Ghana Alumni Masterclass and Information Session | facilitated by Stellenbosch Business School Alumni Association Ghana Chapter
Lessons from the Global Currency Crises
Join Prof Michael Graham and Dr Emmanuel Oduro- Afriyie for an insightful Alumni Masterclass, as they explores Lessons from The Global Currency Crises. We also welcome you to join the Stellenbosch Business School Programme Information Session, hosted immediately after our Alumni Masterclass. We look forward to your presence.
SPEAKERS
Prof Michael Graham
Professor: Stellenbosch Business School
Michael Graham, PhD, is an astute academic and consultant. He is currently a Professor at the Stellenbosch Business School, Stellenbosch University, and the Vice Dean, Research, Postgraduate Affairs and Internationalization of the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences. He is also a member of the University Senate, the highest decision-making body of the university. Before then, he was an Associate Professor at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, and head of the Master of Banking and Finance programme.
He has significant international exposure and has taught at several international universities including Deakin University, Australia, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Australia, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, Finland, and Kajaani University of Applied Sciences. In addition, he has been an external examiner at several universities including the University of Mauritius, Mauritius, the University of Ghana, Ghana, the University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe, and the University of West Indies, West Indies.
Professor Graham is a well cited scholar whose research interests encompass capital flows, corporate finance, structured finance, and financial markets. His extensive research has been published in international journals including the Journal of Banking and Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, European Journal of Finance, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, and Quantitative Finance. In addition, he is a regular reviewer for international ranked journals. Also, he is a regular feature on the international conference circuit and has presented his research papers in over a score international conferences.
Professor Graham has consulted widely in various fields. He has also worked with reputable organizations including the United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). He holds a BSc and MSc in Economics from the University of Tampere, Finland, and a PhD in Finance from the University of Vaasa, Finland.
Dr Emmanuel Oduro-Afriyie
Corporate & Investment Banking: Absa Bank Ghana Limited; PhD Development Finance alum: Stellenbosch Business School
Dr Emmanuel Oduro-Afriyie graduated from Stellenbosch University in 2018, having worked on a doctoral thesis titled ‘’Essays on Inflation Persistence and Threshold Differentials in Ghana.’’ His research focused on monetary policy and the estimation of aggregate and sectoral threshold inflation rates, inflation inertia, expected durations and switching probabilities of inflationary regimes in African economies. Emmanuel has presented several of his academic papers at the Centre for the study of African Economies (CSAE) at University of Oxford, the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and the University of Cape Town in South Africa as well as at numerous international conferences. He continues to contribute to development finance scholarship with emphasis on macroeconomic research. He has 1 book chapter and 3 papers currently under review.
Dr Oduro-Afriyie is also a Moody's Certified Credit Analyst and with years of Corporate and Investment banking experience across West and South Africa, he has covered the two African regions both in study and practice. He is currently Corporate Credit Manager at Absa Bank Ghana (member of Absa Group) where he manages a credit portfolio of firms with a combined annual turnover in excess of US$1 Billion.