Professor Moshfique Uddin

Profile

Moshfique's primary research focuses on corporate financing and investment decisions, corporate restructuring and alternative financing. His objective is to establish how popular finance theories could help solve economic and financial problems in emerging markets. As there are several essential differences between developed markets and emerging markets in terms of governance and institutional quality, he acknowledges that the understanding we gather from standard finance theories may not be enough to solve the financial problems of those emerging markets. As such, his research has highlighted these issues and tried to suggest alternative solutions by employing a multi-disciplinary approach that incorporates formal and informal institutions within standard finance theories and extends the knowledge by looking at their implications.

He also works on establishing how social challenges can affect firms’ financial position by examining the implications of contemporary social issues, including culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit, ESG, terrorism, and religion, on firms’ financial decision-making and overall quality of governance.

Much of his work on emerging market firms has provided theoretical and empirical support for the adoption of mainstream finance theories in the context of emerging markets. His recent work on green bonds funded by the Institute of Capital Markets in Bangladesh provides comprehensive evidence on the adoption and operation of green bonds in Bangladesh’s capital market to promote sustainable development. Other consultancy work includes projects funded by the Asian Development Bank and Work Bank to promote financial sector reform in Bangladesh and examine the viability of microfinance programmes in Bangladesh.

Moshfique has been working at Leeds University Business School since January 2014. Before joining LUBS, he worked at the University of York, Leeds Beckett University, and the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

PhD Supervision

Moshfique is available to supervise Doctoral Candidates in the following topics:

• Financial markets

• Corporate Finance and Corporate Restructuring

• Banking

Activities

Moshfique teaches Foundations of Finance at the UG level and Financial Derivatives at both the UG and PG levels. He has also taught Advanced Financial Management, Portfolio Risk Management, and Corporate Finance.

He worked as our Departmental Director for Internationalisation at LUBS for five years, where he endeavoured to develop international partnerships to promote teaching and research collaboration.

He is currently Associate Editor of Human Resource Management Journal and Editor of the Annals of Corporate Governance. He serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Knowledge Management and works as a Guest Editor for the Journal of Applied Accounting Research and China Financial Review International. His memberships include Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE), a professional body accredited by the Chartered Association of Business Schools, and the British Academy of Management (BAM), with whom he sits on the BAM Financial Management and Corporate Governance Subject Interest Groups.

Visiting academic posts

Current: Visiting Professor at DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, Western University, Canada.

Current: Honorary Professor at Faculty of Business, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Awards and honours

Moshfique received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence at LUBS for three consecutive years and the Best Paper Award at both the British Academy of Management Conference (2009) and the ASCENT International Conference (2013).

Responsibilities

• Associate Editor (Human Resource Management Journal)

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance
• M.Com in Finance
• B.Com (Hons.) in Finance