Professor Chandra Thapa
Accounting and Finance
Personal statement
I joined 欧美高清 Business School in 2012 as a Lecturer in Finance. Before joining the department I held two years of lectureship position at University of Stirling. Currently I assume the position Chair (Professor) in Finance. My area of research relates to environmental, social and governance corporate financial risks. My research outputs have featured in international journals like British Journal of Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money and more. My teachings are primarily focused on Corporate Finance, International Financial Management, and Derivatives & Treasury Management.
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 28/2/2020
Qualifications
- PhD, Cranfield School of Management
- MRes, Cranfield School of Management
- MBA (International Banking and Finance, with Distinction), Birmingham Business School
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Publications
- , , Shrestha Chaman, Bhattarai Narayan Prasad
- Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (2025)
- , , , Neupane Suman, Shrestha Chaman
- Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money Vol 91 (2024)
- Neupane Suman, , Vithanage Kulunu
- Journal of Banking and Finance Vol 149 (2023)
- , Farag Hisham, , Neupane Suman,
- (2022)
- Farag Hisham, , , Neupane Suman,
- (2022)
- , Rao Sandeep, Roy Partha P,
- Journal of Corporate Finance Vol 76 (2022)
Teaching
Interests and Experience (2009 鈥� 2025, undergraduate and postgraduate, including executive MBA):
- Finance and Financial Management
- Advanced Corporate Finance and Topics in Corporate Finance
- Quasi-natural Experiments in Finance Research
- Quantitative Methods for Finance
- International Financial Management听听听听听听
- Treasury Management and International Finance
- Derivatives and Treasury Management
- International Financial Economics
- Corporate Finance听
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Institutions (countries) Taught:
- University of 欧美高清, UK
- YMCA and 欧美高清 EMBA, Singapore
- CDC Management Development Centre and 欧美高清 EMBA, Malaysia
- Institution of Banking and Finance and 欧美高清 EMBA, Oman
- 欧美高清 EMBA Dubai
- University of Stirling, UK
- Skema Business School, France
- EM Strasbourg Business School, France
- Cranfield University, UK
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Teaching Excellence Award, Short Listing and Nominations:
Awarded
1. University of 欧美高清 2022 Teaching Excellence Award 鈥� Best in Faculty.
One of the nominees stated:
Chandra helped students to work better and is a challenging, helpful, motivating, passionate,e and supportive teacher who makes a 3-hour lecture fun.
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2. Stirling University 2011 RATE (Recognising Achievement in Teaching Excellence) Award.
One of the nominees stated:
鈥淲hen Chandra teaches, he excites the class and shows enthusiasm in what he is teaching. Something I have never experienced with other lecturers. His overall knowledge of finance is vast, and he always offers himself for any kind of support to the students and makes himself available. As well as these reasons, he is friendly and chats to students before and after lectures, asking how they like the course and how they are finding the workload. Lecture slides and examples are always detailed but concise.鈥�
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Short listed
2016 Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) 鈥� University of 欧美高清: Best in Faculty - Business
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Nomitated
RATE 2011 (Stirling University): Most Inspiring Tutor
RATE 2012 (Stirling University): Excellence in Teaching in the School of Management
RATE 2012 (Stirling University): 听Most Inspiring Tutor
TEA 听 2015 (University of 欧美高清: Most Enthusiastic Teacher
TEA 2016 (University of 欧美高清): Most Enthusiastic Teacher
TEA 2017 University of 欧美高清): Most Supporting Teacher
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External Examiner:
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Abertay University
- University of Sunderland
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Professional Activities
- Invited speaker
- 13/10/2021
- Visiting researcher
- 4/10/2021
- Organiser
- 12/9/2021
- Examiner
- 2021
- Examiner
- 2020
- Examiner
- 2020
Projects
- Thapa, Chandra (Principal Investigator) Marshall, Andrew (Co-investigator) Risal, Hari Gopal (Post Grad Student)
- JARA 2533 拢99,007
- 01-Jan-2021 - 02-Jan-2025
- Thapa, Chandra (Principal Investigator)
- JARA Applicant: Hari Risal (2021 鈥� 2024), Topic: Green Finance
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2024
- Thapa, Chandra (Principal Investigator)
- JARA PhD funding [15% of tuition fee and maintenance (拢14,851)] of an outstanding student from Kathmandu University, Nepal. Student was ranked 1st in JARA application.
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
- Thapa, Chandra (Principal Investigator)
- SEA Application: Pratik Gupta (2021 鈥� 2024), Topic: Corporate Social Responsibility
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
- Thapa, Chandra (Principal Investigator)
- Kathmandu University 拢14851
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
- Thapa, Chandra (Principal Investigator)
- REA Application: Partha Prateem Roy (2018-2021), Topic: ESG
- 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2021
Contact
Professor
Chandra
Thapa
Accounting and Finance
Email: chandra.thapa@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3891