PhD Award Ceremony 2026
PhD Award Ceremony 2026
Save the Date!
Wednesday 1 July 2026 | 10:00 am CET
INSEAD and the PhD Programme proudly celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of this year's graduates at the Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. This momentous occasion marks the culmination of their five years of hard work in the PhD Programme and the start of their unwavering commitment to knowledge creation.
The event is exclusive to the graduating students, their family members, faculty, staff and current PhD students.
Programme
Opening of Ceremony
Academic Director, PhD Programme
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
The INSEAD Dutch Alumni Fellowship in Leadership, Diversity and Governance
Introductory Remarks
Guest Speaker
Professor of Economics
The Kurt Björklund Chaired Professor in Innovation and Growth Academic
Director, Economics of Innovation Lab
Award of Diplomas
Graduating Student/s Address
Closing Remarks
Ella Miron-Spektor
Toast to the Graduates
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INSEAD PhD Graduates of 2026
Peipei Cai
Marketing
“From Subscription Choice to Engagement: Managing Customer Relationships in the Subscription Economy”
Dissertation Committee
Paulo Albuquerque (chair)
Maria Ana Vitorino, Rupali Kaul, Dinara Akchurina
(Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto)
Ying Huang
Accounting and Control
“Essays on the Oversight and
Enforcement of Insider Trading”
Dissertation Committee
Daniel Bens (chair)
Elsa Juliani, Thomas Keusch,
François Brochet
(Questrom School of Business,
Boston University)
Jason Kang
Finance
“Essays in Finance”
Dissertation Committee
Bernard Dumas (chair)
Frederico Belo, Massimo Massa, Joël Peress
Nikola Kiprijanovski
Finance
“Essays on Information and Risk in Delegated Asset Management”
Dissertation Committee
Sergei Glebkin (chair)
Frederico Belo, Massimo Massa, Lin Shen
Xinyu Liu
Finance
“Essays in Macro Finance
and Asset Pricing”
Dissertation Committee
Frederico Belo (chair)
Naveen Gondhi, Joël Peress, Boris Vallée
Naja Pape
Entrepreneurship
“The Making of Entrepreneurs:
Essays on the Earliest Stages
of the Entrepreneurial Process”
Dissertation Committee
Balagopal Vissa (chair)
Ella Miron-Spektor, Stefan Thau,
Rembrand M. Koning
(Harvard Business School, Harvard University)
Constantin Prox
Strategy
“Firm Growth and the
Elaboration of Production”
Dissertation Committee
Nathan Furr (co-chair), Phebo Wibbens (co-chair)
Phanish Puranam,
Henning Piezunka (The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania)
Yanbo Song
Organisational Behaviour
“Co-creation with Audiences in
the Cultural Industry”
Dissertation Committee
Spencer H. Harrison (chair)
Sujin Jang, Ella Miron-Spektor,
Jennifer Mueller
(Knauss School of Business,
University of San Diego)
Qiong Xia (In Absentia)
Decision Sciences
“Essays on Human-Algorithm Interaction”
Dissertation Committee
Enrico Diecidue (chair)
Natalia Karelaia, Klaus Wertenbroch,
Sezer Ülkü
(McDonough School of Business,
Georgetown University)
Sherrie YingYing Xue (In Absentia)
Marketing
“Aligning Purchase and
Consumption Decisions
for Individual and Dyadic
Consumer Behaviour”
Dissertation Committee
Pierre Chandon (co-chair), Stephanie Lin (co-chair)
Amitava Chattopadhyay, Peggy Liu
(University of Pittsburgh School of Business)
