As part of the AFL Seminar Series we welcome Professor Ali Ataullah from The Open University who will be presenting Social Capital and Carcinogenic Waste Releases.

After his MBA in Banking and Finance, Ali Ataullah obtained MSc in Corporate and International Finance from Durham University. He briefly worked in a bank as a relationship manager (evaluating creditworthiness of firms). He then obtained his PhD from Durham University, focusing on the link between economic growth and the efficiency/productivity of banks. Ali started his academic career as a research associate in 2004 in Loughborough University. Prior to joining the Open University as a Professor in Finance in August 2017, he was a reader in corporate finance and the director of postgraduate research programme in the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University.