This directory of experts gives the media access to informed opinion and analysis from our faculty on a broad range of research topics and current affairs.
It aims to serve the needs of print and broadcast media seeking comment, interviews, stories, background or panel participants.
It contains details of academic staff who are happy to be contacted by journalists and speak as an authority on their particular areas of research and teaching.
We have faculty who can speak on many current UK and global issues and sectors including banking and finance, compliance in the banking sector, economics of climate change, business risk, entrepreneurship, innovation, frugal innovation, Islamic finance, general management, organisational behaviour, developing economies (particularly China and India), business in the entertainment world – and many more.
The following members of our faculty are available to speak to the media on the issues of the day.
| Subject area | Faculty member | Special areas of interest |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting | Chu, Jenny | Stock markets and financial information: earnings quality, capital market reactions to accounting information, sell-side analysts, management incentives and compensation. |
| Accounting | Jagolinzer, Alan | Financial reporting; international accounting; corporate governance; executive compensation and incentives; insider trading. |
| Accounting | Meeks, Geoff | Creative accounting and accounting regulation; the relation between company accounting and national accounting; bankruptcy and IPO reporting. |
| Accounting | Willis, Michael | Disclosure regulation; regulatory enforcement; financial reporting choices; accounting-based capital markets research. |
| China | Williamson, Peter | China and Chinese companies; global mergers and acquisitions. |
| Circular economy | Soufani, Khaled | Economics of re-use/repair/recycling. |
| Corporate governance & ethics | Kor, Yasemin | CEO and executive team competencies; board governance; CEO and board interaction. |
| Corporate governance & ethics | Learmount, Simon | Notions of corporate ownership. |
| Developing countries | Munir, Kamal | Socio-economic changes in South Asia and Africa; economic development and competitiveness of developing countries. |
| Economics and policy | Genakos, Christos | Applied microeconomics; industrial organisation; incentives and performance; behavioural economics. |
| Economics and policy | Kitson, Michael | Macroeconomic policy; regional economics; interest rates; central banks; UK budget. |
| Economics and policy | Runde, Jochen | Social ontology and the ontology of technology; decision-making under uncertainty. |
| Economics and policy | Menges, Jochen | Evolutionary economics; financing of innovation. |
| Economics and policy | Pollitt, Michael | Industrial economics; Christian ethics and best practice business behaviour. |
| Economics and policy | Soufani, Khaled | The economics and finance of small to medium-sized enterprises. |
| Employment | Kitson, Michael | Manufacturing and regional employment. |
| Energy | Pollitt, Michael | Privatisation and regulation of utilities in the energy industry. |
| Energy | Reiner, David | Fracking and carbon capture and storage technologies; energy demand; international environmental negotiations; policy design; public perceptions of energy technologies. |
| Energy | Taylor, Simon | The economics and financing of energy infrastructure, especially nuclear power. |
| Environment | Ansari, Shahzad (Shaz) | Social and environmental issues. |
| Environment | Cole, Othman | Carbon emissions and economic growth. |
| Environment | Reiner, David | Climate change policies; social and political acceptability of low-carbon technologies; international environmental negotiations. |
| Entrepreneurship | Kavadias, Stylianos (Stelios) | New product development (NPD). |
| Entrepreneurship | Soufani, Khaled | Entrepreneurial finance. |
| Entrepreneurship | Stockley, Simon | Entrepreneurship education; technology ventures; entrepreneurial behaviour. |
| Entrepreneurship | Stott, Neil | Social entrepreneurship. |
| Entrepreneurship | Tracey, Paul | Social entrepreneurship. |
| Executive/CEO pay | Rau, Raghavendra | Executive compensation; CEO behaviour and risk. |
| Finance | Chambers, David | IPOs; asset management; endowments and foundations; financial history; law and finance. |
| Finance | Chu, Jenny | Stock markets; earnings quality; sell-side analysts; accounting; executive compensation. |
| Finance | Cole, Othman | Behavioural finance. |
| Finance | Dimson, Elroy | Investment management; financial market history; endowment asset management. |
| Finance | Meeks, Geoff | Financial reporting. |
| Finance | Rau, Raghavendra | Corporate finance; market efficiency; executive compensation; CEO behaviour and risk. |
| Finance | Soufani, Khaled | Corporate finance; financial and managerial strategy; small-medium sized enterprises; circular economy; fast-expanding markets (FEMs). |
| Globalisation | Williamson, Peter | Globalisation and its implications for corporate strategy; business ecosystems and strategic alliances; strategies for a carbon-constrained world; global mergers and acquisitions. |
| Health management/Healthcare | Barrett, Michael | Healthcare innovation; artificial intelligence (AI) and online communities for health support. |
| Health management/Healthcare | Scholtes, Stefan | The challenges of organising high-quality and affordable healthcare services. |
| Health management/Healthcare | Erhun, Feryal | Socially responsible operations. |
| Human resources | Learmount, Simon | Human resource management. |
| Human resources | Stiles, Philip | Human resource management; organisational culture; the influence of self-conscious emotions such as shame, pride and guilt on work motivation. |
| India | Prabhu, Jaideep | Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise specialising in business, marketing, strategy and innovation. |
| Innovation | Kavadias, Stylianos (Stelios) | Innovation and growth. |
| Innovation | Menges, Jochen | Innovation systems and processes; innovation networks. |
| Innovation | Prabhu, Jaideep | Innovation in emerging markets and in high-technology industries; firm culture in driving innovation; multinational firms and innovation organisation. |
| International business | Kitson, Michael | International trade. |
| International business | Williamson, Peter | International business. |
| International business | Prabhu, Jaideep | The internationalisation of firms from emerging markets. |
| Japan | Learmount, Simon | Japanese corporate system. |
| Leadership | de Rond, Mark | Teamwork; high-performance environments; collective problem-solving. |
| Leadership | Menges, Jochen | Organisational and institutional change; CEO/leadership issues. |
| Leadership | Stiles, Philip | Leadership; high performance working; organisational culture; change management; corporate governance; the dynamics of boards of directors; chief executive succession. |
| Management science and operations | Kavadias, Stylianos (Stelios) | New product development; resource allocation; new projects and products; organisational design. |
| Management science and operations | Loch, Christoph | Engineering in complex systems; managing novel and ambiguous initiatives; resource allocation. |
| Management science and operations | Scholtes, Stefan | Project management; knowledge management; business value of technology. |
| Manufacturing | Loch, Christoph | Manufacturing management and strategy; engineering in complex systems. |
| Marketing | Mak, Vincent | Psychological factors in decision-making; internet search behaviour; pricing; game theory; experimental economics. |
| Marketing | Prabhu, Jaideep | Marketing, strategy and innovation (International). |
| Media, arts and culture | Hadida, Allègre | Creative arts; media; cinema; film and music. |
| Mining | Reiner, David | Energy demand, public perceptions of energy technologies. |
| Offshoring and outsourcing | Ansari, Shahzad (Shaz) | R&D offshoring/outsourcing. |
| Offshoring and outsourcing | Barrett, Michael | IT systems offshoring/outsourcing. |
| Organisational behaviour | Tracey, Paul | Institutions and institutional change; regional innovation. |
| Pharmaceuticals | Barrett, Michael | Digital healthcare innovation for personalised medicine. |
| Pharmaceuticals | Scholtes, Stefan | Healthcare issues and finance. |
| Psychometrics | Stillwell, David | Psychometric testing; psychometric adaptive test development, real-time analysis of online digital footprints, behavioural prediction and state-of-the-art school examinations. |
| Psychology | Stillwell, David | Psychology and decision-making in the context of social networks. |
| Policy | Kitson, Michael | Macroeconomic policy; British politics; trade/trade talks. |
| Policy | Reiner, David | Science policy and communicating science and technology. |
| R&D | Loch, Christoph | Performance measurement in R&D. |
| R&D | Prabhu, Jaideep | The forces that drive R&D location decisions. |
| Reputation management | Ansari, Shahzad (Shaz) | Reputation management in organisations. |
| Risk | Ralph, Daniel (Danny) | Risk in business decision-making; risk aversion in electricity markets; methods and models for optimisation problems and equilibrium systems; cyber-attack risk; insurance. |
| Social innovation | Stott, Neil | Organisational socialisation. |
| Social innovation | Tracey, Paul | Regional innovation. |
| Social networks | Stillwell, David | Social networks/social media; big data; internet; digital economy. |
| Strategy | Ansari, Shahzad (Shaz) | Institutional processes and diffusion of practices; reputation management, and bottom-of-the-pyramid strategies. |
| Strategy | Hadida, Allègre | Creativity in business. |
| Strategy | Munir, Kamal | Social and institutional change; technological shifts in society; new markets; socio-economic changes in South Asia and Africa; economic development and competitiveness of developing countries. |
| Telecoms | Barrett, Michael | Mobile infrastructure. |
| Telecoms | Genakos, Christos | Competition policy and regulation. |
| Tourism | Cole, Othman | Tourism and sport. |
| Utilities | Reiner, David | Regulatory policy; competition policy. |
| Wine | Dimson, Elroy | Wine and investing. |