Our faculty
Paul Fisher Former Executive Director, Bank of England, and Honorary Professor, Warwick Business School
Philippe Mueller Professor of Finance, Warwick Business School
Dr Kebin Ma Associate Professor of Finance Warwick Business School
David Skeie Professor of Finance, Warwick Business School
Dimitrios Spyridonidis Professor of Leadership and Innovation, Warwick Business School
John Thanassoulis Professor of Financial Economics, Warwick Business School
Diarmuid Murphy Former Central Bank of Ireland, IMF, ECB and European Commission, currently Director, IOB
Emma Manifold Professor of Behavioural Science Warwick Business School
Before joining WBS, Philippe was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics. He studied finance and economics at the University of Bern and at HEC Lausanne, and holds a PhD in finance and economics from Columbia University. His research interests are in macro-finance, international finance, empirical asset pricing, and financial econometrics. His current work includes studying intraday patterns in foreign exchange markets, corporate credit provision, the pricing of corporate bonds, central bank swap lines, and volatility in fixed income and currency markets. His research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Finance.
Kebin joined WBS as an Assistant Professor of Finance in 2014. His research focuses on banking, financial stability and regulation. Before joining WBS, he visited Universitat Pompeu Fabra as a Marie-Curie research fellow, and The World Bank as a short-term consultant. Kebin’s work has been presented at AFA, and conferences organised by CEPR and FDIC. Kebin holds a PhD in Finance from Tilburg University.
Paul is a British economist who worked for the Bank of England for 26 years, holding senior positions including Executive Director for Markets and Deputy Head of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). He was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, the interim Financial Policy Committee and the PRA Board. He now has a portfolio of roles, including as an Advisor to CCBS. Other current affiliations include: Chair of the London Bullion Market Association; Non-executive Director, UK Debt Management Office; Fellow, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Dimitrios’ core research interests are Leadership and Innovation. Within these, current themes include leadership and leadership development, innovation and strategic change, in the UK NHS and other healthcare systems (including China, Australia and US). Dimitrios is also involved in leadership research focusing on other professional services, primarily financial services in China.
Diarmuid spent over two decades at the Central Bank of Ireland, working across both the central banking and prudential pillars. He has also held roles in the sustainable finance unit at the European Commission, in the central banking and crisis management areas at the International Monetary Fund, and in the markets area of the European Central Bank. He also completed a fellowship at the Bank for International Settlements’ Financial Stability Institute. In January 2025, Diarmuid joined IOB, a professional education and training body, as Director.
John was educated at both Oxford and Cambridge, studying Mathematics followed by Economics, and remains an Associate Member of the Oxford- Man Institute. He is a Panel Member for the UK Competition and Markets Authority and a CEPR Research Fellow. He has also held previous posts as a Non-executive Director of OXIP: Oxford Investment Partners and was a tenured University Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford and the Heyman-Moritz Student (Fellow) of Economics at Christ Church.
David Skeie is Professor of Finance at Warwick Business School. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Finance and Mays Research Fellow at Texas A&M Mays Business School and a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Formerly, he was a trader at the hedge fund Citadel Investment Group and a senior associate at the financial risk management consulting firm Capital Market Risk Advisors. David’s research has been published in leading academic finance and economics journals.
Emma is an Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School. Emma completed her PhD in Economics at the University of Leicester in 2018. Since then, Emma was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Leicester for four years and joined Warwick Business School in 2022. Emma’s research interests focus on Behavioural and Experimental economics, using the experimental method to analyse human behaviour.
In addition, the programme also features insights and contributions from a range of industry professionals including:
■ Bryan Wynter, Former Governor at Bank of Jamaica ■ Bill Winters, CEO at Standard Chartered ■ Sam Woods, Deputy Governor for Prudential Regulation and Chief Executive Officer of the Prudential Regulation Authority ■ Mark Yallop, Chairman of the FICC Markets Standards Board Limited.
■ Hiroshi Nakaso, Former Assistant Governor at Bank of Japan (Deputy Governor equivalent) ■ Francesco Papadia, Former Director General for Market Operations at the European Central Bank ■ Michael F Silva, Compliance Senior Advisor for UBS ■ Dr Grant Spencer, Former Governor at Reserve Bank of New Zealand
■ Ruth Crowell, Chief Executive at the London Bullion Market Association ■ Ben Funnell, Former Man Group Portfolio Manager ■ Andy Haldane, Former Chief Economist and Executive Director, Monetary Analysis & Statistics, Bank of England ■ Tracey McDermott, CBE, Group Head, Conduct, Financial Crime & Compliance
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