Education Qualifications

PhD, Finance, London School of Economics, 2005 MPhil, Finance, London School of Economics, 2002 MSc, Finance & Economics, London School of Economics, 1999 BSc (First Class Honours), Economics, University of London, 1998

Academic and Professional Experience

Assistant Professor of Finance, National University of Singapore, 2004 - current Tutorial Fellow in Finance, London School of Economics, 2001 - 2004 Research Assistant, Financial Markets Group, LSE, 2001 - 2004 Doctoral Fellow in Finance, London School of Economics, 2000 - 2002 Lecturer in Economics, University College Lahore, 1999 - 2000

Selected Publications

Working Papers

The Seeds of a Crisis: A Theory of Bank Liquidity and Risk Taking over the Business Cycle, with Viral Acharya Banking Crises and the Lender of Last Resort: How crucial is the role of information? The Valuation of Corporate Debt with Default Risk IMF Conditionality and the Intertemporal Allocation of Resources

Membership And Professional Activities

Affiliated Researcher, Berkeley-NUS Risk Management Institute Member, American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, American Economic Association, Financial Intermediation Research Society Referee: Economic Theory, International Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of European Economics Association (JEEA), Journal of Financial Intermediation, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal,Research in Economics, Review of Finance, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Finance

Research Interests

Banking Corporate finance International finance

Courses

BFA 6003  Corporate Finance BMA5008  Financial Management

Invited Seminar Presentations

Lancaster University Management School, UK, Department of Accounting & Finance seminar, 2009 CEMFI, Madrid, Lunchtime Seminar, 2009 Bundesbank, Frankfurt, 2007 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Department of Finance, Finance seminar, 2007 National University of Singapore, Department of Economics, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics workshop, 2006 Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business, Finance seminar, 2005 University of Florida, Warrington College of Business, Finance seminar, 2005 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Economics seminar, 2005 Global Asset Management (GAM) Open Forum, London, 2004 Bank of England, Financial Stability Department seminar, 2004 Bank of England, Financial Stability Department seminar, 2003 London School of Economics, Financial Markets Group (FMG) Lunch seminar, 2003 International Monetary Fund (IMF), Policy Development & Review (PDR) seminar, 2002

Conference Presentations

24th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association and 64th European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Barcelona, Spain, 2009 Asian Finance Association - Nippon Finance Association International Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 2008 Financial Intermediation Research Soceity (FIRS) Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, 2008 CEPR conference on Banking and Asset Markets: Developments, Risks, and Policy Issues, Banque de France, Paris, 2007 EEA Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, 2007 EFA Annual Meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007 Saw Centre Conference on Finance, Singapore, 2006 Saw Centre Conference on Quantitative Finance, Singapore, 2005 Campus for Finance - New Year's Conference at WHU, Vallendar, Germany 2005 Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2004 South and Southeast Asia Econometrics Society Meeting, Lahore, 2002

Conference Discussions

Asian Finance Association - Nippon Finance Association International Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 2008 Financial Intermediation Research Soceity (FIRS) Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, 2008 EFA Annual Meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007 WFA Annual Meeting, Keystone, Colorado, 2006 Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) Conference on Banking, Corporate Finance and Intermediation, Shanghai, June, 2006

Corporate Experience

Researcher in the International Finance Division of the Financial Stability Wing at the Bank of England, 2003 Economist in the Summer Intern Program of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Worked in the Policy Development & Review Department (PDR), 2002 Intern in the Finance dept of a firm in Lahore, 1997 Intern in Coopers & Lybrand (now PWC), 1996

Prizes and Awards

Accounting & Finance Departmental Award, LSE, 2003 GAM Gilbert de Botton Award for my paper on 'The Valuation of Corporate Debt with Default Risk', 2003 LSE Doctoral Fellowship in Finance, 2000 LSE External Scholarship, 1998 Sir Edward Stern Prize in Economics, 1998 University of London Award for Academic Achievement, 1998 University of London Award for Academic Achievement, 1997 University of London Award for Academic Achievement, 1996 Merit Scholarship given by the Lahore College of Arts & Sciences, 1995