Imperial College Business School welcomes new faculty appointments for 2024–25

In September, Professor Peter Todd, renowned expert in organisation, management and information technology, started his role as Dean of Imperial College Business School. He brings a wealth of experience and a distinguished academic career to the Business School, promising to lead it into an exciting new chapter of growth and innovation.

With a background in information technology and innovation management, Professor Todd has held several senior academic roles across Europe and North America. He previously served as Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Canada and most recently as the Director General (CEO) and Dean of HEC Paris.

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Marco Becht is Visiting Professor in the Department of Finance. He is Professor of Finance and the Goldschmidt Chair Professor of Corporate Governance and Stewardship at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management at Université libre de Bruxelles, where he teaches master's courses on corporate governance, corporate restructuring and responsible capitalism. Marco is Founder Member, Fellow and the Executive Director of ECGI, the international research network. 

His research focuses on shareholder activism, engagement, divestment and corporate control, with particular emphasis on institutions, business practice, history and law.

Veronica De Falco has joined the Department of Finance as Assistant Professor of Finance. She received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, holds an MSc in Economics and Finance and a BA in Economics from the University of Naples Federico II.

Her research interests are in finance and macroeconomics, with a focus on monetary policy, asset pricing and sovereign debt.

Ozge Demirci is Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School and she earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick.

Ozge’s research focuses on the economics of digitisation, artificial intelligence technologies (AI) and digital platforms. She is particularly interested in how emerging digital technologies, such as Generative AI, influence the behaviour of consumers and firms.

Marco Di Maggio is a Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance. He has joined the Business School from Harvard Business School where he was Ogunlesi Family Professor of Business Administration.

Marco’s current research focuses on financial intermediation, in particular how new technologies, such as Blockchain and AI, have disrupted financial markets and the effects of this on companies and individuals.

Stephen Hansen is Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics & Public Policy. He is Professor of Economics at University College London and was previously Associate Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School. 

His research focuses on organisational economics and monetary policy. Increasingly, he draws on unstructured data sources and machine learning methods to address questions in these areas.

Ziang Li is Assistant Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance. His research interests include financial intermediation, asset pricing, macro-finance and behavioural economics. 

He received a PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 2024. He also holds an MA in Economics from Princeton University, as well as a BA in Economics and BSc in Mathematics from Renmin University of China.

Chengwei Liu is Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioural Science in the Department of Management & Entrepreneurship. Originally from Taiwan, he earned his PhD from Cambridge and was recognised as one of Poets&Quants' "Top 40 Under 40" Business School professors. He is the author of the award-winning book Luck: A Key Idea for Business and Society and serves as Senior Editor at Organization Science.

Anita Patel has joined Imperial as the Provost’s Visiting Professor of Health Economics as part of a joint appointment between the Business School’s Department of Economics & Public Policy and Imperial’s School of Public Health.

Anita is an applied health economist with 30 years of experience of designing, directing and delivering health economics research in the academic and consulting sectors. In 2015, she joined Queen Mary University of London as their first Professor of Health Economics to develop health economics capacity at the medical school, and remains an Honorary Professor of Health Economics there.

Karmini Sharma has joined the Department of Economics & Public Policy as Assistant Professor. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford King Centre on Global Development and she received her PhD from University of Warwick. 

She is a development economist whose research focuses on sexual harassment, gender segregation and female labour force participation in low and middle-income countries.

Ali Uppal has joined the Business School as Assistant Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance. He is a macroeconomist with research interests in monetary economics as well as banking and finance. He received his undergraduate degree from the London School of Economics, his master’s degree from Yale University, and his PhD from the University of California San Diego.

His recent work includes exploring the interaction between monetary policy and financial stability, both theoretically and empirically.