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Role

Jeremy Cheah is Associate Professor of Decentralised Finance at Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Business School (NBS) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Digital Finance at the University of Southampton. In August 2021, he was chosen to participate in the 2021/22 inaugural NTU Vice-Chancellor's Future Research Leaders programme after a highly competitive University-wide selection process. He was also appointed as an inaugural member of the (since January 2022) and has been appointed as a member (since 27 January 2025).

He is the Accounting and Finance Joint PhD Coordinator, where he leads the PhD programme on behalf of the Accounting and Finance Department. Jeremy is also a line manager for three senior lecturers. In his role, he supports the Accounting and Finance Department Head by line managing the day-to-day duties and responsibilities, such as setting appraisal objectives, appraising staff, and observing colleagues’ teaching. Furthermore, he assists in recruiting new staff and mentors early-career researchers.

He leads two postgraduate taught modules, Corporate Restructuring and Valuation of Investment Products, and is also involved in teaching the Principles of Financial Technology postgraduate taught module. He is also engaged in Business Report Projects and Consultancy projects for taught postgraduate modules. Jeremy is an experienced teacher with over 25 years of teaching experience. He uses the Inverse Research Questions Pyramid to help postgraduate students identify and construct research questions for their dissertation projects. He was also one of the nominees for the Most Engaging Lecturer Award by the University of Southampton Students' Union in 2019.

Career overview

He joined NBS in August 2019 after spending almost three years at the Southampton Business School of the University of Southampton as Associate Professor of Finance. Before joining SBS, he had a short stint working at Sheffield Business School at Sheffield Hallam University (2016) as Reader in Finance. He also held various appointments including Lecturer in Finance at Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield (2011 to 2016) and Assistant Professor of Financial Markets at Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé University Business School, University of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Malaysia Campus (2003 to 2008). He began his academic career in 1999 as a lecturer in various appointments in leading public and private universities, university colleges and colleges in Malaysia and has since also held visiting teaching appointments in Bulgaria, Greece, and Singapore.

He has also been a Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA) since 2018.

Jeremy was awarded a full scholarship with a full fee waiver and a monthly stipend by the University of Southampton to pursue his PhD. He began his PhD in October 2008, completed his research work after two years and five months, and was eventually awarded his PhD in May 2011. During his PhD, he published two papers in the British Journal of Management (ABS 2024-4*; after one round of minor revision) and Applied Economics (ABS 2024-2*; paper accepted after reducing the length of the paper but no other changes required), respectively.

External activity

Jeremy has attracted over £650,000 worth of internal and external grant funding, various types of sponsorships, and awards. In particular, he received the ESRC Impact Acceleration Award worth £260,000 in 2018. He also secured ESRC SCDTP funding for a post-doctoral fellow position and an ESRC SCDTP PhD Scholarship, totalling about £200,000 in 2019.

He also secured a JPA PhD scholarship from the Malaysian government to supervise a PhD student worth up to £180,000 in 2018. He also held further grants from ESRC training bursary, Santander Research Mobility Award, and others, amounting to about £10,000.

In addition, Jeremy has won numerous awards, including an award to study a Summer School module (Forecasting Financial Markets) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2006. From 2003 to 2008, he secured eight corporate sponsorships to attend seminars held by Harvard Business School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University faculty members.

He also has considerable experience consulting public and private organisations, including Birmingham City Council in the UK and the Securities Commission in Malaysia.

He has also been invited to the prestigious 22nd Conference of the Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), which was held in June 2021 in Korea, as Chair of the Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and Risk Management in Financial Technology stream.

He is currently a member of the (from 2024 - now). He also sat on the Editorial Board of Heliyon in 2018-2019.

He has acted as an ad-hoc grant application reviewer for the Danish Council for Independent Research and the Czech Science Foundation. He has been appointed as a member (since 27 January 2025) and an inaugural member of the (since January 2022).

Executive Guest Editor (2025) – Call for Papers for Special Issue of the British Accounting Review (ABS3*) – Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Finance Research and Practice. For more information about the BAR Special Issue, see:

He was also an international external assessor for promotion to Associate Professor for Florida Atlantic University (USA) and Massey University (NZ).

He is the founder and main organiser of the highly successful Accounting and Finance Department annual conference:

Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets and Banking

• Conference keynote speakers included: Professor Brian Lucey (Trinity College Dublin, Editor of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Review of Financial Analysis, ABS 2024-3*; 2023); Professor Dimitri Vayanos (LSE, Past Managing Editor of Review of Economic Studies, ABS 2024-4**, FT50; 2024); Professor Cheng-Few Lee (Rutgers University, Editor of Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, ABS 2024-3*; 2024); Professor Douglas Cumming (Florida Atlantic University, Past Editor of Journal of Corporate Finance, ABS 2024-4*; 2023 and 2024); Associate Professor Sofia Johan (Florida Atlantic University, Associate Editor of British Journal of Management, ABS 2024-4*; 2023); Professor Michael S. Pagano (Villanova University, Joint Editor of The Financial Review, ABS 2024-3*; 2024); Associate Professor Tina Yang (University of South Florida, Joint Editor of The Financial Review, ABS 2024-3*; 2024); Associate Professor Muhammad Ali Nassir (University of Leeds, Associate Editor of Journal of Environmental Management, ABS 2018-3*; 2024); Professor Sir Oliver Hart (2016 Nobel Prize Winner, Harvard University; 2025),  Professor Tarun Ramadorai (Editor of Review of Financial Studies, ABS 2024-4**, FT50; 2025), Professor Thierry Foucault (Co-Managing Editor of Journal of Financial Quantitative and Analysis, ABS2024-4*, FT50; 2025); Professor Dirk Jenter (Associate Editor of Journal of Finance, ABS 2024-4**, FT50; 2025).

• Papers submitted to the conference included submissions from Harvard University, Columbia University, Imperial College, Yale University, University of Tokyo, University of Maryland,  University of North Carolina, London Business School, Pennsylvania State University, Santa Clara University, Baruch College, University of Quebec, Rice University, Rutgers University, Bocconi University, Duke University, Athens University of Economics and Business, University of the Aegean,  Bank of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Settlement, Central Bank of Chile, Central Bank of Ireland, Tilburg University, National Bank of Moldova, McGill University, University of Turin, Deakin University, University of Texas (Rio Grande Valley and Dallas), Laval University, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hiroshima University, KU Leuven, University of Florida, Bar Ilan University, University of West Attica, Boston College, Indian Institute of Management (Shilong), Warsaw School of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Yeshiva University, Macquarie University, Cyprus University of Technology,  Gutenberg University of Mainz, University of New South Wales, University of Vaasa, Northeastern University, Vilnius University,  Universiti Sains Malaysia, Soochow University, various UK universities (Edinburgh, Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Trent, Kingston, Leeds, Exeter, Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé, Bath, Southampton, Reading, Loughborough, London South Bank, Lancaster, Dundee, Cranfield, Anglia Ruskin, Glasgow, Durham, Glasgow Caledonian, Roehampton, etc.)

• Special Issues/Sections/Collaborations linked to the conference: The Financial Review (ABS 2024-3*), Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Journal of Finance and Economics (ABS 2024-3*), and British Accounting Review (ABS 2024-3*)

Additionally, he is also the founder and main organiser of the MAN organises events with mid-career researchers in mind:

• Mental Health and Well-Being for Mid-Career Academics (Speaker: Professor Mario Weick, Durham University)

• Finance Titans of Our Age (Speaker: Professor Cheng-Few Lee, Rutgers University)

• Promotion: To Persevere or Leave (Speaker: Professor Emanuele Bajo, University of Bologna)

• Female and Minorities in Finance Academia (Panel Speakers: Professor Mila Sherman - University of Massachusetts; Associate Professor Tina Tianxia Yang - University of South Florida; Professor Bonnie Buchanan - University of Surrey; Professor Mike Pagano - Villanova University)

Contact: info@midcareernetwork.com