Samer Saade is an Associate Professor of finance and the Chairperson of the Finance and Accounting Department. Prior to joining IMT Dubai, Samer was on the faculty of the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), the University of Grenoble (France), and the EMLYON Business School (France). He has more than 18 years of international teaching experience in finance and investments at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He ran numerous executive education trainings in Europe and the Middle East. He published several research papers in prestigious internationally recognized journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, The British Journal of Management, The Journal of Financial Stability, Research in International Business and Finance, and Corporate Governance: An International Review. His research interests are in corporate and entrepreneurial finance, private equity and venture capital, and corporate governance. Samer serves as a consultant for a number of clients and is a very active referee for several journals, an organization committee member for finance associations and an expert-referee for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

1. Marc Goergen, Samer Saade, and Salim Chahine, 2022. Foreign Venture Capitalists and Access to Foreign Research: The Case of US Initial Public Offerings, Special issue on Entrepreneurial Finance of the British Journal of Management, 33 (1), 160-180 (ABDC A, SCOPUS Elite Q1, Impact factor: 7.45, SJR Q1 2.047). https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12451
2. Samer Saade, Salim Chahine, and Mai Daher, 2021. Doing Good in Periods of High Uncertainty: Economic Policy Uncertainty, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Analyst Forecast Error, Special issue on Economic and Policy Uncertainty of the Journal of Financial Stability, 56, 1-21. (ABDC A, SCOPUS Q1, Impact factor: 3.554, SJR Q1 1.657). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2021.100919
3. Salim Chahine, Samer Saade, and Marc Goergen, 2019. Foreign Business Activities, Foreignness of the VC Syndicate, and IPO Performance, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 43 (4), 947-973 (ABDC A*, SCOPUS Elite Q1, Impact factor: 10.75, SJR Q1 5.07). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1042258718757503
4. Samer Saade, 2015. Investor Sentiment and the Underperformance of Technology Firms Initial Public Offerings, Research in International Business and Finance, 34 (2), 205-232 (ABDC B, SCOPUS Q2, Impact Factor: 6.143, SJR Q1 0.65). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0275531915000100
5. Salim Chahine and Samer Saade, 2011. Shareholders' Rights and the Effect of the Origin of Venture Capital Firms on the Underpricing of US IPOs, Corporate Governance: An International Review, 19 (6), 601-621 (ABDC A, SCOPUS Q1, Impact factor: 2.294, SJR Q1 1.43). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8683.2011.00857.x

1. Corporate Finance and Investments
2. Venture Capital and Private Equity
3. Corporate Governance

1. Foreign Business Activities, Foreignness of the VC Syndicate, and IPO Performance

• Proceedings of The International Finance and Banking Society – Corporate Finance Conference, Saïd Business School University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2015.
• Invited presentation at Cardiff University, United Kingdom, 2016 o Invited presentation at CUNEF Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros, Spain, 2015
• Invited presentation at the University of Oviedo, Spain, 2015 o Invited presentation at Coventry University, United Kingdom, 2015

2. Investor sentiment and the underperformance of US technology IPOs o Proceedings of the Midwest Finance Association Annual Conference, Orlando, United States, 2013
3. Investor sentiment and the underperformance of initial public offerings o Proceedings of the Asian Finance Association International conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 2012

• Accepted presentation at the International conference of the Academy of Behavioral Finance and Economics, New York University-Poly, United States, 2012

4. The link between the underpricing and the long-run underperformance of IPO shares: a behavioral perspective

• Proceedings of the Eastern Finance Association Annual Conference, Savanah, United States, April, 2011 o Accepted presentation at the Midwest Finance Association 2011 Conference

5. The Effect of the Origin of Venture Capital Firms on IPO Underpricing

• Proceedings of the Special Issue Conference on Private Equity – Corporate Governance: An International Review, State University of New York, New York, United States, 2010

• Consultant for various European and Middle Easter clients
• Advisor for academic institutions
• Referee for a large number of internationally recognized journals in finance
• Referee for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• Program committee member for the Eastern Finance Association (USA)