Rate My Professor Thi Ngoc Quynh Le

Thi Ngoc Quynh Le, professionally known as Thi Le, serves as a Lecturer in Accounting and Finance within the Murdoch Business School at Murdoch University. She obtained her PhD from the same institution in 2020, with her doctoral thesis entitled "Analysing intraday implied volatility for pricing currency options," supervised by Ariful Hoque. Prior to her current role, which began in 2023, Dr. Le accumulated ten years of teaching experience in finance across industry and academia, including a position as Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Thuongmai University from 2008 to 2016.

Dr. Le's research focuses on fintech and finance, encompassing financial literacy, inclusive finance, digital banking transformation, big data in banking, SME resilience, and corporate governance. Her publications have amassed over 988 citations on Google Scholar. Key works include "How does financial literacy impact on inclusive finance?" (2021, Financial Innovation, with M. Hasan and A. Hoque, 558 citations), which investigates financial knowledge's role in inclusive services; "Does digital transformation reduce bank's risk-taking? Evidence from Vietnamese commercial banks" (2024, Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 51 citations); "Factors impacting SME business resilience post-COVID-19" (2022, Sustainability, 49 citations); "Big data-driven banking operations: Opportunities, challenges, and data security perspectives" (2023, FinTech, 31 citations); and "The effect of corporate governance elements on corporate social responsibility reporting of listed companies in Vietnam" (2023, Cogent Business & Management, 38 citations). She also co-authored "Does Currency Smirk Predict Foreign Exchange Return?" (2020), extending her thesis on volatility in currency markets.

Dr. Le engages in PhD supervision, chairs conference sessions like those at the Vietnam Symposium in Supply Chain Management, and serves on the editorial team of the Journal of Trade Science. Her collaborations with scholars such as Ariful Hoque and Ferry Jie enhance discourse on financial innovation and sustainability.