Robert Faff (FASSA) is Research Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, Emeritus Professor at UQ and Honorary Adjunct Professor at Bond University. He has an international reputation in empirical finance research: securing 15 Australian Research Council grants (funding exceeding $4 million); 360+ refereed journal publications – 48 x A* (ABDC); career citations 23,000+ (Google Scholar); with a h-index of 74. His particular passion is nurturing the career trajectories of early career researchers. Robert has supervised almost 50 PhD students to successful completion and examined more than 50 PhD dissertations. Building on a 40-year+ academic career, his signature focus is “Pitching Research”[https://ssrn.com/abstract=2462059], with worldwide penetration signalled by: (a) 25,000+ SSRN downloads; (b) 400+ pitching talks/events; (c) at 37Australian universities; and (d) spanning 56 different countries. Further, he is the Founder & President of the InSPiR2eS research network [https://pitchingresearch.com/inspir2es-network/], a globally-facing research network primarily aimed at research training and capacity building, resting on a foundation theme of responsible science. Robert is also the creator of the InSPiR2eS Centre for Responsible Science [https://pitchingresearch.com/ic4rs/]. In addition, Robert is current Editor-in-Chief of Pacific-Basin Finance Journal; formerly: Editor of Accounting and Finance (2002-2011) and Associate Editor of several other leading journals including Abacus and Australian Journal of Management.