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. 

I am the Postgraduate Research Lead for the Centre for Resilient Business and Society (CRBS) at Coventry University, where I manage and lead PhD and MRES degree programmes in economics, finance, accounting, and law, alongside my research and teaching responsibilities.

I hold a PhD from the University of Nottingham (UK), following an MSc in Economics and Finance from the University of York. My academic career has spanned several prestigious institutions in the UK. I taught full-time at Durham University until 2014, before joining Oxford Brookes University as a Senior Lecturer. Since 2015, I have been actively researching and lecturing at Coventry University, delivering modules in finance, econometrics, and economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Over the years, I have successfully supervised more than 140 MSc/UG dissertations and guided four PhD students to completion.

Before transitioning into academia, I gained experience working as a business consultant and served as a military officer for several years.

Area of Expertise:

• Applied econometrics
• Financial econometrics
• Economic analysis
• Sectoral studies - tourism and transportation (maritime and aviation)
• Regional studies - East Asia, Africa and Europe. 

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).