DeFiMS Staff
Head of Department
Director of Distance Learning
Deputy Director of Distance Learning
Head of Distance Learning Administration
Postgraduate Admissions Tutor
Dr Damian Tobin (term 1) and Dr Huan Zou (term 2)
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
PhD Tutor
Professors
Robert F Ash
Professor of Economics with reference to China and Taiwan
China’s economic development in the 20th and 21st centuries (especially agricultural and rural change, demographic and employment issues, consumption and living standards); evolution of ‘Greater China’; economic development of Taiwan and cross-Strait economic relations - Tel: 020 7898 4525
- Email: ra2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 267
- Office Hours: By appointment
Ciaran Driver
Professor in Financial Economics
Theories of corporate governance; testing real-options theory; capital investment studies; policy.
- Tel: 0207 898 4993
- Email: cd12@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 540
- Office Hours: Thursday 2-3pm
Bassam Fattouh
Professor in Finance and Management for the Middle East
Management in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), managerial systems and management of renewable and non-renewable resources in the Middle East (MSc), and Islamic banking and finance.
- Tel: 020 7898 4053
- Email: bf11@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 526
- Office Hours: By Appointment
Laurence Harris
Professor of Economics
Corporate Finance, Ethics and Finance, Central Banking and Macroeconomics.
- Tel: 020 7898 4051/ 4050
- Email: lh@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 516
- Office Hours: Monday 2-3pm
Christine Oughton
Professor of Managerial Economics, Head of Department
Industrial organisation and policy, innovation, sustainable development and corporate governance, including the governance and regulation of sport
- Tel: 020 7898 4410
- Email: co12@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 532
- Office Hours: Wednesday 3-5pm
Pasquale Scaramozzino
Professor of Economics
Macroeconomics; fiscal policy; applied econometrics - Tel: 020 7898 4055
- Email: ps6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 528
- Office Hours: By appointment
Laixiang Sun
Professor of Chinese Business and Management
Corporate finance and governance, comparative economics, integrated modelling, business management and Chinese economy - Tel: 020 7898 4821
- Email: ls28@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 529
- On Sabbatical:On sabbatical leave 2012/13
Senior Lecturers
Hong Bo
Senior Lecturer in Financial Economics
Firm investment decisions under uncertainty; capital market imperfections; corporate finance; corporate governance; financial economics; China.
- Tel: 020 7898 4528
- Email: hb22@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 543
- Office Hours: Monday 11-1pm
Norman Flynn
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management; Director, CeFiMS
Management in government, government-society relationships, performance management.
- Tel: 020 7898 4091
- Email: nf17@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 544
Matthew Haigh
Senior Lecturer in Accounting
Postcolonial finance, semiotics, sustainability
- Tel: 0207 898 4145
- Email: mh92@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 548
- Office Hours: Monday 11-1pm
Yothin Jinjarak
Reader in Banking & Finance
International economics, macroeconomics, financial economics.
- Tel: 0207 898 4352
- Email: yj5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 534
- Office Hours: Tuesday 12-1.30pm
Richard Mead
Senior Lecturer in International Management
Cross-cultural understandings within and dimensions of international management.
- Tel: 020 7898 4835
- Email: rm14@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 525
- Office Hours: Drop in or By Appointment
Federico Mucciarelli
Reader in Financial Law
Takeover regulation; corporate and insolvency law; international corporate law and freedom of establishment.
- Tel: 0207 898 4545
- Email: fm11@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 550
- Office Hours: By appointment
Mark Neal
Senior Lecturer in International Business & Management (MENA)
Academic Programme Director: International Management (Middle East and North Africa)
Management and leadership in the Middle East and South East Asia. Corruption. Tourism. Business education and poverty reduction. Sustainable development in MENA and SE Asia.
- Tel: 020 7898 4778 / 07517670054
- Email: mn12@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 566
- Office Hours: Thursday 12-2pm
Yoshikatsu Shinozawa
Senior Lecturer in Financial Studies
Dr Shinozawa's research interests lie in asset management firms and their products. Recently he has developed a special interest in the areas of corporate governance, and the banking industry in Japan.
- Tel: 020 7898 4084
- Email: ys6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 556
- Office Hours: Monday 4-6pm
Huan Zou
Senior Lecturer in International Management
International market entry strategies; international acquisitions; international entrepreneurship; knowledge learning; venture capitals in emerging markets.
- Tel: 0207 898 4056
- Email: h.zou@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 530
- Office Hours: Thursday 11-12pm
Lecturers
Richard Alexander
Lecturer in Financial Law
Financial Services Law and regulation, control of economic crime, human rights law (especially European Convention on Human Rights – measures taken to fight organised and economic crime and terrorism), European Union Law
- Tel: 020 7898 4644
- Email: ra30@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 553
- Office Hours: Wednesday 3-5pm
Alberto Asquer
Public policy and management, especially in the political economy of regulation and regulatory reforms, public policy implementation, public management.
- Email: aa144@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 442
Senija Causevic
Lecturer in Marketing
Critical management; critical marketing; (contested) heritage marketing, management and interpretation; experiential marketing; destination branding/marketing/representation; post-conflict cultural settings; Ottoman Empire; India
- Tel: 0207 898 4514
- Email: sc83@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 549
- Office Hours: Friday 11-1pm
Alberto Feduzi
Lecturer in Strategy
Strategic and organizational decision making; Project management under high uncertainty; Behavioural economics and the behavioural foundations of strategy; the economics of the welfare state.
- Email: af19@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 442
- Office Hours: Wednesday 2-3pm
Eunsuk Hong
Lecturer in International Business & Management (China)
Foreign Direct Investment, Emerging-Market Multinationals, Applied spatial econometrics, Chinese management/economy
- Tel: 0207 898 4564
- Email: e.hong@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 527
- Office Hours: By appointment
Tolulola Lawal
Lecturer in Accounting
Determinants and capital market implications of accounting information, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance.
- Tel: 0207 898 4620
- Email: tl5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 584
- Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4pm
Helen Macnaughtan
Lecturer in International Business and Management (Japan), Undergraduate Admissions tutor
Employment, human resource management, gender and economic development in Japan.
- Tel: 020 7898 4530
- Email: hm39@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 546
- Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4pm
Damian Tobin
Lecturer in Chinese Business and Management
The reform of corporate governance practices in China’s state-owned enterprises with particular reference to the banking, oil and telecommunications sectors; the size of China’s state sector; pre-reform economic relations between Hong Kong and Mainland China; and global production chains.
- Tel: 020 7898 4058
- Email: dt29@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 555
- Office Hours: Friday 1.30 - 3.30pm
Sonja Ruehl
Fellow in Financial and Management Studies; Deputy Director, CeFiMS
Financial Sector Development in Japan and Vietnam. Gender Issues in Financing Development. Microfinance Institutions in Vietnam - Tel: 020 7898 4057
- Email: sr2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 542
- Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5pm
Senior Teaching Fellows
Apostolos Gkoutzinis
Senior Teaching Fellow
Internet banking and e-commerce in financial services in Greece, Germany, France and EU in general; the use of the internet for facilitating free trade in financial services - Tel: 020 7898 4095
- Email: ag40@soas.ac.uk
Danny Leiwy
Senior Teaching Fellow
International accounting standards and UK taxation
- Email: dl27@soas.ac.uk
Teaching Fellows
Jing Bian
Teaching Fellow
Financial Regulation, International Economic Law, Chinese Law, Corporate Governance, Cross-border Mergers and Aquisitions
- Email: jb72@soas.ac.uk
Laura El-Katiri
Teaching Fellow
Energy policy, oil, natural gas, electricity, economic development and diversification, Middle East, GCC economies, Iran.
- Email: le6@soas.ac.uk
Yoshiko Jones
Teaching Fellow
Ms Jones is a Teaching Fellow within the Department of Financial and Management Studies. She also runs The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese. Her specialist field is Keigo (Japanese Formal Expressions).
- Email: yj1@soas.ac.uk
Associate Members
Dafydd Fell
Reader in Taiwan Studies (Politics)
Contemporary Taiwanese Politics: Elections, Parties, Democratization - Tel: 020 7898 4206
- Email: df2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 201
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 2pm-3pm and by appointment
Nicholas H D Foster
Comparative commercial and comparative corporate law, with special reference to Islamic law and the laws of the Middle East, in particular the UAE; Islamic Finance. - Tel: 020 7898 4666
- Email: nf4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 225
- Office Hours: 4.30 - 6.30 Wednesday
Sanzhu Zhu
Chinese law; comparative commercial and corporate law with reference to China; legal aspects of Chinese financial and futures markets; civil procedure and dispute resolution in China, particularly securities disputes.
- Tel: 020 7898 4667
- Email: sz8@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 240
- Office Hours: Wednesday by apppointment, Thursday 1:30 to 2:30
Machiko Nissanke
North-South Economic relations, adjustment and development, finance and development, international trade and finance, and comparative economics policy studies in Asia and Africa. Teaching interests include open economy macroeconomics, international trade and finance and financial economics. Africa and Asia. - Tel: 020 7898 4542
- Email: mn2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 282
- Office Hours: By appointment only
Visiting Professors
Professorial Research Associates
Tony Allan
Professorial Research Associate
Analysis of water resources in semi-arid regions and the role of global systems in ameliorating local and regional water deficits. Established the concept of Virtual Water. Was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize in 2008 in recognition of his contribution to water science.
- Email: ta1@soas.ac.uk
Research Associates
Administrative Staff
Matthew Jaggar
Faculty Officer (Academic Support)
- Tel: 020 7898 4438
- Email: mj13@soas.ac.uk
- Room: R201
Anya Kropfitsch
Faculty Officer (Student Support)
- Tel: 020 7898 4487
- Email: ak84@soas.ac.uk
- Room: R201
