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Professor Tapan Sarker

Name Tapan Sarker
Pronoun He/Him/His
Position Professor (Finance)
Section School of Business, Law, Humanities and Pathways
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
The views expressed on staff homepages may not reflect the views of the University.

Biography

Tapan Sarker (h = 38) is a Professor of Finance at University of Southern Queensland. He is ranked by ScholarGPS as a top 5% academic in the world for overall contribution and publication quality in sustainable development. He writes about issues related to sustainability, macro-fiscal policy, climate finance, geopolitics, and emerging markets. He receives funding from the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Council for International Agricultural Research, National Climate Change Research Facility, Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, Oxfam among others.

Tapan has more than 25 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 cited by various government and international organisations including the Australian Senate, NSW parliamentary committee, the Asian Development Bank, G20, and the UN ESCAP. His 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 $3.5 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. specializing in behavioral and sustainable finance from the Australian National University and an MA in Business and Commerce from Keio University, Japan via the Joint Japan / World Bank Scholarship Program. He has a strong media presence and talks on trade, energy, geopolitics, climate change and growth. He has provided commentary and interviews on investment, trade and global political economy for leading media outlets, including ABC Science, Sky News, 9 News, 7 News, SBS, Sydney Morning Herald, ABC Brisbane, Brisbane Times, ABC Drum, and The Conversation.

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


Academy of Management
Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand


Financial Services Institute of Australasia


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

Teaching


FIN6201 Financial Decision Making in Organisations
FIN6101 - FinTech Innovation
MBA8006 - Balancing Drivers of Business Performance


25 Years


Curriculum 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 )