Dr Asma Mobarek

Overview

Asma Mobarek did her PhD from the University of Leeds, UK, on stock market efficiency and asset pricing. She taught at the University of Dhaka, University of Botswana and Stockholm University Business School in the past.

Her current research interest includes consequence of financial crisis on financial markets and investors' behavior during crisis, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility etc. She has completed several internally and externally funded research projects. She was a member of the project team in an EU funded project on Pro-MHI Micro-Health Insurance in Botswana University. She has also obtained approximately GBP175, 000 from Handelsbanken's Jan Wallanders Foundation, Nasdaq OMX Nordic Foundation and Vinnova foundation in Sweden.

Her recent papers are appeared in Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Financial Services Research, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money, Review of Quantitative Finance & Accounting. She is currently working as a guest editor of  open access Sustainability Journal (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/ESG_sus).