Rate My Professor Shumi Akhtar

Akhtar serves as Associate Editor for the Pacific Basin Finance Journal. She received the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Alternate Australian-US Fulbright and Oxford University Fellowship, Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, and Top PhD Supervisor Award. Her expertise has contributed to policy discussions, with submissions and expert testimony to the Australian Federal Parliament on central clearing of bonds and repos, critical minerals supply, tax evasion by multinationals, and sustainable business practices. She presents at international conferences including the American Finance Association, American Economic Association, and European Financial Management Association. Akhtar teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in corporate finance, international finance, investment, risk management, financial statistics, corporate valuations, and mergers and acquisitions. She supervises Honours, Masters, and PhD students and participates in projects such as dealing with curses of dimensionality in research-based degree supervision. She is a member of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, Net Zero Institute, and University of Sydney Nano Institute.