Qualifications:

BA (Hons), MA, PhD, LLB (Law)

Areas of Research:

Operations Management, Corporate Governance, Corporate Crisis Management, Finance, Environmental Economics, Welfare Economics, Capital Budgeting, Social Economics, E-Commerce, Financial Econometrics, Economic Growth and Development, and Health Economics.

One of his areas of interests is logistics and supply chain management where he has written publications and has experience in teaching (at the doctorate level), doctorate supervision, and research.

Resume:

He has taught for more than 15 years at different universities in various countries.

He is associated with the Financial Modelling Program and the Law and Economics program. He is an associate of the following institutes and centres:  Institute for Sustainability and Innovation, Centre for International Corporate Governance Research, and  Institute for Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

He has taught for more than 15 years at different universities in various countries. He has published 15 books and monographs and more than 150 technical papers. His research has gained international reputation.

Some Selected Research Books

Empirical Finance, with Sethapong Watanapalachaikul,  (in the Physica series Contributions to Economics), 2004, 310 pages, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.

Applied Financial Econometrics in E-Commerce, 2003, with K. B Oh, Series Contributions to Economic Analysis, North Holland Publishing, Amsterdam.

Optimal Control Models in Finance: A New Computational Approach, (2004, forthcoming) with Ping Chen,  Series: Applied Optimisation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

Economic Growth and Social Welfare, 2004, with Matthew Clarke, Series Contributions  to Economic Analysis, North Holland Publishing, Amsterdam

Operations Research Methods: Some Selected Production, Distribution, and Inventory Management Applications, with B. Craven, submitted to a commercial publisher.

Optimal Growth Economics: An Investigation of the Contemporary Issues, and  Sustainability Implications, about 525 pages, 2001, North Holland Publishing, Series Contributions  to Economic Analysis, Amsterdam.

 Corporate Crisis Management: Issues, Mathematical Modelling, Strategies, and Small and Medium Size Enterprise Applications with M. Aba-Bulgu, accepted by a commercial publisher.

Normative Health Economics: A New Approach to Cost Benefit Analysis, Mathematical Models and Applications with Christina Mak, accepted by a commercial publisher.