SOAS University of London

School of Finance and Management

School of Finance and Management Staff

Head of School - Dr Ben Hardy

CeFiMS Director - Dr Senija Čaušević

PhD Director - Prof Kemi Yekini

Postgraduate programmes Director - Prof Christine Oughton

Research Director - Dr Orly Levy

Undergraduate programmes Director - Dr Helen Macnaughtan

Learning and Teaching Director - Dr Richard Alexander

Professors

Professor Hong Bo
Professor in Financial Economics
Hong Bo

Firm investment decisions under uncertainty; capital market imperfections; corporate finance; corporate governance; financial economics; China.

Professor Ciaran Driver
Professor in Financial Economics
Ciaran Driver

Theories of corporate governance; testing real-options theory; capital investment studies; policy.

  • Tel: 0207 898 4993
  • Email: cd12@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 540
  • Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 5-6pm or by e-mail appointment
Professor Bassam Fattouh
Professor in Finance and Management for the Middle East
Bassam Fattouh

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
  • Academic Support Hours: By email appointment
Professor Laurence Harris
Professor of Economics
Laurence Harris

Corporate Finance, Ethics and Finance, Central Banking and Macroeconomics.

  • Tel: 020 7898 4051/ 4050
  • Email: lh@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 516
  • Academic Support Hours: By email appointment
Professor Victor Murinde
AXA Professor in Global Finance
Victor Murinde

Mega Trends in Global Finance; Inclusive Finance; Financial Institutions, Markets and Instruments; Financial Modelling & Forecasting

  • Tel: 020 7898 4057
  • Email: v.murinde@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 541
  • Academic Support Hours: By email appointment
Professor Christine Oughton
Professor of Managerial Economics
Christine Oughton

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
  • Academic Support Hours: Monday 2 - 4 or by email appointment
Professor Laixiang Sun
Professor of Chinese Business and Management
Laixiang Sun
Corporate finance and governance, comparative economics, integrated modelling, business management and Chinese economy
Professor Kemi Yekini
Professor of Accounting
Kemi Yekini

Corporate Disclosure Practices from an interdisciplinary perspective, with reference to the transparency and quality of narrative disclosures, earnings quality, corporate governance, auditing, and financial statement fraud.

  • Tel: 020 7898 4545
  • Email: ky5@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 539
  • Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Readers

Dr Ibrahim Abosag
Reader in International Business and Marketing
Ibrahim Abosag

Cross-cultural marketing, international consumer behaviour.

  • Tel: 020 7898 4223
  • Email: ia9@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 584
  • Academic Support Hours: Friday 11 - 1
Dr Senija Causevic
Reader in Marketing
Senija Causevic

Critical management; critical marketing; (contested) heritage marketing, management and interpretation; experiential marketing; destination branding/marketing/representation; post-conflict cultural settings; Ottoman Empire; Balkans; India

  • Tel: 0207 898 4514
  • Email: sc83@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 542
  • Academic Support Hours: By email appointment
Dr Orly Levy
Reader in International Management
Orly Levy
  • Tel: 020 7898 4821
  • Email: ol4@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 529
  • Academic Support Hours: By e-mail appointment
Dr Huan Zou
Reader in International Management
Huan Zou

International entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship, economic development and international business under climate change, internationalisation of emerging economy firms, creative industry and firm growth.

  • Tel: 0207 898 4056
  • Email: h.zou@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 530
  • Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Senior Lecturers

Dr Richard Alexander
Senior Lecturer in Financial Law
Richard Alexander

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

Dr Alberto Asquer
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management
Alberto Asquer

Public policy and management, especially in the political economy of regulation and regulatory reforms, public policy implementation, public management.

  • Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4757
  • Email: aa144@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 517
  • Academic Support Hours: Thursday 1 - 2
Dr Ben Hardy
Head of School
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management
Ben Hardy
  • Tel: 020 7898 4460
  • Email: bh32@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 442
  • Academic Support Hours: Monday 11 - 1
Dr Eunsuk Hong
Senior Lecturer in International Business & Management (China)
Eunsuk Hong

Foreign Direct Investment, Emerging-Market Multinationals, Applied spatial econometrics, Chinese management/economy

  • Tel: 0207 898 4564
  • Email: e.hong@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 527
  • Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Lecturers

Dr Tolulola Lawal
Lecturer in Accounting
Tolulola Lawal

Determinants and capital market implications of accounting information, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance.

  • Tel: 0207 898 4620
  • Email: tl5@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 525
  • Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 1-3

Senior Teaching Fellows

Associate Members

Professor Machiko Nissanke
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.

Professorial Research Associates

Professor Tony Allan
Professorial Research Associate
Tony Allan

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.

Professor Leonardo Becchetti
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Extensive publication record in the areas of corporate finance, corporate social responsibility, public economics, labour economics, and development economics.   President of the Supervising Committee, Etica sgr.

Research Associates

Dr Alessandra Dal Colle
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Dr Dal Colle has a strong and established research record in the field of development finance, with publications in leading journals in the field. She also has relevant professional expertise in banking, including with regard to the third sector.

Dr Inna Krachkovskaya
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Dr Krachkovskaya is an expert in the fields of Central Counterparts and of Agent-Based Simulation Models, which she has applied in her research to the regulation of financial markets and public finance. She also has professional expertise in management and business consulting. She actively contributes to the research cluster on finance in emerging markets in the School of Finance and Management.

Ms Sonja Ruehl
Research Associate
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Financial Sector Development in Japan and Vietnam. Gender Issues in Financing Development. Microfinance Institutions in Vietnam

Research Fellows

Administrative Staff