Centre Staff
Reader in Economics
Dr Erez Yerushalmi
Dr Erez Yerushalmi is a Reader in Economics at BCU, and Director of the Centre for Applied Finance and Economics (CAFÉ). He has over 20 years of professional experience in economic research and consulting, and over 7 years of project management. He has been the recipient of many research funded projects from bodies such GIZ, CCA, the Wellcome Trust, MRC, KEEN, UNESCO, Israel NIHPR, and others. He has extensive experience in quantitative economic modelling, econometric forecasting, and is a specialist in applied computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. Erez has a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick, UK.
Centre staff
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Dr Navjot Sandhu
Associate Professor in Finance
Dr Navjot Sandhu is Finance subject group lead, managing undergraduate and postgraduate Finance programmes in the department. She has a wide range of experience of developing, delivering higher education courses programmes, modules at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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Dr Shishank Shishank
Senior Lecturer in Operations Management
Dr. Shishank Shishank has a multidisciplinary background with a PhD in Operations Management from the University of the West of Scotland. His PhD brings together both management and engineering concepts and was titled Outsourcing: Decision-making during the stages of Design and Engineering.
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Dr Danilo Spinola
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Dr Danilo Spinola holds a PhD on Economics from the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT)/Maastricht University, where he also been a postdoctoral fellow.
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Dr Mingru Sun
Senior Lecturer in Finance
Dr Mingru Sun obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Birmingham. Her PhD research focused on the investigation of transaction cost, holding period and return volatility in stock markets. She also holds an MSc in International Money and Banking from the University of Birmingham.
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Anna Yartseva
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Programme Leader for BA Economics
Anna Yartseva main area of academic expertise is macroeconomics and economic policy. Most of the research she has done so far is related to various macroeconomic phenomena.
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Dr Erez Yerushalmi
Reader in Economics
Dr Erez Yerushalmi joined Birmingham City Business School as lecturer in Economics and Business in 2017. Prior to joining Birmingham City University, he worked as a Research Fellow in the Institute for Employment (IER) at the University of Warwick from 2012, as well as lecturing in Warwick Business School.
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Dr Wenyu Zang
Associate Professor in Economics
Wenyu is an Associate Professor in Economics and Economics Subject Group Lead. She joined Birmingham City Business School in 2022. Prior to this, she was the Course Leader for Doctorates in Business Administration (DBA), Deputy Chair of the School Research Degree Committee and the Course Leader for BA Business Management and...
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Dr Jing Yang Zhong
Senior Lecturer in Marketing
Dr. Jing Yang Zhong is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Birmingham City Business School. She joined Birmingham City University in 2016 following her earlier appointment as a lecturer at the University of Surrey .