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Professor Abul Shamsuddin Professor Abul Shamsuddin

Professor Abul Shamsuddin

Professor
Newcastle Business School

Abul is Professor of Finance and has held numerous leadership roles including Head of the Newcastle Business School. His research interests are in the areas of financial market efficiency and asset pricing. He has published two books and over twenty articles in A-ranked journals. He has supervised 38 research students, including 16 PhDs and undertaken collaborative research with academics from Monash University, La Trobe University and Simon Fraser University. He has attracted Australian and Canadian government-funded grants.

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Dr Bobae Choi Dr Bobae Choi

Dr Bobae Choi

Associate Professoor
Newcastle Business School

Bo is a senior lecturer whose main research area is in financial accounting. In particular, she is interested in the role of financial and non-financial information in improving the market efficiency, the managerial incentives to provide voluntary corporate disclosers, the market implications of analyst and management forecasts, earnings quality and corporate governance. Her papers have been published in leading Australian and international journals including Contemporary Accounting Research. She has a PhD from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Dr Van Le

Dr Van Le

Lecturer

Van is a lecturer who has undertaken research across wide areas of finance, including areas of derivatives pricing. Her research has been published in high-quality international journals and presented her research and leading national and international conferences.

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Dr Adrian Melia

Dr Adrian Melia

Senior Lecturer/Casual Academic
Newcastle Business School

Adrian is a lecturer whose research interests centre on asset pricing, particularly the importance of corporate governance as a factor in asset pricing. He has published in high-quality journals following a successful early career in investment banking with a range of leading organisations.