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People

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
Professor Audrey Paterson	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

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). bsstudentprogressioncoordinator@abdn.ac.uk
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
Neil Cruickshank	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

Undergraduate Programme Directors
Dr Sarah Smith	MA Accountancy
Dr Laura McCann	MA Finance
Selma Carson	MA Real Estate
Professor Frans de Vries	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
Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam	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)
Dr Xiaoqing (Joyce) Chen	MSc International Tourism Management
Professor Pervaiz Akhtar	MBA
Dr Ali Bayat	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
Dr Filipa da Silva Fernandes	Finance
Dr Rainer Schulz	Real Estate
Dr Benedikt Mihm	Economics
Dr Esraa Karam	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 Nglaa Ahmad	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
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 Yakubu Abdul-Salam	Lecturer	Energy and environmental economics
Dr Yu Aoki	Lecturer	Health economics
Dr Harminder Battu	Reader	Economics of education, employment contracts, regional inequality
Professor Keith Bender	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
Professor Hans K Hvide	Chair in Economics and Finance (part-time)	Innovation and enterprise, investments, income risk
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
Dr Likun Mao	Lecturer	Health Economics, Education Economics, Economics of Ageing
Professor W David McCausland	Personal Chair	macroeconomics, labour economics
Dr Benedikt Mihm	Lecturer	Economics
Professor Catia Montagna	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
Dr Mauro Papi	Senior Lecturer	Economic theory, experiments, and bounded rationality
Professor Euan Phimister	Chair in Economics	Economics of spatial labour markets
Dr Eva Pocher	Lecturer	Labour Economics, International Labour Migration, Gender Pay Gap, Minimum Wages and Trade Wars
Dr Hossein Radmard	Lecturer	Economics of spatial labour markets
Dr Agathe Rouaix	Lecturer, Head of Economics Group	Economics
Dr Prachi Singh	Lecturer	Economics
Professor John Skåtun	Head of Department	Labour economics, labour market contracting, trades unions
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
Dr Takahiko Kiso	Supervisor	Economics

Finance

Name	Role	Interests
Finance
Dr Abraham Adu	Lecturer in Finance (Scholarship), Head of Finance Group	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
Weihao Han	Lecturer
Dr Chunxia Jiang	Senior Lecturer in Finance	Finance
Professor Gerhard Kling	Professor of Finance	Finance
Dr Yaodong Liu	Lecturer in Finance	Finance
Dr Seungho Lee	Lecturer in Finance	Finance
Dr Laura McCann	Senior Lecturer	Corporate finance, debt source, relationship banking
Dr Fotios Papadimitriou	Senior lecturer, Subject Research Lead	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 Haofeng Xu	Lecturer	FinTech; Big Data in Finance; Corporate Finance

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
Dr Alan Ahi	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
Dr Jing Cai	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 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, 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 Methods
Dr Nicola Naughton	Lecturer (Scholarship)	Recruitment and selection, organisational behaviour, knowledge management and coaching
Dr Ijeoma Okpanum	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
Dr Tim Stone	Lecturer	Qualitative consumer research on ageing, religion, or quality of life
John Storm	Senior Lecturer	Business Management
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).
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

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