Rate My Professor Priyantha Mudalige

Dr. Priyantha Mudalige serves as a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the UNE Business School, University of New England, and holds the position of Course Coordinator for Accounting and Finance within the Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law. He earned a B.Sc. in Accountancy and Financial Management (Special) and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Sri Lanka. He completed his PhD in Finance at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, where he began his academic career during his doctoral studies, accumulating over eight years of experience. Previously, he worked as a sessional academic at the University of Adelaide and Flinders University, and at Curtin University, he was Discipline Lead and Course Coordinator in Finance. Priyantha also holds a Diploma in Financial Planning from Kaplan Professionals, along with completions of the Microstructure Course by the Financial Research Network and the Business Analytics and Data Visualisation course at RMIT University in Melbourne. His professional contributions extend to teaching, learning, and research committees at school and faculty levels, curriculum design for undergraduate and postgraduate programs emphasizing multimodal delivery and heutagogical principles, and program accreditation processes, including financial planning at the University of South Australia and Curtin University, as well as reaccreditation of accounting and finance programs at the University of New England.

In addition to finance, Priyantha teaches accounting and financial planning courses, with his teaching excellence recognized through multiple commendations from the Executive Dean and Teaching and Learning grants for multimodal resources. As an active researcher, he collaborates with domestic and international scholars on capital market microstructure—including informed trading, market efficiency, individual and institutional trading, price discovery, liquidity, volatility, insider trading, and market manipulation—corporate finance topics such as firm value, financial constraints, gender and board diversity, supply chain finance, and fintech, environmental finance encompassing green bond issuance, investor attention, ESG, carbon emissions, and trading, and financial planning areas like investor personality traits, risk tolerance, financial literacy, and investor behaviour. Key publications include 'Under the microscope: Trade initiation activities around earnings and takeover announcements in a market with continuous disclosure' (Global Finance Journal, 2024), 'Who Trades in Competing Firms around Earnings Announcements?' (Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2020), 'Do environmentally sustainable practices lead to financially less constrained firms? International evidence' (International Review of Financial Analysis, 2020), 'Individual and institutional trading volume around firm-specific announcements' (International Journal of Managerial Finance, 2016), and 'The effects of environmental regulation on the Singapore stock market' (Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2019). His research has earned best paper awards at prestigious conferences, including the Australasian Finance and Banking Conference. Priyantha is a registered principal supervisor for higher degree research students.