- Leadership Team
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Name Role School Executive Professor Haina Zhang Dean and Head of School Professor John Skatun Deputy Head of School Professor W David McCausland Director of Education Professor Keith Bender Director of Research Dr Joyce Chen Director of Internationalisation Professor Stephanie Morgan Director of Enhancements & Reputation Professor John Skåtun Head of Economics Adam Smith Director of Resources Dr Bill Jackson Head of Accountancy, Finance and Real Estate Dr Elham Moonesirust Head of Business Management to be appointed School Administrative Manager to be appointed Accreditation and Projects Manager Professor Angela Black Director of Staffing School Wide Roles Director of Postgraduate Research Selma Carson Director of Quality Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam Director of Online Dr Thereza Deaguiar Ethics Officer Professor Alexandros Zangelidis Director of Research Impact Dr William Cooper Senior Personal Tutor Lindsay Tibbetts Director of Student Experience Dr Naser Makarem Partnership Programme Lead Dr John Lamb Academic Integrity Chair Dr Varuni Wimalasiri Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead Dr Laura McCann Senior Exams Officer Dr Martin Wersing Senior Exams Officer Adam Smith Enterprise and Innovation Champion Research Centre Directors Professor Zaheer Kahn Co-Director of Africa Asia Centre for Sustainability Research Professor Jie Wu Co-Director of Africa Asia Centre for Sustainability Research to be appointed Director of Centre for Real Estate Research Professor Alex Kemp Director of Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance Professor Alexandros Zangelidis Director of Centre for Labour Market Research Dr Mauro Papi Director of Scottish Experimental Economics Laboratory (Research Facility) - Administration Team
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Business School Office Kate Smith Interim School Administrative Manager General School Support Julia Braik School Administrator and Deputy SAM (workload planning, bought-in tutors, travel and budget support) Laura Kruitbos School Support Coordinator (purchasing, operational support, bought in tutors) Ashley Lim School Administration Coordinator Aizhamal Akhayeva PA to Dean and Head of School Fumiko Nakamaru Editorial Assistant for the Scottish Journal of Political Economy and PA to Professor Kemp Sarah-Anne Gervaise School Administration Assistant (Operations) Academic Support Team Louise McKenzie Senior School Administrator Jaye Carr Student Progression Coordinator (Student Achievement, Student Monitoring, Pastoral Support and Personal Tutor support). Claire Mcarthur School Admin Co-ordinator, Undergraduate
Paulina Kajda School Admin Co-ordinator, Qatar (currently on maternity leave)
Cherie Connon School Admin Co-ordinator, Online, Qatar & TNE Julie Davidson School Admin Assistant, Undergraduate
Graeme McDonald School Admin Co-ordinator, PGT Block TaughtSchool Admin Assistant, Undergraduate
Anna Gaw School Admin Assistant, PGT Block Taught
Carolyn Johnston School Admin Assistant, PGT Linear Taught
Ruth Tweedie School Support Assistant for Real Estate PGT programmes
Viktorija Juoskaudiene School Administration Assistant (PGT applications processing and enquiries) Diane Hewitt School Admin Co-ordinator, PGT Linear Taught
School Admin Assistant, Undergraduate (maternity cover)
Ashley Whyte School Admin Assistant, Undergraduate
Kieran Leith School Admin Assistant, PGT Linear Taught
Jen Salmond School Admin Assistant, PGT Block Taught
Michelle Trew School Admin Assistant, Undergraduate (currently on maternity leave)
accfin@abdn.ac.uk Accounting and Finance queries econ@abdn.ac.uk Economics queries bus-management@abdn.ac.uk Business Management and IB queries realestate@abdn.ac.uk Real estate queries study@abdn.ac.uk UG Admissions - Student Recruitment and Admissions bus-pgt@abdn.ac.uk PGT queries External Engagement and Accreditation Vacant Accreditation and Projects Manager Julie Adamson School Administrator (Quality Assurance) Pamela Cumming Schools Engagement Officer Samantha Begg Business Engagement Adviser Stephanie Marajh Senior School Administrator (Accreditation) businessschool@abdn.ac.uk External Engagement enquiries bs-accreditation@abdn.ac.uk Accreditation enquiries Partnerships, PGT Admissions and Research Support Team Clare Fletcher School Partnerships and Curriculum Development Officer (including conversion management) Jeanette Higginson School Admissions Administrator (PGT applications processing and enquiries) Abigail Murray
School Admissions Coordinator (PGT applications processing and enquiries) Ruth Tweedie School Administration Assistant (PGT applications processing and enquiries)
Nick Hindley School Support Coordinator (Research and REF support) Nathalie Kemp School Administration Coordinator (PGR applications and enquiries) gbs@abdn.ac.uk PGT Admissions - Business School pgrbus@abdn.ac.uk PhD Admissions - Business School bs-internationalisation@abdn.ac.uk Internationalisation enquiries – Business School Marketing Ray Addison Marketing Manager Lucy Holmes Lead Marketing Officer Lewis Robinson Digital Marketing Officer - Programme Directors
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Undergraduate Programme Directors Dr Sarah Smith MA Accountancy Dr Laura McCann MA Finance Selma Carson MA Real Estate MA Economics Professor J Ignacio Canales MA / MBus International Business Professor Donald Hislop MA Business Management Postgraduate Programme Directors Dr Nikos Vlassis MSc/LLM Energy Economics and Law Dr Nikos Vlassis MScEcon Petroleum, Energy Economics and Finance MSc Energy Economics and Finance (Online) Dr Naser Makarem MScEcon Accounting and Finance Dr Fotios Papadimitriou MScEcon Finance and Investment Management Fiona Stoddard MSc Finance and Real Estate Dr Chunxia Jiang MSc International Business and Finance John Storm MBA Executive MBA (London, UK) MSc International Tourism Management Professor Pervaiz Akhtar MBA MBA (Global) (Online) Professor Pervaiz Akhtar MBA Business Analytics
Dr Jing Cai MSc International Business Management Professor Pervaiz Akhtar MBA Energy Management Dr Shainaz Firfiray MSc International Human Resource Management John Storm Executive MBA (Shanghai, China) Dr Fiona Stoddard MSc Real Estate Dr Seungho Lee MSc Finance (Online) Dr Daniel Gyimah MSc Corporate Finance and Law Professor Gerhard Kling MSc Financial Technology Dr Seungho Lee MSc International Finance and Political Relations Dr Huda Khan MSC Marketing Management Director of Postgraduate Research Professor Audrey Paterson PGR Discipline Coordinators Dr Nglaa Ahmad Accountancy Finance Dr Rainer Schulz Real Estate Dr Benedikt Mihm Economics Management - Accounting
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Name Role Interests Accountancy Dr Thereza Sales de Aguair Senior Lecturer Corporate social responsibility, climate change, gender, accounting education and MNCs.
Mr Alex Arthur
Senior Lecturer (Temporary, Part-Time) Accountancy. Lecturer Critical accounting, corporate accountability, modern slavery in the global supply chain, gender equality, climate change, sustainability issues.
Professor Azizul Islam Personal Chair and Subject Research Lead Sustainability accounting, Human rights & modern slavery related accountability and transparency, SDGs & social audits, corporate anti-bribery measures. Dr Bill Jackson Head of Discipline Accounting history, Healthcare accounting, Public and third sector accounting, Management control, Gender and the Accounting profession. Dr Naser Makarem Lecturer Financial reporting, earnings management, audit quality, real activities manipulation. Mr Andrew Mulhern Lecturer (Scholarship) Accountancy education; philosophical issues in accounting; financial statement analysis; double-entry bookkeeping; and music and creative sector. Dr Mohamed Osman Lecturer Accountancy history, sustainable development reporting in emerging countries, accounting education. Professor Audrey Paterson Personal Chair in Accountancy and Postgraduate Research Director
Healthcare accounting, anti-fraud and corruption, public and third sector accounting, Gender in the accounting profession, Accounting history.
Professor Alan Sangster Personal Chair, Head of Accounting Group Accounting history, the theory, practice and teaching of double entry bookkeeping, accounting education, accounting systems, accounting theory.
Dr Sarah Smith Lecturer (Scholarship) Financial accounting & reporting; Corporate communication including voluntary disclosure and impression management; Leasing; Academic faculty issues and Accounting education. Ms Lindsay Tibbetts Senior Lecturer (Scholarship) Auditing, Feedback and Assessment, Employability, Professional Education in an academic environment.
Dr Kenneth Weir Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer Strategic management accounting, accounting education, international accounting, reporting and financial statement analysis.
Theme: Finance and Governance
- Economics
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Name Role Interests Economics Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam Lecturer Energy and environmental economics
Dr Yu Aoki Lecturer Health economics
Reader Economics of education, employment contracts, regional inequality
SIRE Chair in Economics, School Director of Research, Subject Research Lead Labour Economics, Economics of Ageing, Subjective Well-being, Health Economics
Dr Juergen Bracht Lecturer Trust and reputation Chair in Economics and Finance (part-time) Innovation and enterprise, investments, income risk
Professor of Petroleum Economics North Sea economics, international petroleum economics
Director: Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and FinanceLecturer
Energy and environmental economics, public economics
Dr Likun Mao Lecturer Health Economics, Education Economics, Economics of Ageing Professor W David McCausland Personal Chair macroeconomics, labour economics
Lecturer Economics
Jaffrey Chair in Economics (part-time)
International trade theory; firms in the global economy; labour markets, trade, FDI; globalisation and labour markets; welfare state policies
Senior Lecturer Economic theory, experiments, and bounded rationality
Chair in Economics
Economics of spatial labour markets
Lecturer
Labour Economics, International Labour Migration, Gender Pay Gap, Minimum Wages and Trade Wars
Lecturer
Economics of spatial labour markets
Lecturer, Head of Economics Group Economics
Lecturer Economics
Head of Department Labour economics, labour market contracting, trades unions
Chair in Economics
Wage determination, unemployment, macroeconomics
Lecturer Energy and environmental economics
Professor of Environmental & Resource Economics. Environmental and Resource Economics
Personal Chair Labour economics
Supervision Contacts Dr Takahiko Kiso Supervisor Economics - Finance
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Name Role Interests Finance Dr Abraham Adu Lecturer in Finance (Scholarship), Head of Finance Group Finance
Chair in Finance Asset pricing, household finance, corporate finance
Dr Filipa Da Silva Fernandes Lecturer Corporate finance, financial economics, banking
Dr Daniel Gyimah Lecturer in Finance Finance
Weihao Han Lecturer Dr Chunxia Jiang Senior Lecturer in Finance Finance
Professor of Finance Finance
Dr Yaodong Liu
Lecturer in Finance Finance
Dr Seungho Lee Lecturer in Finance Finance
Senior Lecturer Corporate finance, debt source, relationship banking
Senior lecturer, Subject Research Lead Finance
Chair in Accountancy House prices, disposable income, and permanent and temporary shocks and more
Chair in Economics and Finance Economics, innovation and entrepreneurs, income and risk and more
Dr Huong Vu Lecturer Corporate finance, quantitative finance Dr Haofeng Xu Lecturer FinTech; Big Data in Finance; Corporate Finance - Business Management
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Name Role Interests Business Management Dr Scott Allan Lecturer The sociology, management and governance of professionals and professional work. In that context, financialisation of professional services and related metricisation of performance and control mechanisms; identity and subjectivity; power relations; knowledge/expertise and trust; technology and its effect on work
Lecturer International Business and Entrepreneurship
Professor Pervaiz Akhtar Personal Chair Business Analytics
Dr Ali Bayat Lecturer Firm policy, corporate governance, strategic leadership, policy implications of big data
Georgia Brown Lecturer Senior Lecturer Technology management, innovation, dynamic capability, strategic management, gorporate governance
Professor J Ignacio Canales Personal Chair and Subject Research Lead Strategic Management
Dr Xiaoqing (Joyce) Chen Lecturer, Director of Internationalisation Tourism Management, Customer Experience, Interpretive Paradigm, Asian Management Culture, Philosophies in Management
Dr William Cooper Senior Lecturer (Scholarship) Dr Cheryl Dowie Lecturer Business negotiation and conflict management, cross-cultural interactions, decision-making strategies, deal-making, ethics in negotiations.
Dr Shainaz Firfiray Senior Lecturer, Interim Head of People and Technology Group HRM, work-life balance, employee well-being, diversity, and family firms. Professor Donald Hislop Personal Chair technology and work, mobile working, teleworking, knowledge management, artificial intelligence
Dr Yanghong (Alice) Hu Lecturer, Interim Head of Strategy, Marketing and Entrepreneurship Group Sub-national institutions in emerging economies, institutional theory, corporate diversification, strategic management, entrepreneurship in emerging economies
Professor Sofia Johan Professor in Entrepreneurial Finance (fractional appointment)
Dr Esraa Karam Lecturer Dr Youngsoo Kim Lecturer Dr Huda Khan Senior Lecturer Management (Marketing)
Professor Zaheer Khan Professor in Strategy & International Business Global technology management, Knowledge transfer, international alliances, post-acquisition behaviour of emerging markets' firms, automotive industry, internationalisation of SMEs, and CSR practices of firms operating in emerging markets
Professor in Global Entrepreneurship and International Business (fractional appointment)
Lecturer Operational research, combinatorial and stochastic optimisation and simulation
Professor Dirk Libaers Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship (fractional appointment)
Professor Haina Zhang Dean and Head of School International management, organisational behaviour, human resource management and leadership.
Dr Elham Moonesirust Lecturer, Head of Department Identity and subjectivity; power; science and technology studies; critical management studies; gender studies, ethics of care; qualitative methodologies
Professor Stephanie Morgan Professor and Director of Enhancements & Reputation Business School accreditations, use of social media in HE, IT outsourcing, staff responses to change.
Dr Trevor Morrow Senior Lecturer (Scholarship) Human Resource Strategy
International and Comparative HRM
International Business
Entrepreneurship
Research MethodsLecturer (Scholarship) Recruitment and selection, organisational behaviour, knowledge management and coaching
Lecturer Leadership, institutional logics and organisational trust
Professor Simon Parker Chair in Entrepreneurship (fractional contract) Dr Xiaohui (Leo) Shi Senior Lecturer Management
Adam Smith Senior Lecturer Management (Entrepreneurship and Management Practice)
Dr Carol Smith Lecturer (Scholarship) Management
Lecturer Qualitative consumer research on ageing, religion, or quality of life
John Storm Senior Lecturer Business Management Lecturer (Scholarship) Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)Chair in Strategy & Entrepreneurship Marketing and entrepreneurship: online trust (peer reviews and peer endorsements), crowdfunding (project pitches), entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship education).
Dr Varuni Wimalasiri Lecturer, EDI Lead Professor Jie Wu Chair Professor in Strategy & Entrepreneurship Internationalization of emerging multinational enterprises, top management team, the behavioral theory of a firm, institutional complexity, culture and strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship,
- Real Estate
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Name Role Interests Muhammed Bolomope Lecturer Selma Carson Senior Lecturer Professor Norman Hutchison Chair in Real Estate Finance, commercial property valuation and investment, risk measurement and communication, and more Dr Nan Liu Head of Discipline Property investment and property market analysis Professor Deb Roberts Chair in Real Estate Regional science, rural development, agricultural policy,renewable energy, housing market analysis Dr Rainer Schulz Subject Research Lead Housing market analysis and statistical modelling Dr Fiona Stoddard Lecturer (Scholarship) Property valuation Dr Martin Wersing Lecturer Housing market analysis and statistical modelling