I'm a researcher, lecturer, writer and speaker in finance, spending most of my time reveling in an unhealthy obsession with the opacity of Private Equity and Venture Capital markets and fighting (verbally, naturally) believers in crypto and non-believers in ESG.

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My research is published in a variety of academic journals. Since these are not exactly 'mainstream', I try and make my work more accessible - and perhaps impactful - to a wider audience by speaking at conferences whenever I can, collaborating with industry partners as often as possible, writing more prosaic pieces such as book chapters or op-eds, and trying to badger journalists into covering my work whenever they let me.

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As a staunch believer in free capital markets, I have been keenly involved in a variety of pro bono advisory projects in the area of capital market regulation, mainly to fight regulation. Examples are the ECB Banking Task Force, the EU Liikanen Group, the German Financial Market Stabilization Fund (SoFFin), the Venture Capital ‘Scale-Up’ project for the UK government, or, most recently, ESG Expert Groups in the banking industry, to name but a few.

As my current daytime job, I am Dean of the College of Business at Umm Al Quwain University (UAQU) in the UAE. Prior to joining UAQU I was Associate Professor of Finance at American University in Sharjah, and Barclays Fellow at Saïd Business School (University of Oxford). I earned my doctorate from Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) and hold degrees from European Business School (Germany) and New York University (USA). A year-long sabbatical in which I successfully failed my own London-based FinTech startup is generally not mentioned in my short bio.