Professor Alfred Yawson

Alfred Yawson is a Professor in Corporate Finance and Head, Finance & Banking Discipline, University of Adelaide Business School. Prior to taking up this position he held various academic and administrative positions at the University of Adelaide, the University of New South Wales and City, University London. He has also held a visiting position at Nanyang Technological University. His primary research interests are corporate finance, particularly corporate restructuring (mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, labor & finance, and investment banking) and corporate governance. He has won competitive grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and a number of awards for research excellence. He has published in leading finance journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Banking and Finance. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Managerial Finance, ABDC, A ranked journal and editor of the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, ABDC, A* ranked journal. Professor Yawson obtained a first class honours degree in Accounting from the University of Ghana, a Master of Science in Finance with distinction and a PhD in Finance from Queen’s University Belfast in the UK. He is a Chartered Accountant with industry experience from reputable financial institutions. Professor Yawson was part of the government team that pioneered the Value Added Tax policy implementation in Ghana. He consults for both government and private organizations.