About us
The Centre of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) brings together a broad range of disciplines - such as economics, accounting, finance, business and management studies sociology, politics and history – into an innovative and interdisciplinary research collaboration which aims to be relevant and impactful and that is international in scope. The institute comprises two research centres – CGRA (Centre for Governance, Risk and Accountability) and GPERC (Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre) - with around 40 members who are active in both research and teaching research-informed courses. The Centre embraces both theoretical and methodological pluralism, and combines both positivistic and critical approaches.
Our focus is on
- Economic and social agents (firms, institutions, government and individuals) in the institutional setting.
- Economic and corporate responsibility and governance (including political and social responsibility and governance) of economic agents.
- Accountability of state, institutions and firms (in an economic setting).
- Risk management, regulation and supervision of public and corporate economic agents.
We aim to
- Promote development, sustainability, and fairness
- Encourage accountability (including economic and corporate governance, and risk management), sustainability, fairness, and performance.
- Help develop optimal regulation, supervision and intervention (regarding the roles of market vs. state, competition vs. regulation, risks and their impact on different groups).
Our research areas include
- Inequalities (class, gender, race, poverty, income, wealth and international inequality): causes and consequences
- Unemployment, labour market institutions, labour rights
- Innovation, technological change and productivity
- Internationalization of production, capital and labour mobility, global imbalances
- Green economy, ecological sustainability, climate change, energy crisis
- Public investment and fiscal policy; Evidence based public policy and meta-analysis
- Development (global, regional and local) and sustainability
- Economics of education
- Behavioural economics and finance
- Governance, regulation, institutions, state and society
- Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility; Accounting & Business Ethics;
- Critical Accounting; International Accounting Standards
- Performance Management and Control;
- Corporate Finance; Finance, economy and society; SMEs and finance
- Financial Risk Management; Banking Regulation and Supervision
- Microfinance
Events
Directors
Professor Özlem Onaran
Associate Head of the School of Accounting, Finance & Economics - Research & Knowledge Exchange, Co-director of PEGFA
Professor Alex Stojanovic
Head of School Accounting, Finance & Economics ; Director of Centre for Governance, Risk and Accountability; Co-Director of Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability
Deputy Directors
Experts
Dr Zunaira Aman
Lecturer in MBA International Business & Economics
Dr Mary-Paz Arrieta-Paredes
Senior Lecturer in International Business
Dr Trung Bao Hoang
Lecturer in Financial Management
Dr Nadia Benbouzid
Senior Lecturer in Finance
Adotey Bing-Pappoe
Senior Lecturer
Dr Alberto Botta
Associate Professor of Economics
Dr Karen Brickman
Associate Head of the School of Accounting, Finance & Economics - Student Success
Dr Lesley Catchpowle
Senior Lecturer in Social and Critical Accounting and Organisational Studies
Dr Neslihan Cetinkaya
Lecturer in Financial Accounting
Dr Zhizhen Chen
Senior Lecturer
Dr Ian Clarke
Senior Lecturer Innovation and Enterprise
Dr Anne-Marie Coles
Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management
Dr Olufemi Sallyanne Decker
Associate Professor
Dr Uros Delevic
Lecturer
Helen Evans
Senior Lecturer in Finance
Dr Xiaowen Gao
Associate Professor in Accounting and Finance
Mahkameh Ghanei
Principal Lecturer
Dr Francesco Guidi
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Dr Alexander Guschanski
Lecturer in Economics
Dr Robert Calvert Jump
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods
Dr Nikolaidi Maria
Associate Professor in Economics
Professor Ana Marr
Professor of International Development Economics
Dr Tesfa Mehari
Lead Tutor, Principal Lecturer
Dr Joanna Molyn-Blanchfield
Senior Lecturer
Dr Patricia Ntozi-Obwale
Senior Lecturer
Dr Cem Oyvat
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Dr Athina Piterou
Lecturer in sustainability
Jeff Powell
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Dr Lianfeng Quan
Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
Dr Dawn Reilly
Associate Professor of Accounting, Deputy Head of School of Accounting, Finance and Economics
Dr Antonella Russo
Associate Professor
Dr Navjot Sangwan
Lecturer in Economics
Dr Sohan Sarwar
Senior Lecturer in Finance
Dr Rami Shamseen
Programme Leader, BA Marketing Suite, BA Public Relation & Communications and Lecturer in Finance and Marketing
Dr Edna Solomon
Senior Lecturer in International Business Economics, Programme Leader, BSc Hons Economics & Economics with Banking
Dr Guoxiang Song
Senior Lecturer
Dr Luca Tasciotti
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Dr Ben Tippet
Lecturer in Economics
Kevin Williams
Lecturer in Financial and Management Accounting
Ms Lili Yan
Lecturer
Yuliya Yurchenko
Senior Lecturer in Political Economy