Samia Belaounia holds a PhD in management from Paris-Dauphine University. Associate Professor at Neoma Business School since 2001, she has more than 10 years of experience in Executive Education, addressing non-specialists but also financial managers.  Samia's main teaching areas are Financial analysis, Financial Management and Corporate valuation.  Her research focuses on the relationship between firm internationalization and capital structure, and how institutional contingencies affect this relationship. This research question is thus at the crossroads of corporate finance and international management. She is also interested in the effect of corporate governance on firm performance, and more specifically in how female representation on the board of directors and the management team affects firm value. Samia is the author of a recently published book on financial analysis and has published articles in, notably, the International Business Review and Management International (HEC Montréal).