SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Assistant Professor of Finance Gennaro Bernil has won the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize, becoming the only Singapore-based researcher on this year’s list of 10 winners. Assistant Professor Bernile clinched a prize in the Management category for his research on the influence of early-life disasters on the behaviour of chief executive officers, in which he found that many business leaders who experienced natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, or wildfires, developed a fondness for risk-taking in their childhood, if the disasters had no dire personal consequences for them