About

I am a Senior Lecturer in Financial Economics. I believe that each student has his or her own unique potential; my role as a senior lecturer will be to help each student develop his or her learning capacity and style.

Teaching responsibilities

As part of the Economics and Finance team, I'm the Programme Leader of BSc (Hons) Economics and Finance and I'm responsible for a number of financial modules. These include financial markets and instruments, investing and financial market behaviour and introductory quantitative analysis. Students in my modules are using real-world financial data to acquire the latest practical skills in the finance sector. They can flexibly apply their knowledge to study current capital market problems. That's the main purpose of every module I have.

Research interests

I am primarily interested in derivative products, credit risk management and financial contagion. I have participated in a number of international conferences and published articles in economic and financial journals. I led the Bloomberg Trading Challenge in 2019 and 2024 as well. My current research concerns credit derivatives and the pricing of assets in financial markets.

Membership of professional bodies

• Member of Royal Economic Society (RBS)
• Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) qualification

Qualifications

Undergraduate

• Bachelor in Commerce

Postgraduate

• MSc in Finance
• PhD Doctorate in Finance

Recent conferences

• ‘Credit Risk Spillover among Sovereigns and Firms: An Analysis of Asian Debt.’ Royal Economic Society, University of Westminster, London, 19-20 December 2017
• ‘Credit Risk among Sovereign and Firms.’ The 14^th INFINITI conference in international finance, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 13-14 June 2016
• ‘The Cross-sectoral transmission of credit risk in Asia.’ The First Annual China Derivatives Markets Conference, Xi’An Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China, 19-20 May 2016
• ‘A Bivariate GARCH Analysis of Credit Risk Spillovers in Asia.’ Scottish Doctoral Colloquium in Accounting and Finance, University of Glasgow, 1 June 2015

Recent publications

• Zha, Y., Power, D., & Tantisantiwong, N. (2020). The cross-country transmission of credit risk between sovereigns and firms in Asia. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance