Ihtisham is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Queensland (UQ), also having earned his PhD in finance from UQ in 2020. With over a decade of teaching experience, both 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 and Public Financial Management.
Ihtisham also has a vast experience in facilitating capacity building courses, especially for the public sector (Executive Education). He served as the Academic Director for UQ’s joint public sector finance program with the Queensland Treasury Corporation over the period 2021-2024. This role allowed 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 Sustainable Finance, Asset Pricing, and Corporate Finance in a number of highly ranked academic journals and has also been cited by different media outlets.
Dr Christoph Nedopil is a UQ Business School Professor, a Visiting Professor at FISF Fudan University, Shanghai, and a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London.
Christoph’s work focuses on green industry transitions in the Asia-Pacific region. He regularly provides advisory services and capacity building to governments, financial institutions, enterprises, and civil society on green finance, corporate governance and transition leadership.
He is the lead author of the UNDP SDG Finance Taxonomy, the Innovative Climate Finance Solutions report for the G20 in Indonesia, and the Green Development Guidance of the BRI Green Development Coalition under the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment. He has further authored four books with translations in several languages and published articles in Science and other leading academic journals. Christoph is quoted regularly in Financial Times, The Economist, Reuters, Bloomberg, and other major outlets.
Before joining UQ, he served as Director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, as the Founding Director of the Green Finance & Development Center and Associate Professor at the Fudan International School of Finance (FISF), Fudan University and previously as Founding Director for the Green BRI Center at the Central University of Economics in Beijing. He also worked for more than a decade with the World Bank in over 15 countries and served as a Director at the German development agency GIZ.
Christoph holds a Master of Engineering and a PhD in Economics from the Technical University Berlin, as well as a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School.
