Yaz Gulnur Muradoglu is a Professor of Finance at University of Illinois Springfield. She has worked before as Professor of Finance at Queen Mary University of London, Bayes Business School of City University of London and as director of MSc. Finance for Manchester Business School and as a visiting fellow at Warwick Business School. She was a Fulbright Fellow at the university of Pennsilvania. Gulnur is an expert on behavioural finance. She founded the Behavioural Finance Working Group in 2008 and is its Director and co-chair of its annual conferences since then. She is the Editor in Chief for Review of Behavioural Finance. She has considerable research and consulting experience as a leader in the field. She can discover new problems, reveal opportunities, and innovate original process. Her skills include excellence in strategic thinking, networking, communications and resilience.