Jonathan Batten Email & Phone Number

Jonathan A. Batten is Professor of Finance at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) Melbourne, Australia. Prior to working at RMIT University, he held the CIMB-UUM Chair in Banking and Finance at University Utara Malaysia, was Professor in finance at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and Seoul National University, Korea. He previously held Honorary Professorships at the East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China and The University of Sydney, Australia. He is also a coeditor of Finance Research Letters, and senior editor of Emerging Markets Review and the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money (JIFMIM).Prior to working in academia, Jonathan held senior bank treasury and risk management consulting positions with several institutions including Bank of Tokyo, Credit Lyonnais, IBM Consulting and Reuters Ltd. Jonathan’s published research crosses several disciplines: firstly, in the business area on insider trading and market manipulation, bond pricing and corporate foreign exchange risk management; secondly, in energy and applied mathematics investigating complexity in financial time series and market integration; and thirdly, in economic policy on financial market development and the societal impacts of foreign direct investment. His current research is based on assessing the impact on banking and financial markets of the expected worldwide shift to renewable energy and adjusting to the effects of climate change.

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  The University Of Sydney

  Financial Economics