Eunyoung Oh (오은영)

I am an Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at KMU International Business School, Kookmin University in South Korea, specialising in (i) fintech, (ii) digital currency,  and (iii) monetary policy. 

Additionally, I serve as a visiting professor (visiting fellow) at both the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland and the University of Portsmouth in the UK. As a BIS visiting fellow, I have been awarded the opportunity to collaborate with the Monetary and Economic Department, conducting joint research during short-term residencies at their headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.

Before this role, over the last 10 years from 2014 to 2024, I served as an Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Portsmouth in the UK. I have a PhD in Economics from the University of Durham and a MLitt in Finance from the University of St Andrews. During my PhD, I investigated the role of money in monetary policy and how money supply and seigniorage impact on output growth using a DSGE model and Hansen’s panel threshold (Non-linear) methodology.

I was a local chair of the 54th Annual Conference of the Money, Macro and Finance Society, 6-8 September 2023. The MMF Society traces its roots back to Harry Johnson and the Money Study Group that was formed in 1969 at the LSE. 

I was selected to contribute to a joint policy brief titled “The Global South Growing out of Poverty, Inequality, and Exclusiveness - What the G7 Needs to Do” for the  G7 (Group of Seven) Summit in Japan in 2023. I wrote about financial empowerment and innovative access to finance for Think7 (T7), the G7 official think tank engagement group. 

I was a visiting fellow at Asian Development Bank and the University of Tokyo in 2019. I worked on fintech and financial inclusion in developing countries. The objective of the research project was to analyse fintech in developing countries and evaluate the extent to which they can help to improve financial inclusion.

I was appointed as the Departmental Director for PhD in Economics and Finance in 2017 and served a role until January 2023. I had general responsibility for research degrees students and supervisors such as recruitment and admissions of PGRS within departments including monitoring enquiries, passing enquiries and applications to supervisors.

In 2014, I joined the VOLCROWE (Volunteer and Crowdsourcing Economics) research project. This was a £750,000 three-year EPSRC funded project which involved collaboration between the University of Portsmouth, University of Oxford, University of Manchester and University of Leeds.