Karen Benson is the Director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation at The University of Queensland. She has held a number of leadership roles at UQ, including Deputy Head of School 2016-2017, Director of Accreditation 2015-2017, and Head of Finance Discipline 2010-2015 in the UQ Business School. Karen was also Deputy President of UQ Academic Board 2018-2019.
Karen's research interests include socially responsible investment, social impact bonds, and student engagement in active learning. Her research has been well received by both practitioners and academics. Karen's work is published in internationally refereed journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, and Journal of Business Ethics.
Shaun Bond is the Frank Finn Professor of Finance in the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland. Shaun has research interests in the areas of real estate finance and financial economics. Prior to joining the UQ Business School, Shaun was the West Shell Professor of Real Estate in the Department of Finance at the University of Cincinnati and the Director of the UC Real Estate Center. Prior to this he held an appointment in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. In addition, Shaun has been a visiting professor at the Pennsylvania State University and the George Washington University. Shaun holds a PhD and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Queensland (awarded with First Class Honours).
Peter Clarkson undertakes research and teaching in both accounting and finance. His current research interests encompass issues relating to voluntary disclosure (both of a financial and a non-financial nature), company performance and valuation, and the economic implications of environmental performance. His work has been published in academic journals including The Accounting Review (TAR), Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE), Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR), Accounting, Organisations and Society (AOS), Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (JAAP), Abacus, Journal of Finance (JF), and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA)., as well as in professional periodicals. He is currently an Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research and Associate Editor for Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Journal of International Accounting Research, and Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics.
Dr Truc (Peter) Do joined UQ Business School after having graduated from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also been a visiting scholar at London Business School. His primary research lies in financial accounting domain. His is particularly interested in examining how cultural norms and peer interaction affect corporate outcomes, especially corporate information production. He is also interested in examining the importance of business sustainability and employee welfare. He has published in Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting & Finance. He has also been regularly invited to serve as referees for Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Accounting & Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Accounting and Business Research, Australian Accounting Review (on behalf of CPA Australia), Pacific Accounting Review (where he was recognised with Outstanding Reviewer Award), etc. His research works have also been featured at many conferences around the world, including American Accounting Association (AAA) Conference, European Accounting Association (EAA) Congress, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, MIT Accounting Conference, Japanese Accounting Review Conference, Financial Research Network (FIRN) Conference, Vietnam International Conference in Finance and Chinese Accounting Professors' Association of North America (CAPANA) Conference. His research has also received media mention in the FinReg Blog (run by Duke University). He has been awarded various research grants by AFAANZ (Developing Researcher Grant) and CPA (Global Perspectives Research Programme). He is also the winner of the AFAANZ section of the InSPiR2eS Global Pitching Research Competition (IGPRC) (2021). He has been awarded Researcher Excellence Award (Early Career) and Excellence in Developing the Accounting Discipline by UQ Business School in 2022. He currently teaches Financial Accounting at the Masters' level. He is a Chartered Accountant (CA).
Professor Joseph Fan joined UQ Business School in 2022, after serving 25 years in Hong Kong (CUHK 2004-2011; HKUST 1997-2004; HKU 1996-1997). He holds a PhD in finance from University of Pittsburgh, USA (1996) and a BA degree in economics from National Taiwan University (1985).
Joseph is a world leading researcher and an expert on the finance, governance, and organization of emerging market companies. He has published his research in a wide spectrum of renounced academic journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Accounting Research.
Joseph is one of the most cited researchers in finance globally – over 20,000 citations in Google Scholar. In particular, his co-authored research about ownership structures of East Asian companies has been named the 26th most cited article of all time published by Journal of Finance as of 2021. His another co-authored paper about political connections of Chinese firms published in Journal of Financial Economics has been named by Abacus (2018) as the 2nd most cited paper of all time on China finance and accounting topics. Joseph's research leadership is reflected by his long service on various editorial boards of international journals, including Journal of Corporate Finance and Management Science. His research insights are frequently quoted by global and regional medias, including The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Nikkei Asian Review, and South China Morning Post.
Besides research, Joseph devotes to disseminating knowledge to the industry and business community through applied research, executive education, and consulting. He is a co-author of The Family Business Map and several other books and case studies about family business governance and succession. He has developed a full EMBA course on corporate governance from emerging market perspectives and another course on family firm succession and governance, both are new and important addition to the business school curriculum. Joseph has consulted corporate governance and family business succession topics to numerous large and median sized global and regional industry leaders in China and Southeast Asia. The strong linkage between Joseph’s academic research and industry impacts has been acknowledged by Hong Kong University Grant Committee in its 2020 Research Assessment Exercise, as one of the top level (4/4) social impact cases submitted by all universities in Hong Kong.
Dr Terry Fitzsimmons is an Associate Professor in Leadership with the University of Queensland Business School. He is also a Chartered Accountant with over 35 years of practice. He is the Managing Director of the Australian Gender Equality Council (AGEC), a body whose members currently comprise 24 peak national bodies representing over 400,000 women across industry sectors in Australia. He also sits on the advisory board of Women and Leadership Australia and the board of the Abbey Museum.of Art and Archeology.
His PhD in Leadership examined successful attributes of CEOs and differing pathways to CEO roles for men and women. In June 2015 Dr Fitzsimmons and Professor Callan released ‘Filling the Pool’ a major report into gender inequality in Western Australia and what government, organisations and individuals can do to address the issue. Dr Fitzsimmons makes extensive use of the work of Pierre Bourdieu and his framework for the examination of persistent intergenerational societal disparity. The concepts of field, capital, habitus and symbolic violence feature heavily in the studies into gender inequality conducted to date. In 2019, working with the Alliance of Girls Schools Australasia, Dr Fitzsimmons with Dr Yates and Professor Callan, released the 'Hands Up for Gender Equality' report examining gender stereotypes, confidence, leadership and career preferences for 10,000 students in the highest matriculating schools in Queensland.
In 2020, in partnership with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Dr Fitzsimmons with Dr Yates and Professor Callan, released the 'Employer of Choice for Gender Equality' report detailing leading practices for driving workplace gender equality based upon detailed examination of 5 years longitudinal data provided by the 120 WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation holders. The report is written as a best practice guide for employers who wish to improve the retention and progression of women in their workplace.
In 2021, in partnership with the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Gender Equality Council, Dr Fitzsimmons with Dr Yates and Professor Callan, released 'Towards Board Gender Parity: Lessons form the past: Directions for the future.' The report explores how, despite significant gender inequality in Australian workplaces, Australia has become one of only three countries in the world to reach 30%+ women on its top 200 listed public company boards.
Dr Fitzsimmons has worked with many of Australia’s largest firms on their diversity programs and speaks regularly in Australia and overseas in the area of gender equality and inclusion. He has served as national and state presidents of not for profit bodies as well as having been a being a director on boards of Listed Public Companies in Australia and overseas.
Stephen Gray is the Malcolm Broomhead Chair in Finance at UQ Business School.
He is an active consultant and researcher in the areas of valuation, cost of capital, corporate financial strategy, financial modeling, financial risk management, and the creation of shareholder value.
He is well known for his work on empirical finance, asset-pricing and corporate finance which has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals. Stephen teaches a range of award and executive education courses in financial management, asset valuation, and corporate finance at UQ Business School, and has been recognised by the Prime Minister’s Award for University Teacher of the Year in the Economics, Business and Related Studies field.
He has Honours degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of Queensland and a PhD in financial economics from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
He is an active consultant to industry on issues relating to valuation, cost of capital, corporate financial strategy, financial modeling, financial risk management and the creation of shareholder value. He is frequently engaged as an expert on financial, valuation, regulatory and competition matters in court proceedings.
Jacquelyn is an Associate Professor in finance and is the finance discipline convenor.
Jacquelyn's research expertise is in sustainable finance/responsible investment i.e., how environmental, social and governance factors impact on investment decision-making for investors and corporations. She also has an active interdisciplinary research agenda in sustainability more broadly and a research interest in funds management.
Jacquelyn has published in well-regarded international finance journals including Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance and Journal of Business Ethics, as well as in journals outside of finance including Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change and Journal of Cleaner Production.She has been the recipient of AFAANZ research grants and numerous internal grants. She was a Vice President of the Financial Research Network, where she oversaw a program of career development for academic women in finance. Jacquelyn has received a BEL Faculty Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning or Experience - Commendation award and a UQ Business School Dean's award for Impactful Leadership.
Jacquelyn's research is of great interest to the wider financial community, both in Australia and internationally. Her research has been cited by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, the Cooper review, KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Jacquelyn has had numerous international invitations to speak about environmental, social and governance research and has also led a number of contract research projects for the finance industry. She has written practitioner articles that have appeared in Ethical Investor and Portfolio Construction as well as two textbook chapters.
Rand Low is Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland and an Associate Professor of Quantitative Finance at Bond Business School.
Assoc. Professor Rand Low’s research areas are in asset and investments management, specifically correlation/dependence modelling, portfolio optimization, risk management, systematic trading strategies and commodities investing strategies. His work has been published in leading academic and industry journals such as Journal of Banking & Finance, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Investing, Journal of Commodities Markets, Resource Policy, and Journal of Risk. Rand is an avid supporter of Open Access Journals and multi-disciplinary research. He is an Editor of the Special Issue of Mathematics: Mathematical Models and Applications in Finance (Impact Factor: 2.6; Q1 Journal Ranking)
Prior to his PhD studies, Assoc Prof. Professor Low worked in control systems engineering and management roles for Honeywell for landmark engineering projects such as GOMA, SLQ, Brisbane Square, Mater Mothers' Hospital, St Andrews Hospital, and more where he achieved the Chartered Engineer designation from Engineers Australia. During his PhD studies, he won the GSITA Award and 3MT competitions. Upon completing his PhD, he received the Dean's Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence, a research fellowship on portfolio optimization & risk management techniques for financial crises and an Australia Awards - Endeavour fellow. He has been a visiting research fellow at the New York University - Stern School of Business, and an Australian Institute of Business and Economis (AIBE) Scholar He has also had Visiting Research Fellow appointments at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Assoc. Prof Low research expertise has allowed him to successfully transition into industry as he has worked at the global headquarters of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and BlackRock in New York City. He led teams of quantitative researchers in building mathematical models for market/credit/operational risk, securities lending, structured products, asset-backed securities, and portfolio management. He has also defended quantitative model development practices on behalf of these institutions to US regulators such as the Federal Reserve (FED) and the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC). He is worked on quantiative model stress-testing, model risk management practices, and model risk governance for major global financial institutions.
Assoc. Professor Low’s is interested in applying statistical and machine learning techniques in automating business processes and investments management in areas such as corporate credit ratings, robo-advisors, digital assets (i.e., cryptocurrencies, blockchain), commodities, and systematic active investment strategies.
Ihtisham is a Lecturer in Finance at the University of Queensland (UQ), also having earned his PhD from UQ in 2020. With over a decade of teaching experience, within and outside Australia, he has taught various undergraduate and postgraduate finance courses, both in traditional and online formats, covering topics such as Portfolio Management, Asset Pricing & Public Financial Management.
Besides teaching students within university, Ihtisham also plays an active role in industry engagement and Executive Education and has a vast experience in facilitating capacity building courses, especially for the public sector. He currently serves as the Academic Director for UQ’s joint public sector finance program with the Queensland Treasury Corporation. This role allows him to bridge academic knowledge with practical industry insights, enriching the learning experience for both students and professionals alike. Notably, Ihtisham has been recognised for his excellence in teaching and learning, receiving the Student Engagement Award for his commitment to fostering a dynamic and engaging learning environment.
Ihtisham not only has a long teaching experience but is also actively involved in finance research. He has published scholarly work, in the fields of Climate Risk, Asset Pricing, and Corporate Finance in a number of highly ranked academic journals and has also been cited by different media outlets. Ihtisham has secured several research grants, from within UQ, and other prestigious organizations (e.g., American Finance Association, Korean Development Institute) and presented his scholarly work at leading local and international conferences (e.g., Financial Management Association)
Dr Lin Mi is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the UQ Business School. Lin's research interests include corporate finance and real estate finance. Her work has been published in well-regarded international journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, British Accounting Review, Economic Modelling, International Review of Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, and Accounting and Finance.
Associate Professor David Morrison's primary academic interests are in revenue law, corporate and insolvency law and economic analysis.
Associate Professor Morrison is an interdisciplinary researcher whose interests lie at the intersection of taxation law, corporate and insolvency law, bankruptcy, finance law and financial literacy as those interests apply to finance, the economy, social and policy framework and climate change. Associate Professor Morrison researches around law and finance especially as it applies to literacy and support for generational change. The recipient of three ARC research grants and a UQ Vice-Chancellors Research Excellence award, Associate Professor Morrison has held over 20 research grants and has published extensively including papers, conferences and as co-author of Voluntary Administration Thomson service. Associate Professor Morrison holds the degrees of BCom, LLB, MFM, LLM, GCEd and PhD (Qld), he holds the professional qualifications of Barrister-at-law, Chartered Accountant (CA), Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia (FFin), and is a Chartered Tax Advisor of The Taxation Institute (CTA).
Nadeem is an Associate Professor of Accounting and the Co-lead of the Business Sustainability Initiative (BSI) research hub at the University of Queensland (UQ) Business School. Prior to joining UQ, Nadeem held academic positions at the University of Otago and Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.
Nadeem's research interests are interdisciplinary, encompassing corporate governance structures, corporate social and environmental responsibility, and financial and non-financial disclosures, including climate change disclosures. His work on these topics has been published in high-quality journals (ABDC A*, ABS/AJG4, and FT50) such as The British Accounting Review, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, and Corporate Governance: An International Review, among others. His research findings and commentaries have also been featured in several media outlets (e.g., The Conversation, Newsroom) and have received multiple Best Paper Awards at international conferences, including the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) and the Corporate Governance SIG of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) conference. Additionally, he has won several other awards, including the Best Emerging Researcher award.
Nadeem is frequently invited by international universities to present research seminars, and he has delivered keynote speeches at several international conferences. He has also organized multiple international conferences. Nadeem often interacts with standard-setting bodies, including the External Reporting Board (XRB) in New Zealand and the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB), through research forums and by moderating/facilitating forum sessions. As part of his service to the academic community, Nadeem regularly reviews papers for top-ranked journals and serves on the editorial boards of several journals, such as Meditari Accountancy Research (Associate Editor) and the Journal of Intellectual Capital (Editorial Advisory Board member).
Nadeem primarily teaches accounting courses, including Sustainability Accounting and Reporting, Cost and Management Accounting, and Advanced Management Accounting, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has supervised five PhD students to completion and accepts new supervisees in his areas of interest. His PhD graduates hold key faculty positions at international universities. He has served as an examiner of several PhD theses.
Nadeem enjoys serving in leadership roles and has held several academic leadership positions during his career, including co-lead of the BSI research hub at UQ, Deputy Associate Dean of Postgraduate Programs, and Director of the Master of Professional Accounting degree at Otago.
Nadeem is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ).
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Dr Tan is an Associate Professor in Finance at the UQ Business School.
Dr Tan has earned a reputation as a researcher with expertise in capital structure and econometrics. His work has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals, such as Organization Science (Financial Times Top-50 Journal list, and UTD-24), Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Nature Profolio's Scientific Reports. Five of his papers have also been named as the Best Papers at the following five conferences: (1) the Asian Finance Association Conference, (2) the European Real Estate Society Conference, (3) the Western Risk and Insurance Conference; (4) the 6th Behavioural Finance Conference; and (5) the 4th International Conferences on Advances in Business & Law. In addition, he was recently awarded the 2016Early Career Researcher Excellence in ResearchAward by the UQ Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, and the 2017 Award for Excellence in Research by the UQ Business School.
Dr Tan teaches FINM3403 International Financial Management and FINM7402 Corporate Finance at UQ Business School, and was recently awarded the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2013 and the Commendation for Postgraduate Teaching in 2017. Besides being an inspiring teaching instructor, Dr Tan is also a great research mentor for junior faculty and Ph.D. students. Dr Tan is particularly proud of all of his Ph.D. students, because all of them had at least one chapter of their theses published in an A* journal (ABDC ranked) and/or received at least a research award before their Ph.D. graduation. In addition, his current first-year PhD students have also been awarded a few numerous best paper awards at various prestigious international conferences. In recognition of his contribution to research supervision, he was awarded two research supervision awards in 2020: (1) the UQ Business School Award for Excellence in PhD Supervision; and (2) the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law (BEL) Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research (HDR) Supervision.
His research has been featured in UQ News and over 100 media outlets across the globe, such as Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, 7News, ABC Radio, Yahoo News, International Business Times, MedicalXpress etc. As of 2022 June, his research was ranked in the Top 0.2% of all research outputs (21,383,946) ever tracked by Altmetric. In recognition of his contribution to cross-disciplinary research, he was awarded the Cross-Discipline Research Award by the UQ Business School in 2022.
In terms of service and engagement within the UQ Business School (UQBS), Dr Tan is the Honours Program Leader, who also sits on the UQBS Research Committee and UQBS Education Committee. Dr Tan was a Postgraduate Coordinator for the finance Ph.D. program between 2017 and 2020. Outside UQBS, Dr Tan serves as a Vice President (membership) and a board member for the Asian Finance Association, which is one of the top finance associations in Asia. Dr Tan is currently serving as a Deputy Editor at the Accounting and Finance Journal (ABDC "A" ranked Journal) and a Guest Editor for Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (A) and Accounting and Finance (A). Dr Tan also served as an Associate Editor at the Accounting Research Journal between 2018 and 2021.
His research interests focus on corporate finance, capital structure, and labor economics.
Dr Elizabeth Yushu Zhu is a Senior Lecturer in UQ Business School She obtained her PhD from Australian National University in 2010. Elizabeth's research investigates empirical finance topics in corporate finance & governance, entrepreneurial finance (including crowdfunding), and banking. Her publications have appeared in various high-rated academic journals such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Abacus, Accounting & Finance, Australian Journal of Management, China Economic Review, and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. She has supervised PhD students who are engaged in various research in the field of finance, including asset pricing, corporate finance, climate finance, among others.
