School of Finance and Management Staff

Chris Adcock

Professor of Quantitative Finance

Asset pricing; Non-normal multivariate probability distributions; Portfolio performance measurement, Portfolio selection; Stein’s Lemma.

Tel: 020 7898 4459
Email: c.j.adcock@soas.ac.uk
Room: 566

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: S134
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

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

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: Tuesday 11 - 12

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: Friday 2:30 - 3:30

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

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

Gerhard Kling

Professor of International Business and Management

Mergers & Acquisitions, International Business, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Mathematical & Statistical Modelling

Tel: 020 7898 4821
Email: gk17@soas.ac.uk
Room: 529
Academic Support Hours: Monday 10 - 12

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: Tuesday 3-5 or by email appointment

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: Wednesday 3:30 - 4:30 and Friday 3 - 4

Pasquale Scaramozzino

Professor of Economics

Macroeconomics; fiscal policy; applied econometrics

Tel: 020 7898 4055
Email: ps6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 528
Academic Support Hours: Monday 3 - 5 (or by email 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

Ibrahim Abosag

Senior Lecturer in Marketing

Cross-cultural marketing, international consumer behaviour.

Tel: 020 7898 4223
Email: ia9@soas.ac.uk
Room: 584
Academic Support Hours: Thursday 3 - 5

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: Thursday 12 - 1

Senija Causevic

Senior 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; Balkans; India

Tel: 0207 898 4514
Email: sc83@soas.ac.uk
Room: 542
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Alberto Feduzi

Senior 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.

Tel: 020 7898 4460
Email: af19@soas.ac.uk
Room: 442
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 3 - 4

Ben Hardy

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management

Tel: 020 7898 4460
Email: bh32@soas.ac.uk
Room: 442
Academic Support Hours: Monday 11-1

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

Linda Hsieh

Senior Lecturer in International Business Management

Tel: 020 7898 4352
Email: hh24@soas.ac.uk
Room: 534
Academic Support Hours: On leave Term 1

Helen Macnaughtan

Senior Lecturer in International Business and Management (Japan)

Tel: 020 7898 4530
Email: hm39@soas.ac.uk
Room: 546
Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 1-3

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
Academic Support Hours: On leave Term 1

Gary Schwarz

Reader in Public Policy and Management, Head of School

Public management, leadership, performance, innovation, strategy

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4091
Email: gary.schwarz@soas.ac.uk
Room: 544
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Yoshikatsu Shinozawa

Senior Lecturer in Financial Studies; Research Coordinator

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
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 2-4

Huan Zou

Senior Lecturer 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: On Leave 2018/19

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

Maurizio Fiaschetti

Lecturer in Banking and Finance

Applied Econometrics (discrete choice models, spatial econometrics) Financial Economics (asymmetric information in the banking system, complex system dynamics, measures of systemic risk, the role of fintech) and Economic Geography (Wellbeing, built environment).

Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4754
Email: mf51@soas.ac.uk
Room: 554
Academic Support Hours: Monday 1 - 3

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

Ryotaro Mihara

Lecturer in International Management (Japan and Korea)

Tel: 020 7898 4904
Email: rm52@soas.ac.uk
Room: 533
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 3-5

Sahar Rad

Lecturer in International Management (MENA)

Dr Sahar T. Rad is a development economist focusing on the political economy of international development, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. She holds a PhD in development economics from SOAS. Her areas of research and work include international trade and investment, conflict and economic development, political transition and economic transformation, political economy of institutions, and the global development architecture. Dr Rad has taught international economics, political economy and development economics at King's College London, SOAS and the University of Westminster, and has also worked as a senior economist in several international development organisations, including the United Nations, the International Labour Organisation, and the African Development Bank.

Tel: 020 7898 4145
Email: st54@soas.ac.uk
Room: 548
Academic Support Hours: Thursday 10 - 12

Huanguang Qiu

Newton International Fellow

Adel Hamaizia

Senior Teaching Fellow

Adel Hamaizia is a DPhil Candidate at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, and a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Financial and Management Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research focuses on the Political Economy of the Maghreb. His special interests are MENA-oriented and include regional integration; energy policy; economic diversification; private sector development; rentier states; state-business relations; and the development of institutions.

Email: ah102@soas.ac.uk

Sarah Parsons

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: sp58@soas.ac.uk

Vanesa Pesque Cela

Senior Teaching Fellow

Tel: 020 7898 4640
Email: vc6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 537
Academic Support Hours: Friday 2 - 3

Jacob Schumacher

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: js85@soas.ac.uk

Meng Xie

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: xm1@soas.ac.uk

Jing Bian

Teaching Fellow

Financial Regulation, International Economic Law, Chinese Law, Corporate Governance, Cross-border Mergers and Aquisitions

Email: jb72@soas.ac.uk

Yueqin Dong

Teaching Fellow

Email: yd4@soas.ac.uk

Dafydd Fell

Contemporary Taiwanese Politics: Elections, Parties, Democratization

Tel: 020 7898 4206
Email: df2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 209
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 11.00 - 1.00PM

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.

Email: nf4@soas.ac.uk

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: +44 (0)20 7898 4667
Email: sz8@soas.ac.uk
Room: S328

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 4541
Email: mn2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 474

Mohsin Khan

Visiting Professor

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

Alberto Iozzi

Professorial Research Associate

Industrial organisation, regulation, public economics.

Email: ai12@soas.ac.uk

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

Scott Rozelle

Professorial Research Associate

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

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.

Email: ik10@soas.ac.uk

Tao Li

Research Associate

Tel: 020 7898 4242
Email: tl2@soas.ac.uk

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
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 3-5

Jack Wu

Research Associate

Ayse Demir

Tel: 020 7898 4536
Email: ad83@soas.ac.uk
Room: 560

Désiré K. Kanga

Tel: 020 7898 4562
Email: dk15@soas.ac.uk
Room: 539

Richard Story

Department Manager

Tel: 020 7898 4638
Email: rs83@soas.ac.uk
Room: R201

Matthew Jaggar

Department Academic Officer - School of Finance and Management

Tel: 020 7898 4438
Email: mj13@soas.ac.uk
Room: R201

Anya Kropfitsch

Department Student Officer - School of Finance and Management

Tel: 020 7898 4487
Email: Current students: Student Information Desk (SID) (https://www.soas.ac.uk/sid/) Prospective students: defims@soas.ac.uk
Room: R201