received his PhD from Harvard.