Pantisa Pavabutr is currently Associate Professor of finance at Thammasat Business School. Pantisa’s specialization and research interest is in empirical asset pricing and market microstructure. Before joining the doctoral programme at the University of Texas at Austin, Pantisa was involved in the equity research for Securities One and Morgan Stanley Asia. She has been visiting research fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Development Bank of Japan, Tokyo and is visiting professor at ESCP, Paris.