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Name	Role
Business School Management Team
Professor Keith Bender	Dean and Head of School (until 30 November 2019)
Professor Martin Meyer	Dean and Head of School (from 1 December 2019)
Mrs Lindsay Tibbetts	Deputy Dean
Professor Donald Hislop	Director of Personnel
Professor Alan Sangster	Director of Resources
Professor W David McCausland	Director of Undergraduate Studies
vacancy	Director of Postgraduate Studies
Dr Allan J Sim	Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies
Professor John Skåtun	Director of On-Line and Digital Learning
Mr Russell Williams	Director of Off-Campus Learning
Professor Catia Montagna	Director of Research
Professor Chandana Alawattage	Director of Postgraduate Research
Dr Ian Robson	Director of Accreditation
Professor Norman Hutchinson	Head of Accountancy, Finance and Real Estate
Professor J Ignacio Canales	Head of Business Management
Dr Alex Zangelidis	Head of Economics
Professor Frank Hong Liu	Director of Internationalisation
Fiona Ritchie	School Administration Officer
Mrs Kirsteen Watt	Accreditation and Projects Manager
Research Directors
Professor Chandana Alawattage	Accountancy
Professor Chandana Alawattage	Finance
Dr Rainer Schulz	Real Estate
Professor Catia Montagna	Economics
Professor J Ignacio Canales	Business and Management

Administration Team

Business School Office
Michaela Catchpole	Digital Marketing Officer
Stephanie Marajh	Secretary for Economics, Business Management and International Business Undergraduate programmes
Conor Coull	Secretary for Accountancy, Finance and Real Estate Undergraduate programmes
Mrs Julia Braik	School Secretary for PGR Support and Recruitment, Travel, and PA to Head of School
Mrs Diane Alves	PA to Executive Dean (from 2019-07-01)
Mrs Pamela Cumming	Schools Engagement Coordinator
Julie Davidson	Senior Secretary (TNE and ODL) / PA to the Deputy Dean
Mrs Jaye Carr	Senior Secretary (Teaching Administration for PGT, PGT Examinations and Timetabling, PGT Academic Integrity and Appeals) (Teaching Administrator for UG and PGT Real Estate)
Ms Sasha Fraser	Secretary for Block-Taught Postgraduate Taught Courses
Aileen Davidson	Temporary Secretary
Paulina Kajda	Secretary for Accountancy, Finance, Real Estate and PEEF Postgraduate Taught Courses
Ms Jeanette Higginson	Admissions Secretary
Ms Nathalie Kemp	Secretary (Teaching Administration for PGT, PGT Examinations and Timetabling, PGT Academic Integrity and Appeals) (Teaching Administrator for UG and PGT Real Estate)
Mrs Clare Fletcher	PGT Admissions and Recruitment Coordinator (Marketing, Conversion and Social Media)
Mrs Fumiko Nakamaru	Editorial Assistant for the Scottish Journal of Political Economy and PA to Professor Kemp
Ms Gemma Neal	School Marketing Officer
Dr Laura Kruitbos	School Finance Officer (purchasing, contracts and travel)
Jillian Howatt	Senior Secretary (Oversees Teaching Administration for UG and PGT, UG Examinations and Timetabling, UG Academic Integrity and Appeals)
Deborah Park	Accreditation Officer
Abigail Murray	Admissions Secretary
Lucia Giuntoli	Business Engagement Advisor
Mandy Innes	School Support Assistant
Admissions Support
study@abdn.ac.uk	UG Admissions - Student Recruitment and Admissions
gbs@abdn.ac.uk	PGT Admissions - Business School
pgrbus@abdn.ac.uk	PhD Admissions - Business School

Programme Directors

Undergraduate Programme Directors
Dr Bill Jackson	MA Accountancy
Dr Laura McCann	MA Finance
Dr Nan Liu	MA Real Estate
Dr Harminder Battu	MA Economics
Dr Mauro Papi	MA Financial Economics
Professor J Ignacio Canales	MA / MBus International Business
Dr John Lamb	MA Business Management
Postgraduate Programme Directors
Dr Marc Gronwald	MSc Law and Economics of Oil and Gas
Dr Nikolaos Vlassis	MScEcon Petroleum, Energy Economics and Finance
Dr Nikolaos Vlassis	PGCert Energy Economics and Finance (Online)
Dr Naser Makarem	MScEcon Accounting and Finance
Dr Fotios Papadimitriou	MScEcon Finance and Investment Management
Professor Norman Hutchison	MSc Finance and Real Estate
Dr Yuan Zhao	MSc International Business and Finance
	MSc, PgDip or PgCert Digital Marketing Leadership
Dr Ian Robson	MBA Executive MBA (London, UK)
Dr Elizabeth Thomson	MSc Marketing Management
Dr Trevor Morrow	MBA
Dr Trevor Morrow	MBA (Global) (Online)
	MBA Finance
Dr Jing Cai	MSc International Business Management
Dr Trevor Morrow	MBA Energy Management
Dr Trevor Morrow	MSc International Human Resource Management
Dr Ian Robson	Executive MBA (Shanghai, China)
Professor Norman Hutchison	MSc Real Estate
Dr Paul-Olivier Klein	MSc Finance (Online)
Postgraduate Research Directors
Professor Chandana Alawattage	Accountancy
Professor Chandana Alawattage	Finance
Dr Rainer Schulz	Real Estate
Professor Ioannis Theodossiou	Economics
Dr Karolina Kazimierczak	Business and Management

Accounting, Finance and Real Estate

Name	Role	Interests
Accountancy
Professor Chandana Alawattage	Chair in Accountancy	Critical Perspectives on management accounting, governance, control and social and environmental accounting practises, especially comparative studies between Western and non-Western counterparts Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing, Energy and Environment, Finance and Governance, Theory and Method
Mr Alex Arthur	Senior Lecturer (Temporary, Part-Time)	Accountancy
Dr Robert Duncan	Lecturer (Scholarship)
Dr Shamima Haque	Senior Lecturer	Accountancy
Professor Azizul Islam	Personal Chair	Accountancy
Dr Bill Jackson	Senior Lecturer	Accountancy Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Mohamed Osman	Lecturer	Accountancy Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Audrey Paterson	Senior Lecturer	Accountancy Theme: Finance and Governance
Professor Alan Sangster	Personal Chair	Accounting theory Theme: Finance and Governance
Mr Mark Whittington	Senior Lecturer	Strategic management accounting, accounting education, international accounting, reporting and financial statement analysis Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Naser Makarem	Lecturer	Financial reporting, earnings management, audit quality, real activities manipulation
Mr Andrew Mulhern	Lecturer (Scholarship)
Dr Thereza Sales de Aguair	Senior Lecturer	Accountancy
Ms Lindsay Tibbetts	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)
Finance
Professor Angela Black	Chair in Finance	Asset pricing, household finance, corporate finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Filipa Da Silva Fernandes	Lecturer	Corporate finance, financial economics, banking Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Daniel Gymiah	Lecturer in Finance (from 2019-08-01)	Finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Chunxia Jiang	Senior Lecturer in Finance (from 2019-09-01)	Finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Professor Frank Hong Liu	Chair in Finance	Finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Paul-Olivier Klein	Lecturer	Finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Professor Gerhard Kling	Chair in Finance (from 2019-09-01)	Finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Seungho Lee	Lecturer in Finance (from 2019-10-01)	Finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Laura McCann	Lecturer	Corporate finance, debt source, relationship banking Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Fotios Papadimitriou	Senior Lecturer	Finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Professor Martin Hoesli Chair in Accountancy		House prices, disposable income, and permanent and temporary shocks and more
Professor Hans K Hvide	Chair in Economics and Finance	Economics, innovation and entrepreneurs, income and risk and more
Dr Huong Vu	Lecturer	Corporate finance, quantitative finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Yuan Zhao	Lecturer	Asset pricing theories, fund performance evaluation, volatility forecasting, relativity Theme: Property Market Analysis
Real Estate
Professor Norman Hutchison	Chair in Business School	Finance, commercial property valuation and investment, risk measurement and communication, and more Theme: Property Market Analysis
Dr Nan Liu	Lecturer	Property investment and property market analysis Theme: Property Market Analysis
Professor Bryan MacGregor	Chair in Real Estate	Theme: Property Market Analysis
Professor Deb Roberts	Chair in Real Estate	Regional science, rural development, agricultural policy,renewable energy, housing market analysis Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing, Energy and Environment, Property Market Analysis
Dr Rainer Schulz	Senior Lecturer	Theme: Property Market Analysis
Dr Fiona Stoddard	Lecturer (Scholarship)	Property valuation Theme: Property Market Analysis
Dr Martin Wersing	Lecturer	Housing market analysis and statistical modelling Theme: Property Market Analysis

Economics

Name	Role	Interests
Economics
Dr Ramses Hani Abul Naga	Reader	Public economics, health economics, microeconometrics and the measurement of inequality and wellbeing
Dr Yu Aoki	Lecturer	Health economics
Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam	Lecturer (from September 2019)	Energy and environmental economics Theme: Energy and Environment,
Dr Harminder Battu	Reader	Economics of education, employment contracts, regional inequality Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Dr Juergen Bracht	Lecturer	Trust and reputation
Professor Keith Bender	SIRE Chair in Economics	Labor Economics, Economics of Ageing, Subjective Well-being, Health Economics Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Dr Marc Gronwald	Senior Lecturer	Energy economics, environmental economics, resource economics Theme: Energy and Environment
Professor Hans K Hvide	Chair in Economics and Finance	Innovation and enterprise, investments, income risk
Dr Xin Jin	Lecturer	Energy economics and applied econometrics Theme: Energy and Environment
Dr Sola Kasim	Research Fellow	Energy and climate change adaptation and mitigation economics Theme: Finance and Governance
Professor Alex Kemp	Professor of Petroleum Economics	North Sea economics, international petroleum economics Theme: Energy and Environment, Finance and Governance Director: Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance
Dr Takahiko Kiso	Lecturer	Energy and environmental economics Theme: Energy and Environment, Finance and Governance
Professor W David McCausland	Personal Chair	macroeconomics, labour economics Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Professor Catia Montagna	Chair in Economics	International trade theory; firms in the global economy; labour markets, trade, FDI; globalisation and labour markets; welfare state policies Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing, Energy and Environment, Finance and Governance, Theory and Method
Dr George Emeka Onwordi	Research Fellow (until August 2019), Teaching Fellow (from August 2019)	Search and Matching frictions, Labour Markets and Policies, Macroeconomic Dynamics
Dr Mauro Papi	Senior Lecturer	Economic theory, experiments, and bounded rationality Theme: Theory and Method
Professor Euan Phimister	Chair in Economics	Economics of spatial labour markets Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing, Energy and Environment
Dr Agathe Rouaix	Lecturer	Agricultural and environmental economics Theme: Energy and Environment, Finance and Governance, Theory and Method
Professor John Skåtun	Personal Chair	Labour economics, labour market contracting, trades unions Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Professor Joe Swierzbinski	Chair in Env & Energy Economics	Experimental economics Theme: Energy and Environment, Theory and Method
Professor Ioannis Theodossiou	Chair in Economics	wage determination, unemployment, macroeconomics Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Dr Nikolaos Vlassis	Lecturer	Energy and environmental economics Theme: Energy and Environment, Finance and Governance
Dr Alex Zangelidis	Senior Lecturer	Labour economics Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Supervision Contacts
Professor Ioannis Theodossiou	Supervisor	Economics

Business Management

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 Theme:Theory and Method
Dr Ali Bayat	Lecturer	Firm policy, corporate governance, strategic leadership, policy implications of big data Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Karen Bilsland	Lecturer	Work organisation; HRM; employee engagement and participation; corporate governance; spatiality and architecture in organisations; visual research methods Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Jing Cai	Senior Lecturer	Technology management, innovation, dynamic capability, strategic management, gorporate governance Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Professor J Ignacio Canales		Strategic Management Theme:Theory and Method
Dr Xiaoqing (Joyce) Chen	Lecturer	Tourism Management, Customer Experience, Interpretive Paradigm, Asian Management Culture, Philosophies in Management Theme: Theory and Method
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. Theme: Theory and Method, Work, Health and Wellbeing
Professor Donald Hislop	Personal Chair	technology and work, mobile working, teleworking, knowledge management, artificial intelligence Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Yanghong (Alice) Hu	Lecturer	Sub-national institutions in emerging economies, institutional theory, corporate diversification, strategic management, entrepreneurship in emerging economies Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Karolina Kazimierczak	Lecturer	Science and technology studies; feminist theory Theme:Theory and Method Work, Health and Wellbeing
Dr John Lamb	Lecturer	Operational research, combinatorial and stochastic optimisation and simulation Theme:Theory and Method
Dr Elham Moonesirust	Lecturer	Identity; power; discourse; critical management studies; gender studies, ethics of care; qualitative methodologies Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Trevor Morrow	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)	Human Resource Strategy International and Comparative HRM International Business Entrepreneurship Research Methods Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Nicola Naughton	Lecturer (Scholarship)	Recruitment and selection, organisational behaviour, knowledge management and coaching Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Julian Randall	Senior Lecturer	Management of change; impact of change on managers' perceptions of job, work, career, and organisation Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Ian Robson	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)	The application of moral philosophy and moral theories to the business society interface with a focus on conflict, dispute and asymmetry. The application of institutional theory and institutional work theory to moral dilemmas, moral reasoning and conflict in organisational settings. Internationalisation theory, international market entry, relational and network theories. Discursive psychology and discourse analysis as well as interpretive methodology. Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Elizabeth Thomson	Lecturer	Qualitative research on child and family consumer behaviour Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Marcus Thompson	Lecturer (Scholarship)
Dr Allan J Sim	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)	Business Ethics & CSR, effective teaching, cultural identity, organizational culture, globalization
Dr Tim Stone	Lecturer	Qualitative consumer research on ageing, religion, or quality of life Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Hemamali Tennakoon	Senior Lecturer in Management (from 2019-08-01)	Business Management Theme: Theory and Method
Mr Russell Williams	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)	Marketing and entrepreneurship: online trust (peer reviews and peer endorsements), crowdfunding (project pitches), entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship education).
Professor Haina Zhang	Chair in Management (from 2019-09-01)	Business Management Theme: Theory and Method
Professor Simon Parker	Chair in Entrepreneurship
Supervision Contacts
Dr Karolina Kazimierczak		Business Management

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