Meet the team

The Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity (CFCI) has a strong Research Team and support staff who are not only delivering impactful research affecting policy and governance of UK and international business, but also creating an exciting and innovative environment for Post Graduate Researchers and early career researchers.

Core staff

The core staff at the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity are highly skilled researchers and each contribute unique background and expertise to promote our vast research portfolio.

Visiting Professors/Scholars

Visiting academics are an important asset to any research teams. Our Visiting Professors/Scholars are a valuable addition to the CFCI team and compliment the expertise of our Core staff.

Professor Michael Adams

Western Sydney University, Australia

Professor Adams is an internationally recognised specialist in corporate law, governance, securities markets regulation. He has been writing, teaching and regularly presenting on all these topics for over 20 years.

Professor Nicholas Ryder

University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Prof Ryder is a Professor in Financial Crime who has authored four monographs The Financial War on Terror (2015), The Financial Crisis and White Collar Crime (2014), Money laundering an endless cycle (2012) and Financial Crime in the 21^st Century (2011). Nicholas has also published two edited collections The Financial Crisis and White Collar Crime - Legislative and Policy Responses (2017) and Fighting Financial Crime in the Global Economic Crisis: Policy, Trends and Sanctions (2014).

He has also authored three text books The Law Relating to Financial Crime in the United Kingdom (2013 and 2016) and Commercial Law: Principles and Policy (2012). Nicholas is the series founder and editor for Routledge's The Law Relating to Financial Crime and is a member of several editorial boards and contributing editor for Goode: Consumer Credit Law and Practice. Nicholas is the Co-I for the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats.

Professor Mahmoud Mohieldin

Cairo University, Egypt

Professor Mohieldin is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science and an economist with more than 30 years of experience in international finance and development.

He is the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for Egypt. He is an Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund and has been the United Nations Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda since February 2020.

Professor Douglas Cumming

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida

Douglas Cumming, J.D., Ph.D., CFA, is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Douglas is also a Visiting Professor of Finance at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. Previously, Douglas was a Professor and the Ontario Research Chair at the Schulich School of Business, York University, in Toronto, Canada from 2007-2018. He has held prior visiting appointments at Essex Business School, Kobe University, EMLyon, RMIT, and University of Bergamo, among others.

Douglas is the Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Corporate Finance. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics. He is a former Managing Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management and the Journal of Corporate Finance. He is an Editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review. He is the Founding Editor of Annals of Corporate Governance and a former Co-Editor of Finance Research Letters and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Economic Modelling, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Studies in Economics and Finance, and an Editorial Board member of numerous academic journals.

In November 2022, Douglas was listed by Clarivate as one of the top 92 most cited researchers in the world in the business and economics category. Douglas' work has been cited over 27,500 times according to Google Scholar.

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