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Badar Ashraf

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Dr Badar Ashraf

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5750-6414

    Accepting PhD Students

    20142026

    Research activity per year

    Personal profile

    Overview

    I am a Senior Lecturer in Financial Reporting and Audit at LSBU Business School, with over 15 years of international experience across higher education and industry. My academic training is grounded in accounting, finance and economics: I am a Chartered Management Accountant, hold an MA in Economics from the University of the Punjab, and completed my PhD in Finance at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. My industry experience includes working in accounting consultancy as well as in accounting departments within firms in the petroleum and telecommunications sectors. This multidisciplinary background underpins my research and teaching, enabling me to connect individual and firm‑level financial decisions with broader economic, institutional, and regulatory contexts.

    My research focuses on how country‑level formal and informal institutions, economic openness, COVID-19, economic uncertainty, and technology adoption influence firm‑level practices and financial outcomes. 

    I teach international finance and investments, global finance and technology, and finance in a digital world. Alongside my teaching, I actively mentor undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as early‑career researchers, drawing on my international academic and professional experience to support scholarly development and research impact.

    Research Interests

    My research interests lie primarily in banking and financial markets. I examine how institutional and economic environments, including financial regulation, national culture, political institutions, economic openness, and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), interact with major external shocks such as the global financial crisis, the COVID‑19 pandemic, and climate‑related shocks to shape the behaviour, performance, and risk‑taking of banks and financial markets. This body of work provides robust empirical evidence to inform regulators, policymakers, and financial institutions on how institutional structures and sustainable development conditions can amplify or mitigate systemic risk.
    In more recent work, I examine the role of technological innovations, particularly organisational digital transformation, fintech platforms, digital payments infrastructures, and artificial intelligence, in shaping bank performance, bond pricing, and tax collections. This research generates internationally relevant insights into both the opportunities and challenges associated with the adoption of new technologies, and contributes to ongoing debates on digital regulation, financial inclusion, and the effective governance of AI in the banking sector.

    The quality, rigour, and influence of my research are demonstrated by over 50 peer‑reviewed publications, more than 7,460 citations, and an h‑index of 36 (Google Scholar). My work has been published in leading international journals, including the Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Research in International Business and Finance, International Journal of Finance and Economics, and Economic Modelling. I have contributed to shaping scholarly and policy discourse through editing special issues for China Finance Review International and the Journal of Risk and Financial Management. Regular presentations at international conferences further enhance the reach of this research across academic, regulatory, and practitioner communities.

    Subjects Taught

    Postgraduate Teaching:

    International Finance and Investment (Module Leader)

    Advanced Audit & Assurance

    International Financial Reporting

    Corporate Financial Management

     

    Undergraduate Teaching:

    Global Finance and Technology (Module Leader)

    Finance in a Digital World (Module Leader)

    Taxation

    Managing Financial Risk

    Education/Academic qualification

    PGCert HE, London South Bank University

    2024 → 2025

    PhD

    2012 → 2015

    MA in Economics

    2010 → 2012

    Chartered Management Accountant

    2007 → 2010

    External Positions and Roles

    External Examiner, De Montfort University

    2023 → …

    External Examiner, London Metropolitan University

    2022 → …

    Keywords

    • HG Finance
    • Banking
    • Financial markets
    • Cultural finance
    • Fintech
    • Economic policy uncertainty
    • COVID-19

    Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

    In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

    1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
      SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
    2. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
      SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
    3. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
      SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
      SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
    5. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
      SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
    6. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
      SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
    7. SDG 13 - Climate Action
      SDG 13 Climate Action
    8. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
      SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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