Mehdi Mili, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain. Previously he was Head of the Research Department at the Central Bank of Tunisia. He received his Master in Finance from the University of Sfax, Tunisia, in 2002, and his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Sfax, Tunisia and the University of Poitiers, France, in 2008. His research interests include Financial Risk Management, fixed income modeling, Corporate Governance, Banking and structured products. Mehdi is a regular conference speaker and his researches have been published in several international journals (e.g. Emerging Markets Review, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Management and Governance, Review of Accounting and Finance, Economic Modeling, Journal of Asset Management). Also, he edited a book “New Methods in Fixed Income Modeling”.