Professor Sudi Sudarsanam (appointed in 2005) is Professor of Finance & Corporate Control at the School of Management, Cranfield University, where he has worked for the last eight years and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Economics and Finance. Prior to this, he was Professor of Finance & Accounting at the Cass Business School in London. He is the author of The Essence of Mergers and Acquisitions and Creating Value from Mergers and Acquisitions: The Challenges and co-editor of Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance in Europe. He is a member of the European Financial Management Association, the Financial Management Association (USA), and the American Finance Association and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, London.