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Annette Clark joined the AFA in 2013 and has overseen the Association’s day-to-day operations for more than a decade. In her role, she worked closely with the Program Chair and PhD Session Chair each year to coordinate the AFA Annual Meeting program, helping ensure smooth execution and high-quality programming for thousands of attendees. Over her tenure, she became a central point of contact for members, officers, and committees across the Association.

“Annette has been an extraordinary resource for the AFA and for our members,” said Wei Jiang, President. “Her institutional knowledge and dedication have been invaluable, and we are deeply grateful for everything she has contributed to the Association over the years.”

Join us on July 8 at 12:00 p.m. ET for the 2025 Journal of Finance Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize webinar! This one-hour webinar will feature the First Prize-winning paper, “Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality,”by Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller, and Natasha Sarin.

Hosted by Antoinette Schoar, Editor of the Journal of Finance, and Jacobo Rodríguez of Dimensional Fund Advisors, the webinar will include a presentation by the authors followed by a live Q&A with the hosts and audience.

We hope you’ll join us for this engaging discussion on award-winning finance research. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vSEOitFZR4e6uIn_-3JGTw#/registration

Please submit your paper/poster by July 31.

In 2027, the AFA will again plan to host a PhD Student Poster Session. Travel Grants will be provided to PhD students with a paper in the AFA PhD Student Poster Session to defray the costs of attending our 2027 Annual Meeting, scheduled for January 3-5, 2027 in Washington, D.C.

Find additional details on the Annual Meeting page of the AFA website.

The following authors were selected as the inaugural recipients of the AFA Future of Finance Award for their papers listed below which will be presented in a Special Session at the 2027 AFA Annual Meeting.

• “Financial Regulation and AI: A Faustian Bargain?” by Christopher Clayton and Antonio Coppola
• “Populism and Monetary Policy Transmission” by Nora Lamersdorf
• “The Security Dividend: US Military Power, Dollar Dominance and Global Stability” by Sun Yong Kim
• “Unbalanced Financial Globalization” by Damien Capelle and Bruno Pellegrino

The Future of Finance Award and Special Session recognizes those who have written a paper that is both innovative and creative, and that challenges existing approaches in financial economics. These criteria include novel methodology (including theory and econometrics) and interdisciplinary approaches.

Papers were selected from among those submitted to the AFA Annual Meeting whose authors opted-in for consideration. Papers with an author who received their PhD more than 6 years prior were ineligible for consideration.

Renee Adams and Michelle Lowry were awarded the Denis Gromb Award for Outstanding Citizenship in Financial Economics, awarded by the Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS), in recognition of their founding of AFFECT (Academic Female Finance Committee). AFFECT is a subcommittee of the American Finance Association, which promotes gender equality in academic finance through research, mentoring, and networking. Founded in 2015, the goal was to advance both science and women’s participation in science, and today AFFECT’s initiatives and best practices have influenced many aspects of the profession. The award is named in memory of Denis Gromb, an extraordinary colleague and human being who gave his time and energy to others with exceptional warmth and generosity — and who embodied the spirit of citizenship that this award celebrates.