Three Named as 2025 Emerging Scholars

The Community Banking Research Conference committee is pleased to announce 2025 Emerging Scholars:
- Gene Kang, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley
- Anthony Waikel, University of Georgia
- Ruinan Liu, McMaster University
The Emerging Scholars program is designed to offer Ph.D. students who are considering or working on a dissertation on a banking-related topic the opportunity to fully participate in the Community Banking Research Conference. The program was first introduced as part of the third annual conference held in 2015.