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Name	Role
Business School Management Team
Professor Haina Zhang	Dean and Head of School
Professor W David McCausland	Director of Education
Mr Russell Williams	Director of Off-Campus Learning
Professor Keith Bender	Director of Research
Dr Audrey Paterson	Director of Postgraduate Research
Professor Stephanie Morgan	School Director of Accreditations & Interim Director of Staffing (Recruitment and Development Lead)
Professor Norman Hutchison	Director of External Engagement & Head of Real Estate
Dr King Omeihe	Head of Business Management
Professor John Skåtun	Head of Economics
Adam Smith	Director of Resources & Interim Director of Staffing (Discipline and Development Lead)
Dr Bill Jackson	Head of Accountancy
Professor Gerhard Kling	Head of Finance
Dr Trevor Morrow	Director of Internationalisation
Fiona Ritchie	School Administrative Manager
Mrs Kirsteen Watt	Accreditation and Projects Manager
Professor Angela Black	Interim Director of Staffing (Promotion and Development Lead)
Rhonda Macdonald	PA to Head of School
Research Directors
Professor Azizul Islam	Accountancy
Professor Gerhard Kling	Finance
Dr Rainer Schulz	Real Estate
Professor Catia Montagna	Economics
Professor J Ignacio Canales	Business and Management

Administration Team

Business School Office
Fiona Ritchie	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) (0.8 FTE)
Ashley Lim	School Support Assistant (Travel, purchasing and operational support)
Nicola Mian (maternity leave) Rhonda MacDonald	PA to Dean
Fumiko Nakamaru	Editorial Assistant for the Scottish Journal of Political Economy and PA to Professor Kemp
Academic Support Team
Vacancy	School Administrator (Teaching Administration for UG and PGT, UG Examinations and Timetabling)
Gordon Rosie	School Support Assistant for Business Management programmes
Claire Mcarthur	School Support Assistant for International Business Undergraduate programmes
Vacancy	School Support Assistant for Economics UG and PEEF Postgraduate Taught Courses
Emma Richards (maternity cover)	Student Progression Coordinator (Student Achievement, Student Monitoring, Pastoral Support and Personal Tutor support). jaye-businessschool@abdn.ac.uk
Paulina Kajda	School Support Coordinator (Teaching Administration for UG - including Qatar, UG Examinations and Timetabling, UG Academic Integrity and Appeals).
Cherie Connon	School Support Coordinator (On-line, off-campus, Qatar PGT)
Martin Cartney	School Administration Assistant
Julie Davidson	School Support Assistant for Accountancy, Finance and Real Estate Undergraduate programmes
Graeme McDonald	School Support Coordinator (Teaching Administration for block-taught PGT, block-taught PGT Examinations and Timetabling, block-taught PGT Academic Integrity and Appeals)
Morag Mitchell	School Administration Assistant
Sasha Fraser	School Support Assistant for Block-Taught Postgraduate Taught Courses
Anna Gaw	School Support Assistant for Block-Taught Postgraduate Taught Courses
Carolyn Johnston	School Support Assistant for PGT Finance and Investment Management (FIM), Petroleum, Energy Economics and Finance (PEEF) and Financial Technology (Fintech)
Morag Mitchell	School Support Assistant for Accountancy and Finance Postgraduate Taught Courses
Ruth Tweedie	School Support Assistant for Real Estate PGT programmes Split Role – based in Partnerships and Research Support Team
Diane Hewitt	School Support Coordinator (Teaching Administration for standard-delivery PGT, standard-delivery PGT Examinations and Timetabling, standard delivery PGT Academic Integrity and Appeals)
Ashley Whyte	General Support (Intern)
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
External Engagement and Accreditation
Kirsteen Watt	Accreditation and Projects Manager
Julie Adamson	School Administrator (Quality Assurance)
Mrs Pamela Cumming	Schools Engagement Officer
Lucia Giuntoli	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 (maternity leave)	School Administration Assistant (PGT applications processing)
Ruth Tweedie	School Administration Assistant (PGT applications processing and enquiries) Split Role – based in Partnerships and Research Support Team
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
Marketing
Ray Addison	Marketing Manager
Lucy Holmes	School Marketing Officer
Lewis Robinson	Digital Marketing Officer

Programme Directors

Undergraduate Programme Directors
Andrew Mulhern	MA Accountancy
Dr Laura McCann	MA Finance
Dr Nan Liu	MA Real Estate
Dr Yu Aoki	MA Economics
Dr Mauro Papi	MA Financial Economics
Professor J Ignacio Canales	MA / MBus International Business
Dr Tim Stone	MA Business Management
Postgraduate Programme Directors
Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam	MSc Law and Economics of Oil and Gas
Dr Nikos Vlassis	MScEcon Petroleum, Energy Economics and Finance
Dr Takahiko Kiso	PGCert 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
Russell Williams	MSc, PgDip or PgCert Digital Marketing Leadership
Martin Dowling	MBA Executive MBA (London, UK)
Dr Xiaoqing (Joyce) Chen	MSc Marketing Management
Professor Pervaiz Akhtar	MBA
Dr King Omeihe	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
Dr Jiafu An	MSc Financia Technology
Dr Yuan Zhao	MSc International Finance and Political Relations
Dr Huda Khan	MSC Marketing Management
Postgraduate Research Directors
Dr Shamima Haque	Accountancy
Dr Filipa da Silva Fernandes	Finance
Dr Rainer Schulz	Real Estate
Professor Ioannis Theodossiou	Economics
Dr Elham Moonesirust Dr Karolina Kazimierczak	Business and Management

Accounting

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
Dr Shamima Haque	Senior Lecturer	Corporate social responsibility, Climate change accounting, employee related disclosures, Gender in accounting.
Professor Azizul Islam	Personal Chair	Sustainability accounting, Human rights & modern slavery related accountability and transparency, SDGs & social audits, corporate anti-bribery measures.
Dr Bill Jackson	Senior Lecturer	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.
Dr Audrey Paterson	Reader	Healthcare accounting, anti-fraud and corruption, public and third sector accounting, Gender in the accounting profession, Accounting history.
Professor Alan Sangster	Personal Chair	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.
Mr Mark Whittington	Senior Lecturer	Strategic management accounting, accounting education, international accounting, reporting and financial statement analysis. Theme: Finance and Governance

Economics

Name	Role	Interests
Economics
Dr Nicole Andelic	Research Fellow	Labour Economics, Health Economics
Dr Yu Aoki	Lecturer	Health economics
Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam	Lecturer	Energy and environmental economics
Dr Harminder Battu	Reader	Economics of education, employment contracts, regional inequality
Dr Juergen Bracht	Lecturer	Trust and reputation
Professor Keith Bender	SIRE Chair in Economics (on sabattical)	Labour Economics, Economics of Ageing, Subjective Well-being, Health Economics
Professor Hans K Hvide	Chair in Economics and Finance (part-time)	Innovation and enterprise, investments, income risk
Dr Sola Kasim	Research Fellow	Energy and climate change adaptation and mitigation economics
Professor Alex Kemp	Professor of Petroleum Economics	North Sea economics, international petroleum economics Director: Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance
Dr Takahiko Kiso	Lecturer	Energy and environmental economics, public economics
Professor W David McCausland	Personal Chair	macroeconomics, labour economics
Dr Benedikt Mihm	Lecturer	Economics
Professor Catia Montagna	Jaffrey Chair in Economics	International trade theory; firms in the global economy; labour markets, trade, FDI; globalisation and labour markets; welfare state policies
Dr George Emeka Onwordi	Teaching Fellow	Search and matching frictions, labour markets and policies, macroeconomic dynamics
Dr Mauro Papi	Senior Lecturer	Economic theory, experiments, and bounded rationality
Professor Euan Phimister	Chair in Economics	Economics of spatial labour markets
Dr Hossein Radmard	Lecturer	Economics of spatial labour markets
Dr Agathe Rouaix	Lecturer	Economics
Professor John Skåtun	Chair in Economics	Labour economics, labour market contracting, trades unions
Professor Joe Swierzbinski	Chair in Environmental and Energy Economics	Experimental economics
Professor Ioannis Theodossiou	Chair in Economics	Wage determination, unemployment, macroeconomics
Dr Nikolaos Vlassis	Lecturer	Energy and environmental economics
Professor Frans de Vries	Professor of Environmental & Resource Economics.	Environmental and Resource Economics
Professor Alex Zangelidis	Personal Chair	Labour economics
Supervision Contacts
Professor Ioannis Theodossiou	Supervisor	Economics

Finance

Name	Role	Interests
Finance
Dr Abraham Adu	Lecturer in Finance (Scholarship)	Finance
Professor Angela Black	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
Dr Chunxia Jiang	Senior Lecturer in Finance	Finance
Professor Gerhard Kling	Chair in Finance	Finance
Dr Seungho Lee	Lecturer in Finance	Finance
Dr Laura McCann	Lecturer	Corporate finance, debt source, relationship banking
Dr Fotios Papadimitriou	Senior Lecturer	Finance
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
Dr Yuan Zhao	Lecturer	Asset pricing theories, fund performance evaluation, volatility forecasting, relativity

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
Professor Pervaiz Akhtar	Personal Chair	Business Analytics
Dr Ali Bayat	Lecturer	Firm policy, corporate governance, strategic leadership, policy implications of big data
Dr Karen Bilsland	Lecturer	Work organisation; HRM; employee engagement and participation; corporate governance; spatiality and architecture in organisations; visual research methods
Professor George Boyne	Principal and Vice-Chancellor	Public services performance and management; strategic management; local government; public sector
Dr Jing Cai	Senior Lecturer	Technology management, innovation, dynamic capability, strategic management, gorporate governance
Professor J Ignacio Canales	Personal Chair	Strategic Management
Dr Xiaoqing (Joyce) Chen	Lecturer	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	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	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 Karolina Kazimierczak	Lecturer	Science and technology studies; feminist theory
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
Dr King Omeihe	Head of Discipline	Entrepreneurship, Economic Sociology, Trust and Institutions, SME Internationalisation, Migrant and Ethnic Minority Businesses, West Africa, Research Methods
Professor Gary Knight	Professor in Global Entrepreneurship and International Business	(fractional appointment)
Dr John Lamb	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	Identity; power; discourse; critical management studies; gender studies, ethics of care; qualitative methodologies
Professor Stephanie Morgan	Professor and Director of Accreditations	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 Methods
Dr Nicola Naughton	Lecturer (Scholarship)	Recruitment and selection, organisational behaviour, knowledge management and coaching
Professor Simon Parker	Chair in Entrepreneurship (fractional contract)
Dr Xiaohui (Leo) Shi	Senior Lecturer	Management
Dr Allan J Sim	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)	Business Ethics & CSR, effective teaching, cultural identity, organisational culture, globalisation
Adam Smith	Senior Lecturer	Management (Entrepreneurship and Management Practice)
Dr Carol Smith	Lecturer (Scholarship)	Management
Dr Tim Stone	Lecturer	Qualitative consumer research on ageing, religion, or quality of life
John Storm	Senior Lecturer	Business Management
Dr Hemamali Tennakoon	Senior Lecturer in Management	Online privacy, cyber security, information security, online victimisation, cyber-psychology, human-computer interactions, social commerce, social networking sites, business models
Dr Elizabeth Thomson	Lecturer (part-time)	Qualitative research on child and family consumer behaviour
Dr Marcus Thompson	Lecturer (Scholarship)
Mr Russell Williams	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)Chair in Strategy & Entrepreneurship	Marketing and entrepreneurship: online trust (peer reviews and peer endorsements), crowdfunding (project pitches), entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship education).
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,
Supervision Contacts
Dr Karolina Kazimierczak		Business Management

Real Estate

Name	Role	Interests
Real Estate
Professor Norman Hutchison	Chair in Business School	Finance, commercial property valuation and investment, risk measurement and communication, and more
Dr Nan Liu	Lecturer	Property investment and property market analysis
Professor Bryan MacGregor	Chair in Real Estate
Professor Deb Roberts	Chair in Real Estate	Regional science, rural development, agricultural policy,renewable energy, housing market analysis
Dr Rainer Schulz	Senior Lecturer	Housing market analysis and statistical modelling
Dr Fiona Stoddard	Lecturer (Scholarship)	Property valuation
Dr Martin Wersing	Lecturer	Housing market analysis and statistical modelling