Dr. Hamid Uddin,

Associate Professor

Biography

Hamid Uddin received his Ph.D. degree in Accounting and Finance from the National University of Singapore and taught at the same institution. Prior to joining the University of Bradford, Hamid worked with the University of Southampton's Malaysia campus. He also taught at Taylor's University Malaysia, the University of Sharjah, UAE, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia, and the University of Dhaka. Hamid held several key roles in the past. For example, he was the founding Head of Business at the University of Southampton's Malaysia campus, Director of the Doctoral Programme at Taylor's University Malaysia. At the University of Sharjah UAE, he was a member of the college council for the College of Business Administration; he also served on several important committees such as curriculum development, study plans, and academic research. Dr. Hamid is an active researcher who supervised several Ph.D. students leading to on-time completion, implemented research projects and published widely within the broader disciplinary area covering Finance, Accounting, and Economics. His current research focuses on cybersecurity risk and bank stability, corporate governance and business conglomeration, Islamic and socially responsible Finance, and micro-financing. His earlier research covers government share ownership, corporate risk-taking, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, dividends, and capital structure. Dr. Hamid has been serving as an Associate Editor for two prominent Finance Journals: Studies in Economics and Finance and the International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management. He was the panelist speaker at the 2019 Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Conference in New Orleans USA and invited speaker at the 2018 Annual Liquidity Conference in Budapest, Hungary. He is an active member of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), British Academy of Management (BAM), and Financial Management Association (FMA). Dr. Hamid is the recipient of Texas A&M International University's best paper award in Financial Markets at the 2020 Southwestern Finance Association Conference. He is engaged with different industrial and professional entities. For example, Dr. Hamid worked for developing the first code of corporate governance in Bangladesh and served as the invited discussant at the World Bank-Dubai Economic Council conference as an academic expert.