Rate My Professor Sirimon Treepongkaruna

Sirimon Treepongkaruna is an Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the UWA Business School at the University of Western Australia. She obtained her Ph.D. in Finance from the School of Commerce at the University of Queensland in 2001, with a dissertation titled 'Essay on one-factor interest rate models.' Her earlier degrees include an MBA in International Finance and Banking from the School of Business and Public Management at The George Washington University in 1994 and a B.Sc. in Statistics (Honours) from the Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy at Chulalongkorn University in 1992. She also earned a Graduate Certificate of Higher Education from Monash University in 2010. Prior to her academic career, Treepongkaruna worked as a Derivatives Dealer and Swap Dealer in the Foreign Exchange Trading Department at Bangkok Bank from 1995 to 1997 and as a System Analyst in the Management Information Systems at the Petroleum Authority of Thailand in 1992.

Treepongkaruna's career includes senior lectureships in Finance at the Department of Accounting and Finance, Monash University (2009-2010), and the School of Finance and Applied Statistics at the Australian National University (2003-2008), as well as lectureships at Lincoln University (2001-2002) and tutoring at the University of Queensland (1999). Her research specializes in international finance and money markets, financial time series modeling such as term structure of interest rates, volatility, jumps, and duration, ultra-high frequency data modeling and market microstructure in international stock and FX markets, crises identification, determinants and spillovers, credit risk including CDS, credit ratings and sovereign ratings, dynamic linkages among international financial markets, asset pricing, and insider trading. She has produced 92 peer-reviewed publications and presented over 40 refereed papers at international conferences. Notable works include 'The impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting on corporate profitability: evidence from Thailand' (2024), 'ESG controversies and corporate governance: Evidence from board size' (2024), 'Climate policy uncertainty and the cross-section of stock returns' (2023), 'Carbon emissions, corporate governance, and staggered boards' (2023), and 'Bitcoin wild moves: Evidence from order flow toxicity and price jumps' (2026). Her accolades encompass two ARC Discovery Grants totaling over $624,000, multiple UWA Business School Research Grants, BHP Billiton Distinguished Research Awards, AFAANZ Research Funds, and designation as a senior research fellow by the National Research Council of Thailand, honored with a plaque from HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.