Rezaul Kabir

Professor Rezaul Kabir holds the Chair of Corporate Finance and Risk Management at the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is also the Head of the Department of Finance and Accounting.
The Department is engaged in teaching and research in the areas of corporate finance, investments, management accounting, financial risk management and corporate governance. It offers several courses in different educational programs of the university, with contributions to the bachelor and master programs in (international) business administration, industrial engineering & management, and health sciences. A leading role is played in the Financial Management track of the MSc in Business Administration program.
The full-time academic staff of the Department are: Dr. Henry van Beusichem (PhD, Rotterdam), Dr. Samy Essa (PhD, Amsterdam) and Dr. Xiaohong Huang (PhD, Rotterdam). The Department has currently five full-time PhD researchers: Afsheen Abrar, Saba Ahmad, Taufiq Arifin, Hanh Minh, and Maziah Nor. They are performing research in topics like micro finance, political connections, corporate social responsibility and financial risk management.
Prof. Kabir joined the University of Twente in 2009. Prior to that, he was a chair professor of finance at the University of Stirling. He started his academic career in the Netherlands at Maastricht University and University of Tilburg. He has also taught courses at universities in Antwerp, Beijing, Liege, and New York. His research covers a variety of multi-disciplinary topics including corporate finance, corporate governance, executive compensation, law and finance and corporate social responsibility. He has presented papers at many scientific conferences world-wide, and published in a large number of peer-reviewed international journals like the Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Research, European Economic Review and Journal of Multinational Financial Management. Several of his research papers are cited by scholars throughout the world, and are also publicly available at the Social Science Research Network. Prof. Kabir has extensive experience in organizing, leading and managing academic units, educational & research programs, and internationalization activities.