Rate My Professor Javed Kamal

Dr. Javed Kamal serves as a Lecturer in Finance within the Malaysia School of Business at Monash University, having joined in February 2024. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at East West University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 2020 to 2024. Earlier in his career, from 2010 to 2016, he worked as an investment banker. His academic qualifications include a PhD in Economics from the University of Newcastle, Australia, completed in 2019; a Master of Social Sciences in Economics from East West University in 2014; and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Dhaka in 2010.

Dr. Kamal's research specializes in asset pricing, sustainable finance, commodities, and economic uncertainty. He has made significant contributions through publications in high-quality journals. Notable works include "Blessings or curse: how do media climate change concerns affect commodity tail risk spillovers?" published in the Journal of Commodity Markets in 2024, co-authored with Linh Pham; "Asset returns and economic uncertainty: a cross-country analysis" in the American Business Review in 2024, with Akhand Akhtar Hossain, Omar Al Farooque, and Mark Wohar; "Is Carbon a new portfolio diversifier? Examining the relationship between global carbon pricing, sustainable and conventional assets" in the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment in 2025, with Rubaiyat Ahsan Bhuiyan; and "Estimating the causal impact of the Paris agreement on the ESG market: a Bayesian structural time-series approach" in the Journal of Environmental Management in 2025, with B. Naysary, S. N. Mirpoorian, and K. Shrestha. Additionally, he has published in Resources Policy and International Economics, and contributed a chapter "Islamic versus mainstream bank behavior using agent-based modelling simulation" in 2025.

In recognition of his work, Dr. Kamal received the Best Paper Award at the 11th FIFC Conference in March 2021 and earned a Climate Risk, Valuation, and Investing Certificate in October 2025. He serves as a reviewer for journals including Economic Modelling and Resources Policy. Currently accepting PhD students, his supervision interests focus on sustainable finance and the effects of economic uncertainty, influencing ongoing discourse in financial economics and climate-related financial risks.