Professor Ser-Huang Poon (BAcc, MA, PhD)

Contact information Professor of Finance (MBS) Visiting Professor (NUS Singapore, UTS Sydney) Tel: 44 (0) 161 3066404/2750429 Fax: 44 (0) 161 275 4023 Crawford House, Room M17 Marie Curie FP7 ITN on Risk Management and Risk Reporting, research fellow positions now open.

Ser-Huang Poon graduated from the National University of Singapore with a degree in Accountancy, and obtained her masters degree in Accounting and Finance and PhD degree in Finance from Lancaster University. Before joining Manchester Business School, Dr. Poon held visiting appointments at the University of California in San Diego, University of Saskatchewan, Nangyang Business School, and the University of Rotterdam, and permanent positions at Lancaster University Management School and Strathclyde Business School. She is a Board Member of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG).

In 2002, she set up the first ESRC funded UK wide Advanced Doctoral Training Programme in Finance and has contributed to the training programme since its inception. In 2004, she set up two MSc degree programmes, MSc Quantitative Finance and Financial Engineering, and MSc Mathematical Finance, at Manchester Business School in collaboration with the School of Mathematics. In 2008, she successfully led a consortia of 19 university and industry partners on an (approx) 3.5 million euro bid for research training in the theme of Risk Management and Risk Reporting. She is currently the head of postgraduate research at Manchester Accounting and Finance Group.

Ser-Huang Poon is internationally renowned for her volatility research. More recently, her research and teaching interests have extended to theoretical and empirical models for derivative pricing in incomplete markets and macro-finance studies. She is a member of several finance associations in Europe and in the U.S. She has written three books and published papers in the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Derivatives, Journal of Futures Markets and Journal of European Financial Management.