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Raymond da Silva Rosa is the Winthrop Professor of Finance at the UWA Business School, University of Western Australia, where he obtained his BCom and PhD degrees. He serves as an elected member of UWA Senate and a member of UWA Academic Council. Previously, he was President of the UWA Academic Staff Association and President of the Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. Da Silva Rosa holds the position of Independent Director at Absolute Equity Performance Fund Limited (ASX: AEG) and is a Fellow at St Catherine's College. He is a member of the editorial boards for Accounting and Finance and Australian Journal of Management. His career trajectory includes Head of Accounting & Finance at UWA Business School from July 2008 to December 2011, Associate Dean – International at UWA Business School from August 2010 to November 2012, Associate Professor at UWA from 2001 to 2007, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney from 1998 to 2001. He lectures in Investment Analysis at the third-year undergraduate level, Advanced Corporate Finance at the fourth-year honours level, and Managerial Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions at the MBA level. Earlier teaching experience encompasses MBA courses at Melbourne Business School, master's programs at the University of Sydney, and Behavioural Finance at Stern School of Business, New York University from January to June 2008.

Da Silva Rosa's research specializations encompass mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance with a focus on the market for directors, the role of networks in capital markets, and behavioural finance. His future research interests include the role of networks in raising capital for micro-cap firms, the market for directors of listed companies, the impact of natural disasters on investment choices, and mergers and acquisitions. He has received multiple Australian Research Council Discovery and Large Grants totaling over $1 million between 1997 and 2014, such as $190,000 for 'Schemes of arrangement versus takeovers' (2012–2014), $179,000 for 'The role of directors in corporate takeovers' (2007–2009), $140,750 for 'The impact of corporate ownership structure and board composition on corporate information disclosures' (2001–2003), and $149,000 for 'Corporate Performance following Takeover Bids' (1997–1999). Additional funding includes $120,000 from the Centre for International Finance and Regulation in 2015 and grants from Colonial First State Global Asset Management exceeding $60,000 since 2012. Key publications include 'Lower Defeat Thresholds for Minority Shareholders and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the Australian “Two-Strikes” Rule' (The Accounting Review, 2023), 'Show me your hand: An examination of voting methods at annual general meetings' (Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 2024), 'Choice of acquisition form in Australia and the post-takeover employment of target firm directors on the acquiring firm board' (Accounting and Finance, 2019), and 'Web-based experimental economics software: How do they compare to desirable features?' (Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2019). He has produced 49 research outputs, comprising 26 articles, 14 conference papers, 3 book chapters, and 2 reviews.