Ali Hassan is a Lecturer at Westminster Business School (WBS) and joined WBS in 2018 as a doctoral researcher. He holds a BSc(Hons) in Business Management with Finance, an MSc in International Banking, Finance and Risk Management and a PhD in Finance. His expertise lies in M&A, Financial Stability, Financial Intermediation, Credit and Liquidity Risk, and Systemic Risk measurement.
Ali teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students a wide range of finance, accounting, and management modules at WBS. Before joining the University of Westminster, Ali taught numerous modules on MBA, MSc and BA programmes at the University of Liverpool, Bath Spa University, and Kaplan International.
Before joining academia, Ali also gained industry exposure in enterprise risk leasing with teams in commercial finance, consultancy advisory, and information security whilst working for a joint venture between Barclays and HSBC within the financial services industry in the UK. During his time in the industry, he was part of the team overseeing the implementations of ISO27001, designing the Enterprise Risk Framework, Monetising the Risk Register, ensuring compliance with the Bank of England Note Circulation Scheme, and managing risks to the organisation while working with a consortium of banks on Banking Hubs which are now being rolled out across the UK as well as providing consultancy and advisory services to Central Banks based in the Middle East.
Education
- PhD Finance (University of Westminster)
- MSc International Banking, Finance, and Risk Management (Glasgow Caledonian University)
- BSc (Hons) Business Management with Finance (BPP University)
Professional & Research Memberships
- Member of Chartered Management Institute
- Member of the Academy of Management
- Member of the British Accounting and Finance Association
- Member European Finance Association
Ali is an active researcher and his main areas of research interest include Financial Stability in emerging markets, Financial intermediation, Bank capital and Liquidity regulations, Credit and Liquidity risks, Systemic Risk measurement and CoVaR modelling. Ali has supervised numerous students at the MSc, MA, MBA and pre-doctorate level. He has also presented his research at research conferences and is currently working on several research papers. Some of the selected research working papers and research conference appearances are listed below:
Research Papers
- Hassan, A., Benamraoui, A., Van Dallen, S., and Maliki. I. “Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, Liquidity Creation, and their implications on Systemic Risk”. (Forthcoming)
- Hassan, A., Benamraoui, A., Van Dallen, S., and Maliki. I. “Basel III: Implications of Capital and Liquidity regulations on Financial stability during economic depression”. (Forthcoming)
- Hassan, A. “Sustainable Finance and Fintech: Can FinTech’s be a catalyst to net zero ambitions of European Banks”. (Forthcoming)
Research Conference Appearances
- Hassan, A. “Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, Liquidity Creation, and their implications on Systemic Risk”. This paper was presented in Finance and Accounting Annual Research Symposium 2023, University of Westminster, London, June 2023
- Hassan, A. “Basel III: Implications of Capital and Liquidity regulations on Financial stability during economic depression”. This paper was presented at the Westminster Business School PhD Research Symposium, London, May 2019
- Centre for Finance and Financial Services
- IDEaS
