Academic staff

Dean and Deputy Dean

• Professor Geoffrey Wood - Dean of Essex Business School
• Professor Mehmet Demirbag - Professor and Deputy Dean

Subject groups

Our academic staff are organised into four subject groups and our Venture Academy:

• Accounting (Colchester Campus)
• Finance (Colchester Campus)
• Management science and entrepreneurship (Southend Campus)
• Management and Marketing (Colchester Campus)
• Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management (Colchester Campus)
• MBA and executive programmes (Colchester Campus)
• The Venture Academy

Accounting (Colchester Campus)

• Dr Magda Abou-Seada
• Dr Jackson Adams
• Dr Pawan Adhikari
• Dr Jacob Agyemang
• Dr Shaila Ahmed
• Professor Thankom Arun
• Dr Diogenis Baboukardos
• Dr Osamuyimen Egbon
• Dr Silvia Gaia
• Professor Kelum Jayasinghe
• Dr Anastasia Kopita
• Dr Azimjon Kuvandikov
• Kamran Malikov
• Professor Musa Mangena
• Professor Michael Sherer
• Dr Hang Pham
• Dr Daniela Pianezzi
• Dr Tobias Polzer
• Professor Prem Sikka
• Professor Terooven Soobaroyen
• Dr John Stittle
• Ms Rebecca Warren
• Professor Shahzad Uddin
• Zhifang Zhang

Finance (Colchester Campus)

• Dr Sam Astill
• Dr Konstantinos Baltas
• Dr Chiara Banti
• Dr Theodora Bermpei
• Dr Udichibarna Bose
• Dr Jason Cen
• Professor Jerry Coakley
• Dr Sina Erdal
• Dr Stefano Filomeni
• Professor Claudia Girardone
• Dr Mark Hallam
• Dr Lyudmyla Hvozdyk
• Dr Norvald Instefjord
• Professor Neil Kellard
• Dr Sotirios Kokas
• Professor Alexandros Kontonikas
• Professor Dimitris Korobilis
• Professor Michael Lamla
• Dr Jose Linares Zegarra
• Dr Vivekanand Nawosah
• Professor Simon Price
• Dr Anna Sarkisyan
• Dr Liya Shen
• Dr Hanwen Sun
• Professor Robert Taylor
• Dr Hardy Thomas
• Dr Athanasios Triantafyllou
• Dr Luiz Vitiello
• Dr Nikolaos Vlastakis
• Dr Senyu Wang
• Ms Chen Zheng

Management science and entrepreneurship (Southend Campus)

• Dr Dila Agrizzi
• Professor Suma Athreye
• Dr Juan Carlos F'dez De Arroyabe
• Dr Guven Demirel
• Dr Shamsul Karim
• Dr Young-Ah Kim
• Dr Caleb Kwong
• Dr Jun Li
• Dr Marianna Marra
• Dr Kholoud Mohsen
• Dr Manuela Nocker
• Professor Tazeeb Rajwani
• Dr Saadat Saeed
• Professor Vania Sena
• Dr Abhijit Sengupta
• Dr Giovanni Serafini
• Dr Misagh Tasavori
• Dr Svetlana Warhurst

Management and Marketing (Colchester Campus)

• Dr Maged Ali
• Dr Mariachiara Barzotto
• Dr Nicholas Beuret
• Dr Mario Burghausen
• Dr Simon Carmel
• Dr Martin Harris
• Professor Diane Holt
• Mr Amir Homayounfard
• Dr Erik Jacobi
• Dr Jane Khayesi
• Dr Rashne Limki
• Dr Stephen Murphy
• Professor Nigel Pye
• Dr Louise Nash
• Dr Noelia-Sarah Reynolds (née Schnurr)
• Professor Paurav Shukla
• Professor Martyna Sliwa
• Savvas Voutyras
• Dr Ceri Watkins

Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management (Colchester Campus)

• Dr Pasi Ahonen
• Dr Ed Barratt
• Dr Stefano Cirella
• Professor Philip Hancock
• Dr Thomas Hippler
• Dr Casper Hoedemaekers
• Dr Maria Hudson
• Dr Marina Michalski
• Sandra Moog
• Dr Beatrice Piccoli
• Dr Stevphen Shukaitis
• Dr Danielle Tucker
• Professor Melissa Tyler
• Dr Christina Volkmann

MBA and executive programmes

• Professor Nigel Pye

Professor Pye leads our MBA programme. As an MBA student you will also be taught by other experts from all of our subject areas above.

The Venture Academy

• Professor Jay Mitra