5th Chairholder (2019-2020)

Robert Faff is Professor of Finance and formerly Director of Research at the UQ Business School. He has an international reputation in empirical finance research: securing 14 Australian Research Council grants (funding exceeding $4 million); >310 refereed journal publications; career citations >12,800 (Google Scholar); and a h-index of 57 (Google Scholar). His particular passion is nurturing and developing the career trajectories of early career researchers. Professor Robert has supervised approximately 40 PhD students to successful completion and examined 50 PhD dissertations. Building on a 35-year academic career, his latest focus is “Pitching Research”. Now, its gaining great traction domestically and worldwide as exemplified by more than 13,600 SSRN downloads, more than 300 pitching talks/events at 37 Australian universities and spanning 52 different countries. In addition, Professor Robert is Editor-in-Chief of Pacific-Basin Finance Journal; formerly: Editor of Accounting and Finance (2002-2011) and Associate Editor of several journals including Abacus and Australian Journal of Management. Therefore, he is 5th Chairholder for YTI-UKM Distinguished Chair.