My primary fields of expertise focus on corporate finance, financial market microstructures, market-based accounting research, and economics.

I earned my Master's degree from the Paul Nitze Graduate School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Later, I completed my Doctorate in Finance at Brunel University.

Throughout my academic journey, I was granted various esteemed scholarships from commercial and governmental organizations.

Before joining Middlesex University, I served in positions in both the academic and government sectors.

Brunel University of London /UK

2010

PhD, Finance.

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Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) / USA

1999

MIPP, International Public Policy (with Concentration in International Economics)

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Boston University / USA

1998

English Course and Certification. Presessional for my Master Degree at John Hopkins.

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Vietnam National University of Hanoi / Vietnam

1993

BSc. Economics, International Economics.

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Other Training: Institute of Public Administration and Management / Singapore

2001

1-month intensive training course on Public Administration. Institute of Public Administration and Management, Singapore. 5/2 to 2/3 2001.

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Other Training

Various Dates

• 3 weeks intensive training course on Human Rights Research 2-14/5/1997. University of Sydney, Centre for Asian and Pacific Law.
• 1-week intensive training course on Public and International Law – University of Sydney, Faculty of Law, 6-11/11/1995.
• 1 month training Financial Management in Public Sector organized by IIAP France, in Hanoi.

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The European Finance Association

The British Accounting and Finance Association

The British Higher Education Academy

The American Finance Association

Western Finance Association

Southern and South Western Finance Association

• Wiley Top Downloaded Article Award: to the most downloaded article during its first 12 months of publication among work published in an issue between 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2022. “Insider trading, gender diversity within the board room, CEO pay gap, and stock price crash risk”
• Emerald Literati “2019 Highly commended Award” for the paper “The impact of Dividend Announcements on share price and trading volume: Empirical evidence from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Journal of Economic Studies 45 (2). pp. 210-230. with my PhD student Felimban, Raza and my colleague Floros, Christos.
• American FORD FOUNDATION Fully Funded Scholarship (Master Degree study)
• Japanese Government MONBUSHO Fully Funded Scholarship (Master Degree study -waived)
• Vietnam MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING scholarships (Doctoral and undergraduate study programmes)

• International Risk Management, MSc Investment and Finance
  • Currently teaching & module leader - 3 years
• Applied econometrics
  • Currently teaching - years, MSc Banking and Finance, MSc Investment and Finance
• Financial Data Analysis (using STATA and Python), MSc. Financial Management
  • Currently teaching & module leader - 5 years
• Global issues in Financial Services, Year 3 Top-up, BSc Financial Services
  • Currently teaching & module leader – 5 years
• Investment Valuation, MSc Investment Management
  • Design for Dubai Campus only, & currently module leader
• Corporate Finance, MSc Financial Management
  • Previously taught & module leader – 10 years
• Oil and Gas Finance and Risk Management, MBA Oil and Gas Finance online Programme
  • Previously taught & module leader – 3 years
• Business Finance, Year 3 Top-up, BSc Financial Services, BA International Business Administration
  • Previously taught, module leader – 7 years
• Financial Theory (seminar leader), Year 3 BA. Accounting and Finance
  • Previously taught – 1 year
• Introduction to Econometric Modeling (lab), Year 2 Undergraduate level
  • Previously taught at Brunel University, 1 year
• Financial Management, Year 3 Undergraduate level
  • Previously taught at Box Hill Institute (Australia), Vietnam Campus – 5 years
• Budgeting, Undergraduate, Year 3 Undergraduate level
  • Previously taught at Box Hill Institute (Australia), Vietnam Campus – 5 years
• Economics for Business, Year 3 Undergraduate level
  • Previously taught at Box Hill Institute (Australia), Vietnam Campus – 5 years

A variety of teaching and learning methods are used within taught modules such as: Didactic lecture, seminar, real company studies, role play, student-directed research activities, group presentation and discussion. Assessment methods used: Unseen exam, online test, case study, real company study analysis, peer-assessment.

Main areas of research interests: Corporate finance, financial market microstructures, market-based accounting research & economics. reviewer International Business Review International Journal of Finance and Economics Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money Review of Finance Small Business Economics Journal of Economic Studies Pacific Accounting Review In addition, I participated in Reviewer Panel of the following market leading Finance textbooks: Upcoming 6th Edition, Global Edition of Corporate Finance by Jonathan Berk & Peter DeMarzo

Examiner Type	Type	Candidate/Date	Title of Thesis
INTERNAL	PhD transfer viva	Thomas Pitsaris, MPhil. 26-10-2011.	Occupational Pension Funds’ Activism, Firms’ Profitability and Board Structure. The UK Case.
INTERNAL	PhD transfer viva	Lalajike Vishwanath Sadanand. 2-11-2016.	Region-wise spillovers from FDI in India.
INTERNAL	PhD registration	Lalajike Vishwanath Sadanand,13-4-2016.	Region-wise spillovers from FDI in India.
INTERNAL	PhD registration	Syed Ehsan Mahmud. 3-6-2014.	Corporate derivative use and cost of equity: A study on the UK and German non-financial firms.
INTERNAL	PhD registration	Wadhaah Almubarak, 24-6-2014.	The Status of the Monitoring Mechanism in Saudi Arabia: a Focus on the Banking Sector.
EXTERNAL EXAMINER			I am currently sitting on the PhD examiner board of COMSATS University Islamabad, Park Road, Tarlai Kalan, Islamabad – Pakistan
INTERNAL EXAMINER	PhD Review Stage 2	Qiong Yuan, 24-10-2023	The impact of artificial intelligence focus on firm performance: The role of R&D, marketing expenditure and top manager education level
INTERNAL EXAMINER	PhD Registration	Alberto Pallotta, 31-5-2024	Development of a Comprehensive R Library for Backtesting Trading Strategies: Bridging Theory and Practice in Quantitative Finance

Name		Date	Title of Thesis
Viet Phuong Le	Now Lecturer in Finance at Coventry University	2021	Interrelationship between insider trading and managerial attributes
Muhammad Sadiq Shahid	Now Associate Professor at Bahauddin Zakariya University	2016	Economic factors and performance of stock return: An empirical investigation of stock market of Pakistan
Raza Felimban (partial)		2020	Essays on Corporate Dividend Policy using data from Gulf Corporation Council countries.

Name		Date	Title of Thesis
Ami Dhakan	NowLecturer in Accounting and Finance at University of West England	2018-present	Equity risk and Gender pay gap with the board room.
Minh Nhat Linh Nguyen		2022-2025	Green Bond Issuance

Internal Grant on Gender pay disparity within the Boardroom and Mergers and Acquisitions Activities

Le, Viet, Ann-Ngoc Nguyen, Andros Gregoriou, and William Forbes. 2024. "Insider Trading and CEO Pay-Gap Induced Turnover" Journal of Risk and Financial Management 17, no. 11: 483.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm17110483

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Nguyen, Ann-Ngoc and Le, Viet and Kernohan, David and Gregoriou, Andros (2024). Insider Trading before Earnings News: The Role of Executive Pay Disparity. Journal of Risk and Financial Management. Vol 17, 10, 1-36.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm17100453

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Nguyen, Ann-Ngoc and Le, Viet and Kernohan, David and Gregoriou, Andros (2023). Market Reactions to Insider Trading Prior to Corporate Earnings Disclosure. Does Executive Pay Disparity Play Any Role?
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4445167 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4445167 (under review at FMII 7/2023 [ABS3*])

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Le, Viet, Nguyen, Ann-Ngoc and Fobres, William and Gregoriou, Andros (2023). Insider Trading, Executive Pay Disparity and CEO Turnover.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4445168 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4445168 (under review at JBF 7/2023 [ABS3*])

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Viet, Le; Nguyen, Ann-Ngoc; and Gregoriou, Andros (2022) Insider trading, gender diversity within the board room, CEO pay gap, and stock price crash risk. International Journal of Finance & Economics, pp 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2731 ) Published Online: 2022-11-24)

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Nguyen, Ann-Ngoc and Kernohan, David and Nguyen, Tung (2022) Minority versus majority: the choice of acquisition in Asia-Pacific countries. International Journal of Finance and Economics, pp 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2726 (Published online first on 1/11/2022)

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Felimban, R. and Floros. C, and Nguyen, AN (2018). The impact of Dividend Announcements on share price and trading volume: Empirical evidence from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Journal of Economic Studies 45 (2). pp. 210-230. https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-03-2017-0069 .

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Nguyen, AN (2018), Shahid M. and Kernohan, D. Investor Confidence and Mutual Fund Performance - insights from emerging markets in India and Pakistan. Journal of Economic Studies, 45 (6). pp. 1288-1310. https://doi.org/10.1108/jes-07-2017-0175 .

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Gregoriou, A. & Nguyen, N. (2010), Stock Liquidity and Investment Opportunities:  New Evidence from FTSE 100 Index Deletions. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money. Volume, July 2010, Pages 267-274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2010.03.005

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BAFA Corporate Finance and Assets Pricing SIG Conference: Green bond and corporate investment efficiency - 6/9/2024.

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Middlesex Business School’s Brown Bag Seminar series: Does governance patronage exist? The impact of public policy engagement on firms’ carbon emission - 6/6/2024.

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BAFA quantitative paper development and writing workshop. Minority versus majority: the choice of Acquisitions in Asia Pacific countries. 11/5/2018.

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Nguyen, N. & Skerratt, L. (2010) “Stock Liquidities and Post Earnings Announcement Drift: A comparison analysis between Common Law and Code Law Accounting Systems”. Paper presented at Bournemouth Business School external seminar on 24 November 2010.

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Nguyen, N. & Gregoriou, A. & Skerratt, L. (2008). “Post Earnings Announcements Drift and the Bid Ask Spread in the US Equity markets” Paper presented at Brunel University International Conference on 30 May 2008.

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Nguyen, N. & Gregoriou, A. & Skerratt, L (2008) “Post earnings announcements drift and the Bid Ask Spread in the UK and French Equity markets” Paper presented at Brunel University, Department of Economics and Finance Seminar on 27 February 2008

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