Dr Shumi Akhtar

Associate Professor Dr Shumi Akhtar's research interests are broad, and some of her current research include Multinationals, UN SDGs, ESG, AI/ML, Financial/Cyber-crime, Sustainability, Circular Economy, Critical Minerals and Precious Metals. Her research publications have appeared in leading international and local journals. She was a recipient of an Australian Research Council’s Fellowship, Alternate Australian-US Fulbright and Oxford University Fellowship. Her research has been instrumental in policy and regulatory space especially in Bond, Tax, Diversifying Foreign Investment/International trade Partnership and adopting Sustainable Green Business Practices. She has been invited several times by the Australian Federal Parliament to serve as Expert Witness on critical and important local and international policy matters. She is an active researcher and presents her work at international and Australian conferences including the American Finance Association, American Economic Association, European Financial Management Conference among others. A number of her research papers received local and international prestigious awards. She has engaged in invited research scholar visits to several ivy league US Universities, including Harvard, MIT and Stanford among others.

Dr Akhtar has a broad teaching portfolio encompassing both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She also supervises Honours, Masters and PhD students. She has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence and also the "Top PhD Supervisor" Award.