Dr Mahdi Mousavi

Biography

Mahdi Mousavi (PhD, MSc, MA and BA) is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Bradford School of Management. He achieved a PhD in finance from the University of Edinburgh Business School, UK, an MSc in Finance from Essex Business School, UK, and a BA and MA in Financial Management from Iran. Mahdi received a PhD scholarship from the College of Humanities and Social Science of the University of Edinburgh, and an abroad PhD scholarship from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran. 

His research interest consists of a variety of topics including the design and performance evaluation of bankruptcy prediction models, credit scoring, corporate finance, and international business. His work has been published in several peer-reviewed international journals, such as Journal of International Management, Expert Systems with Applications, Annals of Operation Research, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Developing Areas, and Journal of Economics, Business and Management. His recent research outcome about the multi-criteria ranking of bankruptcy prediction models is published as a chapter of the book entitled "Advances in DEA Theory and Applications with Extensions to Forecasting Models" by Wiley.

Mahdi teaches a number of executive, postgraduate and undergraduate modules. He developed/leads the MSc FinTech programme at the University of Bradford. Prior to this post, Mahdi was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the American University of Kean in China and a Lecturer of Finance at the University of Economic Science in Iran.  

He has the industry experience and before entering the academic world, worked as a capital market analyst for a number of years. As a result, Mahdi is committed to linking his teaching and research to practice. 

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