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 Reinhard Bachmann

Professor of International Management

Strategic Management, Organizational Analysis and Comparative Management

Tel: 020 7898 4489
Email: r.bachmann@soas.ac.uk
Room: 531
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Professor Hong Bo

Professor 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
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Professor 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
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 5-6pm or by e-mail appointment

Professor 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
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Professor 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
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Professor Victor Murinde

AXA Professor in Global Finance

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: Friday 9 - 11 or by email appointment

Professor Christine Oughton

Professor of Managerial Economics

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 Pasquale Scaramozzino

Professor of Economics

Macroeconomics; fiscal policy; applied econometrics

Tel: 020 7898 4055
Email: ps6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 528
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Professor Laixiang Sun

Professor of Chinese Business and Management

Corporate finance and governance, comparative economics, integrated modelling, business management and Chinese economy

Email: ls28@soas.ac.uk

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

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 and Cultural Studies

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

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

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

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
Academic Support Hours: Thursday 11 - 1

Dr Alberto Asquer

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management

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: Tuesday 3 - 4

Dr Ben Hardy

Head of School

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management

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)

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

Dr Helen Macnaughtan

Senior Lecturer in International Business and Management (Japan)

Tel: 020 7898 4530
Email: hm39@soas.ac.uk
Room: 546
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Dr Junhong Yang

Senior Lecturer in Finance

Tel: 020 7898 4904
Email: jy15@soas.ac.uk
Room: 533
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Lecturers

Dr 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: 525
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 1-3

Senior Teaching Fellows

Ellen Orr

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: eo10@soas.ac.uk

Sarah Parsons

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: sp58@soas.ac.uk
Room: 534
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 2-4pm

Dr Meng Xie

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: xm1@soas.ac.uk

Associate Members

Professor 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.

Email: mn2@soas.ac.uk

Professorial Research Associates

Professor Chris Adcock

Professorial Research Associate

Email: c.j.adcock@soas.ac.uk

Dr Alberto Iozzi

Professorial Research Associate

Industrial organisation, regulation, public economics.

Email: ai12@soas.ac.uk

Professor Leonardo Becchetti

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.

Email: lb62@soas.ac.uk

Research Associates

Dr Alessandra Dal Colle

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.

Email: ac144@soas.ac.uk

Rob Davies

Research Associate

Email: rd39@soas.ac.uk

Dr Inna Krachkovskaya

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.