Dewan Rahman

Dewan Rahman is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at UQ Business School. He teaches Asset Pricing, Finance, and Investment and Portfolio Management across undergraduate and postgraduate programs. He finds teaching highly rewarding and values the opportunity to engage with students. He is also actively involved in supervising higher degree research (PhD) students and is currently accepting new students.

Dewan’s research focuses primarily on insider trading, corporate finance, corporate governance, and corporate disclosure. He has presented his work at leading conferences, including the American Finance Association Annual Meeting, the Australasian Finance & Banking Conference, the AFAANZ Annual Conference, and the New Zealand Finance Meeting, among others. His research has been published in high-quality academic journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, European Accounting Review, and Accounting and Business Research. He was awarded the 2020 ECR Excellence in Research Award from UQ Business School.

His research on insider trading has received significant media attention, with coverage syndicated across 10 outlets, including The Conversation and Business News Australia, and featured in UQ Business School’s industry research magazine, Momentum. In 2024-2025, he was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship and spent four months undertaking collaborative research at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He currently serves as one of the Finance PhD Coordinators and is a founding member of the UQ CALD HDR Forum. He is also a member of UQ Business School’s Digital Finance Research Hub. Overall, his research, engagement, and leadership profile has strengthened through high-quality publications, competitive grant success, the Australian-American Fulbright Professional Scholarship, growing international collaboration, and increasing external recognition.

Dewan holds a PhD in Finance (with Endeavour Scholarship) from the University of Queensland, MSc in Finance (with Commonwealth Scholarship) from the University of Strathclyde, and BBA (Finance) and MBA (Finance) from the University of Dhaka.