Centre staff
Director
Dr Abdul Ghafoor is the Director of the Centre for Accountancy, Finance, and Economics (CAFE) and serves as the Academic Lead for Finance at BCU's AFE College, alongside his role as the Lecturer of Finance at Birmingham City University (BCU). Previously, he worked as Lecturer of Finance at Monash University. He is also a Non-resident Research Fellow at IPAG Business School Paris, France.
He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. His areas of research are corporate finance, corporate governance, and corporate misconduct. His work is published in various international journals such as British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Finance Research Letters, and others.
Centre staff
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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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Profefssor Erez Yerushalmi
Professor in Economics
Dr Erez Yerushalmi is a Professor of Economics. Before joining Birmingham City University (BCU) in 2017, he worked as a Research Fellow in the Institute for Employment (IER) at the University of Warwick from 2012, and also lectured at 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 BCU 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 Economics course at Nottingham...