The Academic Board of the Global Finance Academy Ireland includes six former Presidents of the American Finance Association. Almost all are the editors of the top journals in the field of Finance.
The membership of the GFA's Academic Advisory Board is as follows:
Franklin Allen, Nippon Life Professor of Finance & Economics, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Brennan, Emeritus Professor, Anderson School of Management, UCLA
John J. McConnell, Emanuel Weiler Distinguished Professor of Finance, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
Stewart C. Myers, Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Maureen O'Hara, Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Matthew Spiegel, Professor of Finance, School of Management, Yale University
Hassan Tehranian, Griffith Family Millennium Chair in Finance, Carroll School of Business, Boston College
James C. Van Horne, A.P. Giannini Professor of Banking and Finance, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University