Our people
Director
Associate Professor Abhay Singh
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Abhay has a primary research focus on financial risk modelling, including econometrics and multivariate analysis, sustainable investment analysis and asset pricing. He is leading interdisciplinary research projects in data science with a strong focus on data analytics and financial analytics. Abhay has further research interests in FinTech, data visualisation, text mining, social media analytics, time series econometrics, multivariate dependence and risk modelling using copulas, and applied statistics.Professor Martina Linnenluecke
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Martina researches the strategic and financial implications of corporate adaptation and resilience to climate change impacts. Martina is the author of The Climate Resilient Organization and has extensive experience in working with government and industry on organisational climate adaptation strategies, assessments and planning.Deputy Directors
Honorary Associate Professor Dan Daugaard
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Dan is the Deputy Director responsible for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) research in the Centre for Corporate Sustainability & Environmental Finance. His current research focus is on deciphering the thematic structure of ESG investment research and investigating the key drivers affecting ESG fund flows. Prior to academia, Dan managed institutional investment portfolios and developed innovative investment products including one of Australia's first environmental superannuation funds.Honorary Associate Professor Rui Xue
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Rui initially joined the Centre as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Finance. His research areas are concentrated on environmental finance, digital finance, and interdisciplinary research including climate finance, financial big data, corporate sustainability, low-carbon finance, sustainable investment and FinTech.Our Members
Professor Surya DevaSurya is a Professor at the Macquarie Law School and Director of the Centre for Environmental Law. Surya has advised UN agencies, governments, multinational corporations, and civil society organisations on issues related to business and human rights. He also researches in the areas of India-China constitutional law, international human rights law, sustainable development, and gender dimensions of new technologies. |
Professor Chris PatelChris is a Professor in International Accounting. Chris’ research program adopts a cross-disciplinary approach to provide theoretical, methodological and empirical evidence on improving the quality of accounting, accountability and corporate governance across countries such as Australia, China, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Germany and Italy. |
Professor Grant RichardsonGrant is a Chaired Professor of Accounting. Grant has interests and expertise in capital markets research with a particular emphasis on financial accounting/taxation, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and capital structure (debt and equity) effects. |
Professor Elizabeth SheedyElizabeth is a Professor in Finance. Her research focus is on risk governance, culture, and remuneration in financial institutions. Elizabeth’s work has contributed to the policy debate on financial services misconduct, remuneration practices, enhancing financial services culture/conduct and related issues. |
Associate Professor James HazeltonJames is an Associate Professor in Accounting. James specialises in business ethics and sustainability where he has consulted, researched and taught extensively in these areas. His current projects include accounting for carbon emissions by cities and accounting for (in)equity. |
Associate Professor Yin LiaoYin is an Associate Professor in Finance. Her main research interests are in the areas of financial econometrics, household finance, FinTech, sustainable finance and credit risk. |
Associate Professor Mauricio MarroneMauricio is an Associate Professor in Business Information Systems. His research interest is in creating innovative research methods and the intersection of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship with relevance to all business sectors. |
Associate Professor Vida SiahtiriVida is an Associate Professor in Marketing. Her research interests include work on environmental sustainability in the context of B2B brands, the role of brands and consumers in emerging markets, and work that addresses innovative products at the bottom of the pyramid. |
Associate Professor Clara ZhouClara is an Associate Professor in Finance with expertise in environmental finance, corporate finance and investment. Her specific research interests include the connection of these areas with asset pricing, cost of capital, risk management, liquidity and equity return. |
Dr Rohan BestRohan is a Senior Lecturer in Economics. His major research areas include energy economics, sustainability and environmental economics. |
Dr Di BuDi is a Senior Lecturer in Finance. His research interests lie in FinTech, climate finance and household finance. In these areas, he studies the formation of beliefs and the financial decision-making of households and firms. |
Dr Jianlei HanJianlei is a Senior Lecturer in Finance. His research interests include economic policy uncertainty, environmental finance and empirical corporate finance. |
Dr Grace LeponeGrace is a Senior Lecturer in Finance. Her research interests include behavioural finance, market microstructure and experimental studies. |
Dr Le LuoLe Luo is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting. She has over ten years of research experience in corporate sustainable and low-carbon development, carbon accounting and emission trading schemes. |
Dr Peipei PanPeipei is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting. Her research adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to examine the influence of contextual factors on professional accountants’ and auditors’ judgments and decision making (JDM). |
Dr Terry PanZheyao (Terry) is a Senior Lecturer in Finance. His research interests include asset pricing tests, environmental finance and empirical corporate finance. |
Dr Muhammad AtifAtif is a Lecturer in Accounting. His research interests include corporate governance (board dynamics and diversity), CSR, firms’ sustainability and disclosure, climate change, and auditing practices. |
Visiting Researchers
Associate Professor Rawshan Ara BegumEmail: rawshan.begum@mq.edu.au
Rawshan’s research focus is in the areas of environmental and energy economics as well as economics, financing and policy aspects of climate change and sustainability. She has significant expertise and skills in Quantitative & Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis; Econometric & Statistical Analysis; Cost-benefit Analysis; Environmental Valuation; Life Cycle Assessment; Time Series Analysis, Input-Output Analysis; and Computable General Equilibrium Modelling. Rawshan is serving on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) for the Sixth Assessment Report (2018-2022). |
Rawshan is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Finance. Prior to this, she was an Associate Professor at the Institute of Climate Change, National University of Malaysia (UKM) and at the Center for Water Cycle, Marine Environment and Disaster Management (CWMD) in Kumamoto University, Japan. She also worked as Senior Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow at UKM. Rawshan obtained her PhD degree in Environment and Development from UKM in 2006.Associate Members
Honorary Associate Professor Han Li
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Han has a broad range of research interests around longevity and mortality risks, ageing and retirement, and the impact of climate change on the insurance industry. Specifically, much of her research expertise centres on actuarial modelling and forecasting using advanced econometric and statistical techniques.Dr Zahra Borghei Ghomi
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Zahra worked for the Centre as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2020-2022. She completed her PhD in greenhouse gas emissions disclosure while working as a casual academic in the Macquarie Business School. Zahra comes from a background as an accounting practitioner before embarking on an academic career. Her research interests include corporate governance and sustainability.Dr Ashley Ding
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Ashley worked for the Centre as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2019-2022. She completed her PhD in Environmental Finance at the University of Queensland, where she also worked as an associate lecturer in Finance. Prior to this, she graduated with first-class honours in commerce at the Australian National University (ANU). She was a junior practitioner at Green Steps (ANU branch) with training and expertise in carbon accounting, providing greenhouse gas emissions assessment and reporting. Her research interests include market volatility in fossil fuel and clean energy markets, asset pricing and cleantech innovation, ESG reporting, and climate policy uncertainty.Dr Abbas Hejri
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Abbas worked for the Centre as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2020-2022. He completed his PhD in Applied Finance at Macquarie University. Abbas is a multidisciplinary researcher with a background in engineering and data science. His research areas include mutual funds, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), empirical corporate finance, sustainability, and business ethics.Dr Luluk Widyawati
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Luluk specialises in accounting and finance for sustainability. Her research focuses on the role of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) information within the Socially Responsible Investments (SRI) market. She has worked in projects and trainings in the field of sustainability reporting, natural capital accounting, and social entrepreneurship in collaboration with various multinational organizations in Indonesia and Singapore.Our Centre Postdocs
Dr Yun Shen
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Yun joined the Centre as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in March 2020. She completed her PhD in Applied Finance at the University of South Australia. Her research interests focus on CEO characteristics, empirical corporate finance, (anti-)money laundering, corporate social responsibility, ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), and natural experiments.Dr Georgina Ge
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Georgina joined the Centre as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2020. She completed her PhD in Finance at Macquarie University in 2019 which was supported by a Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship. Georgina is an expert on asset-liability mismatch risk in the “shadow banking” industry, the risk profiles of financial intermediaries, and the information sensitivity of the money market.International Collaborations
We have established successful collaborations with leading experts – including Professor Bob Whaley (Vanderbilt University, United States), Professor Baljit Sidhu (University of Sydney) and Professor Matthew Richardson (New York University Stern School of Business) – and with a research network of colleagues across Europe, North America and Australasia. There are 9 PhD students in the area who are being supervised by the Macquarie-based team.
Research Students
If you are interested in pursuing a research degree or a PhD in the areas of environmental finance or corporate sustainability, please contact A/Prof. Abhay Singh (abhay.sing@mq.edu.au). For entry requirements, please visit PhD and research degrees.