Name:
Dr Mohamed Ariff
Designation:
 Professor of Finance
Qualification:
 PhD Finance, University of Queensland
MBA Finance (Second major: OD), University of Wisconsin, USA
Bachelor Degree in Soc. Sc. (Upper II Hons.), The University of Singapore,
Professional CMA designation
Organization:
 Bond University, Australia
Email:
 mariff@bond.edu.au
Email2:
 Ariff13@gmail.com
Tel no. :
 (617) 5595-2296
Fax no. :
 (617) 5595-2296
URL:
 http://works.bepress.com/mohamed_ariff/doctype.html
Profile
Involvement with UTAR in academic & research


Contact Person:
  -  Assit Prof Dr Dr Chong Yee Lee,
(Faculty of Business and Finance )
Professor Dr Mohamed Ariff is currently the External Examiner for the Bachelor of Finance (Hons.) programme of UTAR.

Employment

  • Professor of Finance, Bond University, Australia (August 2007 – Present)
  • Tenured Professor (Chair) in Finance, Department of Accounting & Finance, Monash University (1996 - 2007)
  • Substantive super-scale staff appointment (re-designated in 1998 as Associate Professor), Department of Accounting and Finance, National University of Singapore (1986 – 1996)

Industry Experience

  • Joint-Manager at Singapore’s central bank (Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Board of Commissioners for Currency)
  • Divisional Manager, Singtel, Singapore
  • Economic Development Board
  • AT&T, Bell Canada and Bundespost, Germany (3 months training at divisional director level)

Teaching Interests

  • Courses cover Advanced Funds Management, Introduction to Finance, Corporate Finance, International Investment Management, International Finance, Asian Capital Markets, Mergers-Acquisition & Financial Restructuring (UCD-Ireland), Corporate Governance: an Applied Finance (University of Tokyo), Mergers-Takeover taught in Executive MBA.

Research Interests

  • Asian capital market behaviour
  • Bank risk analysis and economic efficiency
  • Tax compliance costs; fiscal policy; taxation and income growth
  • Financial liberalization; study of financial crises; crisis and economic growth
  • Corporate Governance of banks & bank performance
  • Islamic banking and finance

Postgraduate Supervision

  • Successfully supervised 31 PhD/DBA students
  • Supervised 60 Honours, 40 advanced MBA studies, 2 MSc and 1 PhD theses in the Department of Finance and Banking at NUS.

Awards

  • Two courses voted Best Taught Courses at graduate level (1999): Winner of 1999 Best Teacher Award, Monash Business School
  • 13 papers and a book chosen for awards as being among best research papers/book in international conferences/universities.
  • A co-authored book on KLSE share market awarded Best Research Book (1998)

Publications

  • Published 104 articles in international refereed journals, 13 articles in regional refereed journals, 9 articles in trade-refereed journals, 24 books, 39 chapters in books and 127 conference papers
  • Professor Dr Mohamed Ariff is a co-author of a top-selling textbook on Investments by Bodie, Rosa, Marcus and Kane published by McGraw-Hill Australia in 2007.

Others

  • President, Asian Finance Association (2004 – 2006)
  • Member of FMA Education Committee, Fall 2004 – 2007
  • Occasional invitation to deliver keynote speech
  • Regular reviewer of scholarly articles and books for tier-1 journals
  • Chief Editor of International Journal of Banking and Finance (a 8-year old journal)
  • Regularly assessor for professorial appointments in several universities in Australia and in the region
  • Served in a number of advisory panels in universities in Asia
  • Have conducted assignments as consultant to international bodies such as ESCAP; IDB; ADB; universities; and private firms