Johan Arifin Sulaeman

Johan SULAEMAN is the Director of the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute at NUS (SGFIN). He is a Dean’s Chair and a Professor in the Department of Finance at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. He recently served as the founding Academic Director of the NUS MSc (Finance) Programme and as the Research Director of the Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments (CAMRI). He is a Scientist and the Director of the PhD programme at the Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF), a Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and has served on the editorial boards of international finance and economics journals. He teaches in various educational programs, including executive education, in courses involving sustainability, core financial concepts, portfolio theory, equity, fixed income, options, futures, investment strategies, and risk management. His current research interests focus on sustainability and impact measurement in the context of the financial sector, as well as the effects of geographic factors on various economic outcomes. He also works on research questions related to the effects of ownership structure on corporate decisions, the role of various economic agents in disturbing and maintaining market efficiency, and discriminations in labor markets and the financial and corporate sectors.His research appears in top economics and business journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, and Management Science. His papers have also been presented at leading conferences, including the American Finance Association and Western Finance Association annual meetings, and the NBER Summer Institute. He obtained his PhD in Finance from University of Texas at Austin (McCombs). He received his Masters of Financial Engineering (MFE) from the Haas School at the University of California, Berkeley, and his BSE in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.