International finance researcher, Professor Robert Faff, has taken on a role at Strathclyde Business School in the Accounting and Finance department.
Also a professor at University of Queensland Business School, Professor Faff has over 25 years’ experience as an active researcher in the accounting and finance disciplines.
Prior to this he was Professor of Finance and the Director of Research in the Department of Accounting and Finance at Monash University (2002-2010) and for six years he held the position of Research Professor of Finance at RMIT (1996-2002).
He has an extremely prominent research profile internationally, regionally and domestically. His research publications list exceeds 200 articles in a broad range of refereed international finance, accounting and economics journals (across 59 different titles) including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Business and Journal of Banking and Finance.
A recent article in the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (2005), “Ranking of Finance Programs in the Asia-Pacific Region: An Update”, by Kam Chan, Carl Chen and Peter Lung, assessed the research productivity of 170 Finance Departments at universities based in the Asia Pacific region. The article ranks finance professors based on weighted Journal of Finance – equivalent page counts across 21 journals, and according to this measure over the period 1990-2004, Professor Faff ranked number one in the Asia Pacific region.
In addition, Professor Faff is the current Editor of Accounting and Finance; has presented in excess of 110 research seminars/workshops at domestic and international universities; and has supervised more than 20 successful PhD students.
Most recently, at accounting and finance conference, AFAANZ (Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand), Professor Faff won two awards – Life Membership of AFAANZ and AFAANZ Outstanding Contribution to the Accounting and Finance Research Literature. There are now only 14 life members and 8 Literature awardees. A first visit to Strathclyde is being planned at the moment.