Lee Smales – The Conversation

Professor, Finance, The University of Western Australia

Lee Smales is a professor of finance with the Discipline of Accounting & Finance at University of Western Australia (UWA), and is former Head of Discipline. Previously, Lee was at Curtin Graduate School of Business, Curtin University School of Economics & Finance, and University of New South Wales where he also completed his PhD.

Prior to embarking on his academic career, Lee spent 8 years working for a major U.S. investment bank trading foreign-exchange and interest rate derivatives. Lee’s research interests are closely aligned with this prior career and focus on financial markets, and in particular the market response to news-events and the impact of prevailing sentiment and microstructure on this reaction.

Lee has published in leading journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Empirical Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Accounting & Finance, International Review of Finance, Applied Economics, The Economic Record, and the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. Lee is associate editor with Pacific-Basin Finance Journal.

Lee has won awards for research and teaching and is also a CFA Charterholder.

Experience

2018–2021

Associate Professor, University of Western Australia
2016–2018

Associate Professor, Curtin University
2013–2016

Senior Lecturer, Curtin University
2011–2013

Associate Lecturer, University of New South Wales
2000–2007

Vice President, Citigroup

Education

2013

University of New South Wales, PhD
2009

Australian Graduate School of Management, MBA
2000

University of Southampton, MSc
1998

University of Warwick, BSc (Hons)

Professional Memberships

CFA Institute
Economic Society of Australia

Research Areas

Banking, Finance And Investment (1502)
Applied Economics (1402)

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