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 Senior 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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Dr Shishank Shishank
Associate Professor in Digital Transformation and 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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Kulvinder Singh
Associate Professor in Accounting
Kulvinder is an Associate Professor in Accounting. He is part of the course leadership team across the undergraduate and postgraduate accounting suite of courses. He is the college subject lead for Accounting, and works closely with the course leaders across the portfolio of courses.
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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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Dr Junkai Wang
Lecturer in Finance
Junkai Wang is a Lecturer in Finance at Birmingham City University's Department of Finance and Economics. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Hull, where his research focused on behavioural finance, particularly herding behaviour in stock markets. Before joining Birmingham City University, he served as a Teaching...
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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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Professor Erez Yerushalmi
Professor of 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...