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Professor Tapan Sarker

Professor Tapan Sarker
Name Tapan Sarker
Position Professor (Finance)
Section School of Business
Office A306
Location Springfield Campus
Phone +61 7 3470 4406
Extension 4406
Email
Qualifications BSc Chittagong , MABusComm Keio , PhD ANU
Languages Bengali (accredited translator)
Hindi (non accredited translator)
Japanese (non accredited translator)
Homepage https://staffprofile.usq.edu.au/Profile/Tapan-Sarker
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Biography

Tapan has more than 20 years of teaching and training, research, administrative and consulting experience. Within the industry, he has been a consultant for leading MNCs such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd India. His interdisciplinary research expertise is in the areas of sustainable and green finance, public financial management, financing for the SDGs, business responses to climate change, and circular economy. His research has been published in leading journals including Finance Research Letters, International Review of Economics & Finance, Australian Tax Forum, Global Finance Journal, Economic Modelling, among others. His research has been cited by various government and international organisations including the Australian Senate, NSW parliamentary committee, the Asian Development Bank, G20, and the UN ESCAP. His most recent co-edited book “Pathways to a Sustainable Economy: Bridging the gap between COP21commitments and 2030 targets of emission control”, Springer (2018) has been ranked among the top used publications on SpringerLink that concern one or more SDGs. He has been a Chief Investigator of a range of interdisciplinary projects supported by competitive/external funding (Cat 1 and Cat 2) over $2.5 million (over $1m as Principal Investigator) through the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF), the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the Australian Council for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank. Tapan holds a Ph.D. in Commerce from the Australian National University, Master of Arts in Business and Commerce from Keio University, Japan, and Bachelor of Science with Hons (First Class) from Chittagong University, Bangladesh.

Research Career


  • Investment And Risk Management ( 350208 )
  • Financial Institutions (incl. Banking) ( 350204 )
  • Accounting ( 350100 )
  • Public Economics - Taxation And Revenue ( 380115 )
  • Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation ( 410100 )
  • Sustainability Accounting And Reporting ( 350107 )
  • Banking ( 350200 )
  • Taxation Accounting ( 350108 )
  • Finance ( 350202 )
  • Human Impacts Of Climate Change And Human Adaptation ( 410103 )
  • Applied Economics ( 380100 )
  • Banking ( 350299 )
  • Environment And Climate Finance ( 350201 )
  • Financial Economics ( 380107 )
  • International Finance ( 350207 )
  • International Economics ( 380110 )
  • Environment And Resource Economics ( 380105 )
  • Not-For-Profit Finance And Risk ( 350209 )
  • Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation not elsewhere classified ( 410199 )
  • Public Economics - Publicly Provided Goods ( 380114 )

Sustainable and green finance, public financial management, financing for the SDGs, business responses to climate change, and circular economy


  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  • Rural Economies Centre of Excellence (RECE)
  • Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Systems (CSAS)
  • Centre for Applied Climate Sciences (CACS)

Teaching


Discipline Lead (Finance)

Supervision


  • Investment And Risk Management ( 350208 )
  • Financial Institutions (incl. Banking) ( 350204 )
  • Accounting ( 350100 )
  • Public Economics - Taxation And Revenue ( 380115 )
  • Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation ( 410100 )
  • Sustainability Accounting And Reporting ( 350107 )
  • Banking ( 350200 )
  • Taxation Accounting ( 350108 )
  • Finance ( 350202 )
  • Human Impacts Of Climate Change And Human Adaptation ( 410103 )
  • Applied Economics ( 380100 )
  • Banking ( 350299 )
  • Environment And Climate Finance ( 350201 )
  • Financial Economics ( 380107 )
  • International Finance ( 350207 )
  • International Economics ( 380110 )
  • Environment And Resource Economics ( 380105 )
  • Not-For-Profit Finance And Risk ( 350209 )
  • Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation not elsewhere classified ( 410199 )
  • Public Economics - Publicly Provided Goods ( 380114 )