Arman Eshraghi

Arman Eshraghi is a professor of finance with 15 years of experience in academic research, education and leadership following a professional background in financial services. He leads two interdisciplinary research groups on financial technology and behavioral finance, serves as managing/associate editor in several peer-reviewed journals, and acts as consultant to financial firms. His research spans across investments, behavioral finance, corporate finance and financial technology.

Prof. Eshraghi holds the Chair of Finance and Investment at Cardiff Business School. He is a founding director of the Cardiff Fintech Research Group, Fintech Theme Lead at the Digital Transformation Innovation Institute, and a member of the Centre for Innovation Policy Research. Beyond Cardiff, he is a Shimomura Fellow of the Development Bank of Japan, Erskine Fellow of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty at University College London, Chair of the British Accounting and Finance Association Professorial Committee, and co-director of the Behavioural Finance Working Group.

His academic research spans finance and accounting with broad interests including investments, behavioural/corporate finance, financial technology and interdisciplinary accounting. A core theme of his research examines the financial decisions of retail investors, fund managers, analysts and corporate executives, as well as any associated inefficiencies in financial markets. His work is cited in the Financial Times, Washington Post, Forbes, Bloomberg, BBC and Euronews, and has contributed to handbooks published by Cambridge University Press, Wiley, Springer, Routledge and Emerald.

His research is published across various journals in finance (including Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, European Financial Management, Journal of International Money and Finance, Financial Review), in accounting (including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Accounting and Business Research), and in management (including Harvard Business Review, British Journal of Management). Prof. Eshraghi actively contributes to editing finance journals as Editor-in-Chief of International Review of Economics and Finance, Senior Associate Editor of Finance Research Letters and Global Finance Journal, and Associate Editor of Economic Modelling and Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment.

Beyond academia, Prof. Eshraghi engages with organisations in the finance sector to offer bespoke research and training. He has given invited talks at the Federal Reserve Bank (New York), Centre for European Economic Research (Mannheim), National Institute of Securities Markets (Mumbai), and UK organisations such as the Office for National Statistics, Alan Turing Institute, CFA Society UK and CityUK. Formerly, Prof. Eshraghi was at the University of Edinburgh Business School with visiting positions at the University of Manchester and UCL, plus some years of industry experience in financial services prior to academia.

Financial Services Firms, Central Banks (Federal Reserve), Government Agencies (Office for National Statistics), Technology Companies, Fintech Startups, CFA Institutes, Asset Management Firms, Media Organizations, Academic Institutions, International Organizations.