Our People

Advisors

  • Geert Bekaert
    Leon G Cooperman Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School, New York City
  • Dr Matthieu Bussière
    Director, Monetary and Financial Studies, Banque de France
  • Dr Jonathan Ostry
    Professor of Economics, Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto

Fellows

  • Kate Phylaktis
    Professor of International Finance and Director of the Emerging Markets Group
  • Muhammad Aftab
    Professor (Associate), Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad
  • Chiara Banti
    Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Finance, Essex Business School
  • Barbara Casu 
    Professor of Banking and Finance & Director of Centre for Banking Research
  • Alec Chrystal
    Emeritus Professor
  • Manthos Delis
    Professor of Finance, University of Audencia
  • Ana-Maria Fuertes
    Professor of Finance and Econometrics
  • Elena Kalotychou
    Assistant Professor in Finance, School of Management and Economics, Cyprus University of Technology
  • Ali M. Kutan
    Professor of Economics and Finance, Southern Illinois University
  • Ian Marsh
    Professor of Finance
  • Yaz Gulnar Muradoglu
    Professor of Finance, University of Illinois Springfield
  • Ceylan Onay
    Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Brighton
  • Richard Payne
    Professor of Finance and Deputy-Dean of Bayes Business School
  • Lucio Sarno
    Professor of Finance,  JM Keynes Fellow in Financial Economics, University of Cambridge
  • Maik Schmeling
    Professor of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Sotiris Staikouras
    Associate Professor in Finance
  • Giovanni Urga
    Professor of Finance & Econometrics and Director of the Centre for Econometric Analysis
  • Cheng Yan
    Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • Joe Delvaux

PhD Students

  • Joe Delveaux 
    "Essays on Sovereign debt in Sub-Sahara Africa"
  • Gao Nicole “The financial system in China: In the Shadow of Banks: The Production of Safe Assets in China”.
  • Zheng Zhang "Climate transition risk and FX Market”

Visiting professors

  • Nicholas Sarantis
    Visiting Professor of International Finance, Bayes Business School. His research interests include international finance, exchange rate modelling and forecasting, currency and financial crises, country risk, financial globalisation, banking regulation, forecasting financial markets, and EMU: The Euro and European Financial Markets. He will be visiting from October 2010 to November 2013.
  • Fang Liu 
    Associate Professor of Finance, International Business School, Beijing Foreign Studies University, visiting EMG June-Nov 2025
  • Francesca Carrieri
    Professor of Finance, McGill University, Montreal. She visited EMG between January to June 2009.
  • Anthony Saunders
    John M. Schiff Professor of Finance at Stern School Of Business, New York University, October 2007 to September 2008.