PhD students

I am a PhD student at the University of St Andrews Business School.

Before pursuing my PhD, I worked for the largest commercial bank in Vietnam (BIDV) for 17 years in various positions, recently as a Vice President, Head of Asia, Development Financial Institutions and Sustainable Finance at Financial Institutions Group.

I hold an MSc in Money, Banking, and Finance from the University of Birmingham under the UK government’s Chevening Scholarship and a Bachelor of Finance – Banking from the Banking Academy of Vietnam.

I am currently conducting research in banking with an emphasis on Green Lending. Specifically, I’m considering a PhD project exploring the impact of Net Zero emissions policies on bank lending in developing countries. My research interests also include advancement in sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

My PhD is funded by a University of St Andrews School of Management PhD Studentship.

I am a doctoral researcher at Centre for Responsible Banking and Finance. Before pursuing my research, I worked for ten years with the Bank of Botswana. I hold a Bachelor of Finance from the University of Botswana and a MSc in Financial Forecasting and Investment from the University of Glasgow. My research interests include bank business models, institutional diversity and banking in Africa.

I studied at the University of St Andrews from 2020 to 2021, where I earned an MSc in Banking and Finance with distinction. My specialisations included banking and finance, advanced corporate finance, and alternative investments, as well as applied and advanced econometrics.

Prior to that, I attended the University of Greifswald from 2015 to 2020, where I undertook advanced studies in business administration and earned a postgraduate degree, Diplom-Kaufmann with a grade of 1.3. My specialisations included quantitative finance and risk management, organisation and personnel economics, and growth, structural change, and trade.

My primary research interests focus on consumer behaviour utilising high frequency banking data. My secondary research interest includes financial markets, international finance and financial education.

I am a PhD student at the University of St Andrews, School of Management. I hold an MSc in Banking and Finance from the University of St Andrews and a BSc in Finance from the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China. Before I pursued a PhD, I worked as a financial industry analyst assistant in one of the biggest Chinese investment banks.

My research focuses on banking, stock informativeness, liquidity creation and internal capital markets. Specifically, in my first project, I studied the relationship of stock price synchronicity of price informativeness.

My PhD is funded by the China Scholarship Council-University of St Andrews Scholarships.