My research interest covers a range of subjects such as economics, finance and business studies. 

• Instability in financial markets - caused by market structural issues or external events - and its consequences in the markets and the economy. 
• Price and volatility dynamics - stock, foreign exchange and commodity futures markets, and their interactions.
• Economic and industrial development in East Asia and Africa - oil and transportation industries, FDI, trades and factor mobility.
• Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and its impact on corporate financial performance
• Cross-disciplinary studies across economics and other social sciences/humanities related to cultures and social unrests. 

In addition to my research responsibilities, I am also the Postgraduate Research Lead for the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity (CFCI) of Coventry University, managing and leading PhD programmes in economics, finance, accounting and law. 

I was awarded a PhD from the University of Nottingham after graduated with a MSc degree in economics and finance from the University of York. I had taught at Durham University full-time until 2014 before joining Oxford Brookes University in 2014 as a senior lecturer. Since 2015, I have been researching and lecturing at Coventry University. I have taught many modules in finance, econometrics and economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and successfully supervised more than 140 students for their MSc/UG dissertations and 2 PhD students. Prior to my academic career, I worked as a business consultant and a military officer for several years. 

Area of Expertise:

• Applied econometrics
• Financial econometrics
• Sectoral and regional studies

I am currently supervising the following PhD projects.

• Impact of industry diversification on economic and human development in oil-producing Sub-Saharan African countries. (completed)
• Investigating the causes and impact of South Korea's FDI into Sub-Saharan African countries.
• Testing decouping and recoupling hypotheses between conventrional and Islamic stock markets. 
• Corporate financial performance and the adoption of entreprise risk management. 
• Corporate financial performance and environmental, social and governance (ESG) (completed).