Staff listing - Department of Finance

Find out more about staff members at Deakin Business School's Department of Finance. Here you can see staff profiles, link through to their publications and get in touch.

Executive

Head of Department
Professor Ed Lin

Director of Research
Dr Edward Podolski

Director of HDR
Dr Saikat Sovan Deb

Director of International
Associate Professor Harminder Singh

Director of Teaching
Professor Monica Keneley

Director of Industry Engagement
Dr Nicole Johnston

Professors

Name
Alfred Deakin Professor Paresh Narayan (seconded to CEFER)
Professor Xin Chang
Professor Tarun Chordia
Professor Monica Keneley
Professor Ed Lin
Professor Richard Reed
Professor Joakim Westerlund (seconded to CEFER)

Associate Professors

Name
Associate Professor Michael Chng
Associate Professor Bill Dimovski
Associate Professor Victor Fang
Associate Professor Harminder Singh

Senior Lecturers

Name
Dr Huson Ali Ahmed
Dr A.S.M. Sohel Azad
Dr Saikat Sovan Deb
Dr Ning Gong
Dr Ameeta Jain
Dr Ruipeng Liu
Dr Sagarika Mishra
Dr Abdul Aziz Hayat Muhammad
Dr Hoa Nguyen
Dr Edward Podolski
Dr. Susan Sharma
Dianne Thomson
Dr Kannan Thuraisamy
Dr John Zhang
Dr Xinwei Zheng

Lecturers

Name
Dr Amirul Ahsan
Dr Tze Chuan 'Chewie' Ang
Dr Daisy Doan
Michael D'Rosario
Dr Mong Shan Ee
Dr Nicole Johnston
Dr May Hu
Dr Kang Koo
Dr Jerry Liang
Dr Annette Nguyen
Dr Wei Opie
Dr Chris Ratcliffe
Dr Peipei Wang
Dr Vincent Xiang
Dr Yuchao Xiao

Associate Lecturer

name
Dr John Guo

Administrative staff

name
Anne Cobb
Jackie Dennison

Current HDR students

P = Principal
A = Associate

Name	Thesis title	Supervisor
Maryam Akbari Nasiri	A multi-stage stochastic programming framework for international portfolio management with hedging strategies	Paresh Narayan (P) Sagarika Mishra (A) Susan Sharma (A)
Deepa Bannigidadmath	Three essays on commodity markets	Paresh Narayan (P) Huson Ali Ahmed (A) Susan Sharma (A) Kannan Thuraisamy (A)
Michael Dominic D'Rosario	Three essays on Telecommunications Economics	Paresh Narayan (P)
Neluka Devpura	Three essays on Asset Pricing	Paresh Narayan (P) Susan Sharma (A)
Desmond Dinama	The Impact of Environmental Issues on Market Value	Richard Reed (P) Kimberley James (A)
Junaidah Jailani	An Investigation into Human Barriers to the Implementation of Sustainability in Commercial Office Buildings	Richard Reed (P) Kimberley James (A)
Duc Anh Le	Does firm conversion from public to private alter tax aggressive strategies?	Harminder Singh (P) Li Liu (A)
Van Anh Mai	Marketing capability and asset pricing	Harminder Singh (P) Tze Ang (A)
Tushar Pandey	Farmer Producer Organizations as business Enterprise for small farmers in India	Paresh Narayan (P) Susan Sharma (A) Pramod Joshi (A)
Kathryn Ryan	Cost Escalation in Home Renovation	Richard Reed (P) Ameeta Jain (A) Chyi Lin Lee (A)
Shaun Edmund Buckland Stevenson	The long-term performance of REIT IPOs: Evidence from Australia and Asia	Bill Dimovski (P) Huson Ali Ahmed (A)
Qile Tan	The underpricing and long term performance of Chinese infrastructure IPOs	Bill Dimovski (P) Victor Fang (A)
Dianne Thomson	Are mutual organisational structures in the finance sector really dead?	Monica Keneley (P) Abdul Hayat Muhammad (A)
Vuong Thao Tran	Liquidity Creation, Capital and Bank Profitability	Chien-Ting Lin (P) Hoa Nguyen (A)
Xianan Zhang	Can "home-bias" puzzle in security selection be explained by investor sentiment?	Xinwei Zheng (P) Daisy Doan (A)