Sumon Bhaumik received his undergraduate education at Presidency College, Calcutta, and got his masters and doctoral degrees in Economics from the University of Southern California. Since then, he has worked both within and outside of academics in Bulgaria, Germany, India and the United Kingdom. He joined the University of Sheffield in 2014. His research interests are wide ranging, and include corporate governance and firm performance, banks and credit markets, and impact of economic (including financial sector) reforms. He has published widely, including in high profile journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Comparative Economics. In the past decade, he has also worked on a number of projects funded by ESRC, DfID, NESTA, UKTI and UKIERI.
I am currently the Head of the Economics Department at the University of Pretoria, and the Managing Editor of the South African Journal of Economics. I received my BA (Economics) from the Oregon State University, and my MA and PhD (Economics) from the Pennsylvania State University.
Stephen joined the Monash Business School on 1 January 2016. Appointed on a 0.4 basis, he will spend four months each year at the Monash Business School while transitioning to emeritus status as the David S. Loeb Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. Stephen has published widely in a range of high quality journals, including Econometrica, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Business. He is the author of five books, two of which have been translated into Japanese. As well as serving on a number of editorial boards, Stephen was a founding editor of the Review of Financial Studies (A*) and has just stepped down as Managing Editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (A*). Stephen has recently been appointed Executive Editor of the Financial Analysts Journal. The FAJ is a leading publication with a print subscription of 130,000, and an ever growing online presence with article downloads reaching over 800,000 in the past financial year. This journal has a significant impact in the investment management community world-wide, due to its practitioner-relevant focus.
My research interests fall within the International Relations of the Middle East and are driven by the interaction of three themes: Religion and Legitimacy; Contested Sovereignty; and Political Violence. I am especially interested in the following areas: Islam, the state and umma 'Soft power' security dilemmas Gulf politics Internal-external security dilemmas Re-conceptualising sovereignty Irredentist and secessionist movements Gulf security Hizballah The Internet and 'cyber sovereignty'
Scott Lucas became Professor of International Politics in 2014, having been on the staff of the University of Birmingham since 1989 and a Professor of American Studies since 1997. He began his career as a specialist in US and British foreign policy, but his research interests now also cover current international affairs – especially North Africa, the Middle East, and Iran – New Media, and Intelligence Services. A professional journalist since 1979, Professor Lucas is the founder and editor of EA WorldView, a leading website in daily news and analysis of Iran, Turkey, Syria, and the wider Middle East, as well as US foreign policy.
