Essex Business School
Our academic staff
Dean of Essex Business School
Accounting and Finance
Dr Magda Abou-Seada
Deputy Dean of Partnerships - Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Financial & Corporate Reporting; Narrative Reporting & Non-Financial Disclosures; Accounting Education; International Financial Reporting; Issues in Accounting Profession; Gender Diversity & Gender Representation in Corporate Annual Reports
Professor Pawan Adhikari
Professor, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Accounting in Less Developed Countries; Government Accounting and Budgeting; Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs, GFSM, PEFA); Accounting History; Climate accounting, reporting and accountability in the public sector
Dr Rafia Afrin
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Professor Henry Agyei-Boapeah
Professor, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Financial reporting and corporate finance; Corporate governance and accountability; Environmental reporting and sustainability; and Mergers and acquisitions and corporate diversification
Dr Jacob Agyemang
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Management accounting and control systems in developing and emerging economies; Management accounting and development issues in developing and emerging economies; Interdisciplinary research across management controy systems, entrepreneurship and development issues; Corporate governance
Dr Shaila Ahmed
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Corporate governance; Family business; Labour governance, CSR and sustainability practices in developing countries; Interdisciplinary and qualitative research
Dr Christos Argyropoulos
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Financial Econometrics; Financial Forecasting; Alternative Investments; Empirical Asset Pricing; Climate Finance; RIsk Forecasting/Management
Professor Thankom Arun
Faculty Dean Research (Social Sciences) - Professor (R), EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Global Development and Development Finance.; Emerging economies; Financial Inclusion, Technology based financial delivery/services, Microfinance and Microinsurance; Issues in Corporate Governance, Disclosure and Social responsibility; Hybrid Organisations and Social Enterprises; Issues in Sustainable Development
Dr Muhammad Ashraf
Reader, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Management Accounting; Management Control; Public Sector Financial Management; Organizational Fraud; Gender and Precarious Work
Dr Sam Astill
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Time Series Econometrics; Financial Econometrics.; Theoretical Econometrics
Dr John Azure
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Dr Konstantinos Baltas
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Financial Economics; Applied Econometrics; Financial Intermediation; Empirical Finance; Banking; Financial Stability
Dr Chiara Banti
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
International finance; Market microstructure; Housing; Global liquidity; Emerging markets
Dr Udichibarna Bose
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Corporate Finance; Financial Economics; Emerging Markets Finance; Financial inclusion
Liangrong Chunyu
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Dr Stefano Filomeni
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Information Transmission in Banking; Relationship Banking; Bank Lending; Islamic Banking; Securitization
Professor Franco Fiordelisi
Professor, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Financial Risk Management; Banking Regulation and Supervision; Structure and performance in banking; Bank Corporate Governance; Bank risk culture
Professor Silvia Gaia
Professor, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Corporate Governance; Executive remuneration; Shareholders activism; Voluntary disclosure; Financial reporting; Social performance and Business Ethics; Social and environmental reporting
Dr Maria Ishaque
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Role of Professional Accounting in UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Role of Professional Accounting in Combating Modern Slavery
Dr Md Shahidul Islam
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Corporate political connection; Corporate environmental and sustainability performance; Stakeholder accountability and violation; Financial distress and bankruptcy
Dr Mehmet Furkan Karaca
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Professor Neil Kellard
Professor, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Finance (Financial inclusion, Derivative market efficiency, commodity portfolios, bubbles, hedge funds, hedge ratios, return predictability, asset price volatility); International Finance (Forward premium puzzle, purchasing power parity); Development (Inclusive growth, Prebisch-Singer hypothesis, modelling and forecasting commodity prices, linkages between commodities ,growth and poverty, the food crisis, political regime and health); Applied econometrics (Spurious regressions, panel, forecasting, long memory, fractional cointegration and structural breaks, GARCH modelling); Environment and Sustainability (cap and trade, carbon allowances, corporate governance)
Professor Sotirios Kokas
Professor, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Financial Networks; Syndicated Loan Market; Financial Regulation, Supervision and Architecture; Bank Competition and Financial Stability; Foreign Bank Ownership; Monetary Policy and Banks
Professor Alexandros Kontonikas
Professor, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Monetary policy; Sovereign risk
Dr Hao Lan
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Corporate Finance; Financial Text Analysis; Financial Reporting
Dr Teng Li
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Yiwei Li
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Junyi Liao
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Dr Jose Linares Zegarra
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Household finance; Banking and financial intermediation; Non-Bank financial institutions and market-based finance; Financial inclusion and access to finance; Fintech and Digital Finance
Dr Andre Lino
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Public Sector Auditing; Public Financial Management Reforms; Co-production of public services; Financial Resilience
Dr Zeeshan Mahmood
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Sustainability Accounting and Reporting; Accounting in Emerging Economies; Accounting for Sustainable Development Goals
Dr John Malagila
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Governance | Accountability | Responsibility | Sustainability
Dr Radu-Dragomir Manac
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Dr Efthimios Nikolakopoulos
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Financial Econometrics; Financial Forecasting; Empirical Finance; Bayesian Econometrics; Machine Learning
Dr Joshua Obeng-Nyarko
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Epistemic and Pedagogical Challenges of AI in Academia: A Framework for Ethical Integration
Professor Ekaterini Panopoulou
Professor, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Financial Econometrics; Financial Forecasting; International Finance; Alternative Investments; Climate/ environmental finance; Asset pricing; Risk management
Dr Maja Pulic
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Dr Anna Sarkisyan
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Empirical Banking; Securitisation; Corporate Governance
Onur Sefiloglu
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Dr Chaoyuan She
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Social and Environmental Reporting; Social Media Communication; Environmental accounting
Professor Ileana Steccolini
Professor, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Governmental financial resilience; Public sector accounting reforms; Roles, uses and users of accounting information in public services; Performance measurement in public services; Roles of accounting and accountability in inclusive public services and societies; Corruption and Supreme Audit Institutions; Digitalization of public services, accounting and accountability; Inclusion, participation and coproduction in public services: roles for accounting and accountability systems
Dr Anne Steinhoff
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Accounting and health(care); Accounting Education; Accounting in the third sector; Accountability and counter-accounting; Public Sector Accounting
Dr Lazaros Symeonidis
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Financial Econometrics; Forecasting; Empirical Asset Pricing; Commodities
Professor Shahzad Uddin
Professor, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Management accounting; Corporate Governance, CSR and Sustainability; Accounting and Economic Development; New Public Management and Governance
Dr Bedanand Upadhaya
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Corporate social responsibility/Sustainability practices in emerging/developing countries
Dr Chaminda Wijethilake
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Social and environmental accounting and its implications for the question of mundane governance in waste management; The use of social and environmental accounting in lean manufacturing; Performance implications of adopting sustainable logistics and supply chains in emerging markets; Performance measurement and governance in production and operations
Business and Management
Dr Muhammad Akram
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
AI-enabled consumer behaviour and well-being; AI, immersive technologies and the metaverse; Marketing strategy and firm performance; Social Customer Journey; Methodological Interests
Dr Maged Ali
Reader, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Big Data Technologies and Methodologies
Dr Shoba Arun
Reader (R), EBS - Business and Management
Dr Nicholas Beuret
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Dr Charan Bhattarai
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Social entrepreneurship; Migrant and refugee entrepreneurship
Professor Ilaria Boncori
Professor, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
identity work; transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming inclusion; auto/ethnography and arts-based methods; Writing Differently in management and organisation studies; embodied experiences in the workplace; affective processes in organisations and organising; Pregnancy endings/baby loss; Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Dr Mario Burghausen
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Corporate Marketing and Corporate Communication (and associated concepts/issues); Corporate Identity and Corporate Brand Management; Corporate Heritage, brand heritage, and (corporate) heritage brands; Corporate and organisational temporalities and time
Professor Rashedur Chowdhury
Professor, EBS - Business and Management
Professor George Chryssochoidis
Professor, EBS - Business and Management
Dr Stefano Cirella
Reader, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Creativity and Organisation; Collective Creativity; Leadership, Change and Transformation; Organisational Learning Mechanisms; Collaborative Management Research; Collaborative Innovation
Dr Debashree De
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Professor Mehmet Demirbag
Deputy Dean of Essex Business School and Professor (R), EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
internationalisation of R&D activities; offshore R&D; FDI location choice; product/regional diversification strategies of MNEs; Multinationals from Emerging Countries; International Mergers and Acquisitions; Reverse Knowledge Transfer by Emerging Country MNEs
Dr Muhammad Farooque
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Dr Marta Fernandez De Arroyabe Arranz
Deputy Director IADS and Reader (R), EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Cybersecurity; Artificial Intelligence; Digitalization
Dr Marcia Christina Ferreira
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Critical Studies in Marketing and Consumption; Global Majority Consumption Practices; Consumption Communities and Advocacy; Exclusionary Market Dynamics; Consumers Identity Politics; Early-Career Researchers Isolation; Methodological Interests
Professor Fragkiskos Filippaios
SeNSS Director - Professor (R), EBS - Business and Management
Dr James Fowler
Lecturer (R) and MBA Director, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Corporate Strategy; Business, Organisational and Management History; The Purpose and Value of Hybrid Organisations; The Management of Mega-Projects; Urban Public Transport Systems
Dr Debabrata Ghosh
Reader (R), EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Supply chain analytics; Sustainable operations; Game theoretic applications in supply chains; Emerging Economy and Supply Chain Issues; Pricing; Operations-Marketing Interface Models
Dr Mrinalini Greedharry
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Professor Philip Hancock
Faculty Dean Postgraduate - Professor (R), EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Managment in Everyday Life; Philosophy and Organisational Management; Recognition at Work and in the Labour Market; Organisational Culture, Art, Aesthetics and Symbolism; The Management and Lived Experience of Organisational Space and Architecture; The Organisational and Economic Dimensions of Christmas and Other Festivities; Organisational Change Management
Dr Maria Hudson
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Equality and Diversity; Precarious work and livelihoods; Organisational learning, social justice and moral economy; Qualitative research methodologies
Dr Tanveer Hussain
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Iman Jana
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Consumer behaviour; Consumer resistance to innovation; Customer engagement; International Marketing
Dr Malte Jauch
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Social Justice; Working Time Regulation; Free Time; Gendered Division of Labour; Inequality
Dr Shamsul Karim
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Dr Paul Kelly
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Organisation Studies; Information Systems; Impact and Evaluation; Global Development; Approaches to "Power" and "Practice" for research and engagement; Digital Transformation and AI in Organisations
Dr Atika Kemal
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Digital Innovation and Management; Digital Technologies, Data & Development; Digital Transformation & Socio-Organisational Change; Digital Technologies and Inclusion; Digital Innovation in Social Cash Programmes; Digital Identities & Inclusion; AI & Data Governance; Responsible & Ethical AI; Politics of AI & Development
Dr Hyerhim Kim
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Marketing Communications; Strategic Brand Management; Psychophysiological Methods; Corporate Social Responsibility
Dr Young-Ah Kim
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Innovation in the high-tech industry; Business-to-Business Marketing; Service Marketing; Quantitative Methods in Marketing (Advanced SEM, Hierarchical model, Choice Modelling); E-government and smart cities; Digital transformation in the service sector; Local economy revitalisation, regional innovation and sustainability; Government Support Policies for Firm Innovation; Higher Education and EdTech Industry
Palitha Konara
Professor, EBS - Business and Management
Dr Abhisek Kuanr
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Consumer Behaviour, Anti-consumption, Influencer Marketing, Body Image, AI & Chatbots, Wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT)
Professor Niraj Kumar
Professor, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management; Food Supply Chain; Supply Chain Innovation; Big data management
Dr Rama Kummitha
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Professor Caleb Kwong
Professor, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
social entrepreneurship, humane entrepreneurship and microfinance; entrepreneurship amongst the disabled population; entrepreneurship amongst refugees, Inernal Displaed Persons (IDPs) and those in the conflict zones; female and ethnic entrepreneurship; management education and enterprise education; human resource management (international); Entrepreneurship within the circular economy/ sustainability
Dr Jordon Lazell
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Consumer food waste behaviour; Sustainable Food Consumption and Production; Circular Economy Practices; Surplus food redistribution
Dr Aneela Malik
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Brand Management; Consumer Behaviour; International/Global Branding; Advertising and Marketing Communication; Ethical and Green Marketing
Dr Marina Michalski
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Country-specific evaluations of Employment Relations, HRM practice and Talent Management (Global South/rest-of-the-world countries); L&D, skills development and macro human resource development; Language-sensitive perspective on cross-national talent management; Apprenticeships in context
Dr Kholoud Mohsen
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Intra-firm integration mechanisms and their influence on marketing performance (effectiveness, adaptiveness, efficiency and creativity); The international marketing strategies of emerging market firms; Drivers of market pioneering; Emerging markets MNEs; Set-Theortic research in Business
Professor Phoebe Moore
Professor, EBS - Business and Management
Dr Louise Nash
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Organisational space, place, aesthetics and materiality; The lived experience of work in business clusters; The use of embodied methodologies in organisational research; Challenges faced by neurodivergent employees in the workplace
Dr Manuela Nocker
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Critical approaches to project work, particularly project teams; Organisational ethnography; The narrative and poetic approaches in organisational analysis; Identity construction and the management of identity; Ethics, social responsibility and sustainability; Collaboration and learning; Strategy-as-practice; Organisational innovation
Dr Femi Olan
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Dr Beatrice Piccoli
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Job insecurity and precarious work; Organizational justice; Organisational identification; Psychological well-being; Organisational behaviours
Dr Wali Ur Rehman
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
BLM and Employees Behavior
Dr Noelia-Sarah Reynolds
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Organisational change and mergers and acquisitions; Sensemaking; Sustainable organisational growth
Dr Raysa Rocha
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Wisdom; Spirituality & Religion; Knowledge Dynamics
Dr Ian Roper
Reader, EBS - Business and Management
Dr Tony Sampson
Reader (R), EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
User Experience Design (UX); Community Development & Emotional Geographies; Digital labour; Affective labour; Contagion (virality) theory & network culture; Neurocultures
Muhammad Shujahat
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Human Resource Management; (Counter)productive Organizational Behaviours; Knowledge Management; Employee wellbeing
Dr Charlie Smith
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Dr Hanqun Song
Reader (R), EBS - Business and Management
Dr Misagh Tasavori
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
International entrepreneurship; Digitalization, artificial intelligence, and business strategy; Business strategy and firms' growth
Dr Danielle Tucker
Reader, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Organisational change management; Change Communication; Public Sector Management; Policy Implementation; Change Agents; Integrated Care
Professor Melissa Tyler
Professor, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Feminist perspectives on work and organization; Gender, sexuality and embodiment at work; Organizational space, place, aesthetics and materiality; Emotional, aesthetic and sexualized forms of labour; Sales-service work and consumer culture; Gender, sexuality and the body in work organizations; Any work drawing on and developing feminist theory; The organization, management and lived experience of organizational space, place and setting; Emotional, aesthetic and sexualized labour in sales-service work
Dr Juneho Um
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Optimal Level of Product Variety; Global SC Uncertainty and Risk Management Strategies for SC Resilience; International Business Strategy; Service Supply Chain Performance; Service Customisation and Productisation; Sustainable Global Supply Chain; Emerging Technology in International Business; Challenges in Logistics & Trade
Dr Sahar Validi
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Supply Chain Analytics; Operational Research; Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems; Data-Driven Decision Analysis & Business Intelligence; Digital Transformation technologies for Net Zero
Dr Malu Villela
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Alternative organisations; Sustainable and equitable economies; Community-led technology
Dr David Watson
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Work and Wellbeing; Alienation and Marxian Philosophy
Dr Min Yan
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Consumer-technology interaction; Technology adoption and continuance intention; Loneliness, service robot, and consumer well-being
Dr Elaine Yerby
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Dr Reza Zaefarian
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Dr Yingqin Zheng
Reader (R), EBS - Business and Management
Dr Jingyu Zhu
Lecturer, EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Consumer psychology; Digital marketing; Consumer Decision Making
MBA and executive programmes
Dr James Fowler
Research interests:
Corporate Strategy; Business, Organisational and Management History; The Purpose and Value of Hybrid Organisations; The Management of Mega-Projects; Urban Public Transport Systems
Dr Debabrata Ghosh
Research interests:
Supply chain analytics; Sustainable operations; Game theoretic applications in supply chains; Emerging Economy and Supply Chain Issues; Pricing; Operations-Marketing Interface Models
Emeritus Professors
Prof Jerry Coakley
Emeritus Professor, Essex Business School
Research interests:
Fintech; Behavioural finance; Corporate finance
Professor Stuart Manson
Emeritus Professor, Essex Business School
Research interests:
Market Based Accounting; Accounting History; Corporate Governance
Prof Simon Price
Emeritus Professor, Essex Business School
Research interests:
forecasting methods; forecasting in the presence of structural change; density forecasts; long-horizon predictability; drivers of commodity prices; empirical macroeconomics; applications to dynamic 'macro' panel datasets; Mapping economic outcomes onto perceptions of government competence and and approval
Professor Nigel Pye
Emeritus Professor, Essex Business School
Research interests:
Supply Chains; Inter-organizational relationships
Professor Michael Sherer
Emeritus Professor, Essex Business School
Professor Prem Sikka
Emeritus Professor, Essex Business School
Research interests:
Accounting, crime and racism; Auditor regulation; Governance of the UK accountancy profession; Corporate governance; The accountancy profession and the state-profession relationship; Insolvency; Globalization; Tax Havens; Corporate Social Responsibility
Prof Anthony Taylor
Emeritus Professor, Essex Business School
