ESG and performance in public health-care companies: the role of disclosure and director liability

Rim El Khoury is Associate Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at Notre Dame University, Lebanon. She holds a PhD in International Finance from Sogang University, South Korea, in 2009 and a Master’s degree of Business Administration (MBA) with distinction from University of Balamand in 2004. She taught at Hanyang University (South Korea) and at American University of Technology (AUT) before joining NDU, where she lectured investment, fixed income securities and derivatives courses. Also, she worked at World Vision in Lebanon where she assisted in making feasibility studies. She is the recipient of several awards such as Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (2009), Grand winner for Korea Times Magazine Economic Contest (2007) and The Academic Excellence Award from the Korean Government (2006). She published several peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked academic journals. Her research interests include ESG and corporate governance, financial development, financial institutions, corporate finance and banking, volatility modeling and investments and asset pricing.

Nohade Nasrallah is a proactive researcher with 15 years of academic experience. She is now affiliated to the Conservatoire National des Arts and Métiers (Cnam), France at the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l’action (LIRSA). She earned a PhD in Business administration from the Lebanese University in 2018 and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) with high distinction from Notre Dame University in 2008. Dr Nasrallah served as Assistant Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at Notre Dame University, Lebanon. In addition, she taught at the Lebanese University and La Sagesse University, Lebanon. She has extensive professional experience and worked as the chief financial manager for Lebanese SMEs. She earned an online ACCA Certificate in International Auditing (CertIA)-2019. She has published several peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked academic journals. Her research interests include Corporate Governance, ESG, CSR, Digital Transformation, Digital Technology, and Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Finance.

Amina Toumi is Assistant Professor at Liwa College of Technology, Health Information Management (HIM) Program since 2012. She obtained her PhD Thesis (2014) in Bio-Engineering from National School of Engineering of Sfax (Tunisia) with the collaboration of Tokyo University of Medicine (Japan). Prior to this, she received her Master's degree (2007) of Biotechnology Faculty of Pharmacy of Monsatir (Tunisia) and her Engineer’s degree (2004) in Biological Engineering from the National School of Engineering of Sfax (Tunisia). She has extensive teaching and research experience in Health fields. Her articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals. Also, she is serving many journals as reviewer.