Dr Simon Norton

Biography

Qualifications

• LLB (Cardiff Law School, University of Wales)
• LLM (Cardiff Law School, University of Wales)
• PhD (Department of Maritime Studies, University of Wales)

Additional activities

Membership of Professional Bodies:

• American Society of Public Administration
• Association of International Accounting
• British Accounting Association
• European Accounting Association
• European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
• International Political Science Association

Publications

Teaching

Teaching commitments

• PhD supervision
• Course Director for first year course, Legal Studies
• Course Director for second year course, Law of Banking, Commerce, and Investment

Additional teaching activities

• Course Director for Marine Insurance for the training body of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers
• External Examiner for Caribbean-based business school in the subject of bank regulation and security
• Supervisor of numerous dissertations on postgraduate degree schemes

Research interests

• Business ethics: banking activity and its impact upon the natural environment
• Corporate governance in the context of financial institutions Banking regulation and financial fragility
• Innovation in the global capital markets
• Islamic finance and financial instruments
• Public sector administration and reform including public private partnerships, private finance initiatives, supreme audit institutions (SAI's)

Research projects

Research currently in progress for 3 and 4 star journal submissions

• Banking sector corporate governance in a developing economy context
• Organisational theory and application in the courtroom
• Supreme audit institutions: a cross-cultural comparative approach.

PhD supervision research interests

• Corporate governance in banking sectors
• Economic development in developing countries
• Islamic banking and finance

Supervision

Past projects