Rim El Khoury is a Associate Professor of Finance at Lebanese American University Lebanon. She holds a PhD in International Finance from Sogang University South Korea in 2009.She is the recipient of several awards such as the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (2009) the Academic Excellence Award from the Korean Government (2006). She has guest edited special issues for Strategic Marketing Competitiveness Review Higher Education Skills and Work-Based Learning and Development and Learning on Organizations. She is co-editing some books. She published several papers in peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked academic journals including Applied Economic Letters Journal of Cleaner Production PLOs One Bursa Istanbul Review Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investments etc.. Dr. Nohade Nasrallah is an associate professor at EM Strasbourg LaRGE Research center France. She earned her Ph.D. in Business administration from the Lebanese University in 2018 and a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) with high distinction from Notre Dame University in 2008. She served as an Assistant Professor of Accounting & Finance at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at Notre Dame University Lebanon. She taught at the Lebanese University and La Sagesse University Lebanon. She has extensive professional experience and worked as the financial manager for Lebanese SMEs. She has published several peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked academic journals. Her research interests include Sustainability (Corporate Governance ESG CSR Green Finance Digital Transformation Digital Technology) Bibliometric and High-Frequency trading.