Nicholas Hand, ACCA, MSc, BComm
Director of International Affairs, Principal Lecturer in Finance,
Department of Accounting & Finance,
Nick Hand qualified with the ACCA in 1993, holds a Master degree in Operational Research and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Nick is Director of Partnerships and International in the University of Greenwich Business School. He was previously the Head of Department of Accounting and subsequently spent six years posted overseas, based in China, developing the Business School’s international partnerships. He has substantial experience in the development of academic programs both at the UK campus and at partner institutions internationally and particular in the South-East/East Asia region.
Nick’s research interests are in the areas of efficiency measurement and his publications are mainly in this area and particularly in the area of the application of mathematical models of measuring bank efficiency.
FarhadTaghizadeh-Hesary
Associate Professor of Economics, Tokai University
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
FarhadTaghizadeh-Hesary is an associate professor of economics at Tokai University in Japan, and a visiting professor at Keio University, Japan. He completed his master’s degree in energy economics from Tehran University, Iran, in 2011. Subsequently, He obtained a Ph.D. in energy economics from Keio University in 2015 with a scholarship from the government of Japan (MEXT). He has taught as an assistant professor at Keio following the completion of his Ph.D. until March 2018 and as an assistant professor at the faculty of political science and economics of WasedaUniversity 2018-2020.
He is a recipient of the Excellent Young Researcher (LEADER) status from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of Japan with a five years’ competitive research grant (2019-2024). Presently he is also a visiting professor at Chiang Mai University (Thailand) and a distinguished research fellow and external scientific member at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).
Farhad worked as a visiting scholar, visiting professor, and visiting fellow at several institutions and universities such as the Institute of Energy Economics of Japan (IEEJ) (2013–2015); the Credit Risk Database (CRD) association of Japan (2014–2015); Graduate School of Economics of the University of Tokyo (2016–2017), Griffith University, (Australia; 2019); The University of Tasmania, (Australia; 2019).
He has published a wide range of topics, including energy economics, energy policy, green finance, small and medium-sized enterprises finance, monetary policy, banking, and the Asian and Japanese economies.
He also led, managed, and has been involved in dozens of research, capacity building and training (CBT) and consulting projects on energy, economic, and financial related topics for the international organizations and institutions, including; United Nations; Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank Institute; Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia; Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation Institute; and financial institutions and governments of various countries.
Professor Naoyuki Yoshino
Chief Executive Officer of the ADBI
Naoyuki Yoshino is Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and Professor Emeritus at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University (United States) in 1979 where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters, economic adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Naoyuki has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States) and a visiting professor at various universities including the University of New South Wales (Australia), FondationNationale des Sciences Politiques (France), and University of Gothenburg (Sweden). He has also been an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an economics professor at Keio University.
Naoyuki’s professional career includes membership in numerous government committees. He was named Director of the Japan Financial Services Agency’s (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute) in 2004 and is now Chief Advisor. He was appointed as Chair of the Financial Planning Standards Board in 2007. He has served as Chairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance’s Council on Foreign Exchange as well as its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section). Additionally, he has been a Board Member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan and President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japan.
He was nominated for inclusion in Who’s Who in the World for 2009 and 2013, and was named one of the Top 100 Educators in 2009. He obtained honorary doctorates from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in 2004 and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) in 2013. He also received the Fukuzawa Award in 2013 for his contribution to research on economic policy.