B. Espen Eckbo, Tuck Centennial Professor of Finance and Founding Center Director. After graduating from the University of Rochester with a PhD (1981), he was a professor at the University of British Columbia (1981-1996) and at the Stockholm School of Economics (1996-1998) before joining the Tuck faculty (1998-present). Professor Eckbo has also held visiting professorships teaching PhD and MBA students at MIT, UCLA, and Vanderbilt University. He has performed award-winning research on corporate finance and governance-including the prestigious Batterymarch Fellowship in 1997. He is also a member of the editorial boards of leading scholarly journals and is currently a fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. Professor Eckbo's business experience spans advisory services, expert witness testimony in cases involving corporate governance and insider trading, board membership at IndexSpar, and chairing the investment committee of the University of Oslo endowment fund.

Karin S. Thorburn is Associate Professor of Finance and Associate Director of the Center for Corporate Governance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a PhD in financial economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. Professor Thorburn's research focuses on takeovers, bankruptcy, corporate restructuring, and corporate governance. Her work has been published in the top international academic finance journals, including Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Her publications deal with bidding strategies in merger and acquisitions and the efficiency of mandatory bankruptcy auctions. She is a member of the academic advisory council to the Turnaround Management Association, a research affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, and associate editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance. Prior to her academic career, Professor Thorburn held various positions within the ABB Financial Services Group. She has been an advisor to several initial public offerings and corporate restructuring transactions.

Rafael La Porta is Professor of Finance at the Tuck School and a center research fellow. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard in 1994 and was on the Harvard faculty from that time until he joined Tuck in 2003. Professor La Porta's research has focused on issues of investor protection and corporate governance across the world, an area known as "law and finance." He is an expert on cross-country differences in laws and practice pertaining to investor protection and how those differences cause economies, stock markets, and firms' financing practices to vary. Professor La Porta teaches the core Corporate Finance course and an elective course in International Corporate Finance.

Beth L. Perkins, Center Administrator. She started with Tuck in August 2005 after leaving a position as the Executive Assistant to the CFO at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She currently holds a bachelor's degree in Education with a concentration in exercise and sport science from the University of Vermont and is currently working on an MBA through Plymouth State University. Prior to her position as Executive Assistant, Beth spent 2 years with the Department of Occupational Medicine at DHMC as a Sr. Clinical Secretary and Administrative Assistant to the Chair of the Department. Beth is also an assistant Track & Field Coach at Lebanon High School, as well as a part-time Fitness Trainer at the CCBA-Witherell Center.

Giulia Paone, the Lindenauer Research Scholar at the Center for Corporate Governance, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Giulia holds a Juris Doctor Degree (Laurea in Giurisprudenza), cum laude, from the LUISS University of Rome, Italy, where her thesis work dealt with European Company Law and the European Union`s response to questions raised by the Enron case in areas of accounting, auditing and corporate governance. She joined the Center for Corporate Governance in September 2005 after an internship at the European Commission (Directorate General Internal Market and Services - Company Law, Corporate Governance and Financial Crime Unit), where she mainly took part in the work of the team responsible for the drafting of the Shareholder Rights Directive. Giulia’s research at Tuck’s Center for Corporate Governance deals with key corporate governance issues (board composition and effectiveness, independence of directors, executive compensation, shareholder rights), and she is currently working on a large-scale project identifying key obstacles to shareholder voting around the world.