- Professor of Finance and Head of Discipline, Accounting and Finance, Australian Catholic University
Professor Md Akhtaruzzaman is ranked the number one researcher in Finance in Australia by The Australian Research Magazine in both 2024 and 2025 and is listed in the Stanford–Elsevier Top 2% Scientists (2024). He is the Head of the Discipline of Accounting and Finance at Australian Catholic University (ACU) and served on ACU’s Academic Board.
He has extensive industry experience, including as a board member of a credit rating company. He served as Managing Director of a risk management consulting firm in Singapore and previously held the role of Assistant Vice President at a commercial bank. He worked as a consultant on asset and liability management in banks, Basel II/III, risk management in banking, and advanced Excel modelling in Australia, South Africa, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Nepal, and Bangladesh. He is a Chartered Accountant (CA) and a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA).
He received the Best Paper Award at the 81st Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2021) for “Culture and Mixed Signals: Does ESG reduce risk everywhere?”. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Accounting Literature (ABDC A-ranked) and is an Associate Editor of Economic Analysis and Policy, The Journal of Risk Finance, and the International Journal of Financial Studies.
He is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE and has received several learning and teaching awards for excellence, including the 2020 ACU Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, the 2022 FLB Innovation Award, and the Executive Dean’s Innovation in Assessment Practices Award (2020). He is a regular media contributor on contemporary issues, and his interview about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was broadcast on SBS prime-time news at 6.30 pm.
Experience
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2026–presentProfessor of Finance and Head of Discipline, Accounting, Finance and Economics, Australian Catholic University
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2023–2025Associate Professor of Finance and Head of Discipline, Accounting, Finance and Economics, Australian Catholic University
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2022–2023Associate Professor of Finance, Edith Cowan University
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2022–2022Senior Lecturer in Finance, Australian Catholic University
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2018–2022Head of Discipline, Accounting and Finance, Australian Catholic University
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2017–2021Lecturer in Finance, Australian Catholic University
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2015–2016Lecturer in Finance, The University of Newcastle
Education
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2024Management Development Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
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2023The University of Newcastle, Australia, Grad Certificate in Data Science
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2019CPA, CPA Australia
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2019Chartered Accountant, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
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2018Australian Catholic University, Grad Certificate in Higher Education
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2013The University of Newcastle, Australia, PhD (Finance)
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2003MBA in Finance, IBA, University of Dhaka
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1998Masters in Bank Management, BIBM, Dhaka
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1996Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), Banaras Hindu University, India
Contact Md for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Sydney
- Website
- X (formerly Twitter): @akhtar1974
- Article Feed
- ORCID
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