Dr. Vasilya has a Ph.D. in Finance from the International School of Management, France. Her thesis title is “Cross-Sectional Analysis of Herd Behavior in GCC Stock Markets”. She has an MBA in Financial Services from Tashkent Technical University, Uzbekistan, with a thesis on “Specifics of Financial Leasing Management in Uzbekistan”.  She took her B.S. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA; she also has a CFA (Certified Financial Analyst) Candidacy.  She passed Level 2 and she is a Certified Financial Risk Management (FRM).  She was a Senior Instructor at the Australian College of Kuwait Business Department and a lecturer, at the Gulf University for Science & Technology, Kuwait. She has extensive experience teaching Corporate Finance, Fixed Income Security Analysis, Equity Valuation, Financial Statement Analysis.