Arif Khurshed

Biography

Arif completed his PhD from the ICMA Centre, University of Reading and joined the University of Manchester as a post-doctoral research associate in 1999. A year later he took up a lectureship in Finance. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005 and then to Professor of Finance in 2013.

Arif is on the editorial board of the British Accounting Review and have been an external consultant to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (formerly FSA) and the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA).  He is one of the founding members of the British Northern Universities India Forum (BNUIF) which was setup in 2008 to produce and disseminate research surrounding issues of economic development in India.