Dr Sana Zouari
- Position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: Banking and Finance; Sustainable Finance; Financing issues; SME Finance; Equity Finance
- Email: S.Zouari@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 2.20 Maurice Keyworth
- Website: LinkedIn
Profile
Sana Zouari currently holds the position of Post Doctoral Reserach Fellow at Leeds University Business School. Prior to joining the University of Leeds, she worked as an Adjunct Professor at SKEMA Business School and as a Teaching Assistant at EDHEC Business School.
During her PhD, she has the opportunity to be visiting PhD-student at SKEMA Business School’s Lille campus after obtaining the Eiffel Scholarship provided by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
Research interests
Sana’s academic journey primarly focuses on Access to Finance. More precisely, her research could be divided into two streams: Banking and Finance and SME Finance. Her investigations encompass an understanding of how socially responsible banks enhance access to financial services from an evolutionary perspective. Further, her research around SME Finance explores the problems that small firms face accessing investement capital and increasing their productivity. In this line, she is currently working on ESRC prodictivity project: Understanding how constraints on access to finance and under-investment impact on prodictivity growth in smaller firms-with a focus on equity finance ( venture capital and private equity).
Qualifications
- PhD (thesis prize proposal), University Cote d'Azur
- Master degree (valedictorian), University of Sfax
- Bachelor degree (valedictorian), University of Sfax