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People
We are leading experts in our fields and have a wide range of specialised interest including, corporate finance, investment and banking. We invite contact from prospective postgraduate research students.
Meet the team
Head of Department
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Victoria Milligan
Head of the Finance and Accounting Department, Senior Lecturer in Accounting
Deputy Head of Department
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Luckie Theva
Senior Teaching Fellow
Academic staff
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Shaker Ahmed
Lecturer in Finance
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Chris Akerman
Senior Lecturer in Accounting
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Dr Bouchra Benzennou
Accounting and Finance Level 6 Programme Leader
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Professor Bonnie Buchanan
Director of Sustainable and Explainable FinTech (SAEF) Center and Professor of Finance
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Dr Fabio Dias
Lecturer in Finance
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Dr Ali Elharidy
Senior Lecturer in Accounting
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Dr Jaitinder Gill
Teaching Fellow
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Dr Vasileios Katsoulis
Teaching Fellow in Finance
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Benita Rose Mathew
Lecturer in AI and Fintech
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Dr Christos Mavrovitis
Senior Lecturer in Finance and Accounting
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Jacqueline McCartney
Senior Teaching Fellow in Finance
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Gavin Midgley
Senior Lecturer in Accounting
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Professor Sarmistha Pal
Chair in Financial Economics
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Dr Vasileios Pappas
Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
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Dr Menelaos Tasiou
Senior Lecturer in Finance
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Professor Nikolaos Travlos
Professor of Finance and Accounting
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Dr Shuhui Wang
Lecturer in Finance
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Professor Jon Williams
Professor of Banking and Finance
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Dr Rafal Wojakowski
Associate Professor (Reader) in Finance
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Dr Xinyu Yu
Lecturer in Finance
Postgraduate research students
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Eman Alghufaili
Postgraduate Research Student
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Hirindu Bulathsinhala Arachchige
Postgraduate Research Student
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Xinchao Song
Postgraduate Research Student
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Shao Zhao
Postgraduate Research Student
Visiting Staff
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Anderson Mutter Teixeira
Visiting Researcher