Accounting, Finance and Economics staff
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Dr James Foye
Lecturer in Finance
James Foye holds a Master’s degree in Investment Management from City University, London and a PhD from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Prior to embarking on an academic career, he spent nine years working in financial markets as an equities analyst and fund manager. James predominantly teaches courses in finance and...
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Dr Abdul Ghafoor
Lecturer (Finance)
Abdul Ghafoor is Lecturer of Finance at Birmingham City University. Previously, he worked as Lecturer of Finance at Monash University. He is also a Non-resident Research Fellow at IPAG Business School Paris, France. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. His areas of research are corporate finance,...
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Kevin Glasby
Associate Professor in Accounting and Finance
Kevin Glasby has taught in further and higher education for 30 years specialising in the application of statistics and decision making techniques. He has taught on undergraduate, postgraduate and professional accountancy courses throughout this time. In recent years Kevin has become more involved in the management of...
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Dr Paul Heap
Senior Lecturer in Economics
After completing his DPhil ‘General Equilibrium Models of Monetary Economies’, Paul Heap held temporary lectureships at the Universities of Manchester, Bristol and Bath. He was then a tutor at the University of Nottingham, before coming to work at BCU.
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Mark Holmes
Senior Lecturer in Financial Accounting
Mark has recently joined BCU after working at other local universities. Prior to moving into education Mark had spent a number of years at Ernst & Young LLP, where he became a Chartered Accountant (ICAS) working with a range of blue-chip clients and a focus on corporate tax. He then moved into education where he taught in...
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Rachel Homer
Senior Lecturer
Rachel Homer came to the Business School after a successful career in industry with Cadbury Schweppes, with whom she qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant while working in the areas of Internal Audit, Management Accounting and IT Project Management.
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Dr Sunny Hong
Lecturer in Accounting
Before joining the Department of Accountancy and Governance at BCU, Sunny worked as a full-time Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the University of Sunderland. During her PhD at the University of Bradford, she has been a Teaching Assistant in various accounting modules. Her PhD thesis investigates non-financial information...
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Mark Hunt
Senior teaching fellow
Mark Hunt worked in the accountancy profession in Birmingham city centre for over 25 years, specialising in all areas of taxation before moving into a teaching role. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and sits on the local branch committee. Mark is the author of the book “UK Taxation: a simplified guide for...
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Professor Javed Hussain
Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance
Professor Javed Hussain is Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at Birmingham City University, where he currently leads the Accounting and Finance Group. Professor Hussain supervises a number of PhDs in the areas of corporate, micro and small business finance.
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Samira Iltaf
Lecturer in Accounting
Samira is an ACCA-qualified accountant. She joined BCU in 2019 after working in practice for over 5 years. She is a Doctoral Candidate researching in Higher Education, a Lecturer in Accountancy, and a Course Leader of BSc Accounting and Finance in the college of Accounting, Finance, and Economics. She has taught many subjects...