Bio

Professor Andrew Urquhart is Professor of Finance and Financial Technology and Head of the ICMA Centre at Henley Business School, University of Reading. 

Andrew joined the ICMA Centre in 2018 from the University of Southampton where he was Associate Professor of Finance and previously Lecturer of Finance. Andrew holds a PhD from Newcastle University where he also received a MSc Finance (distinction) and BA (Hons) in Economics and Politics.  Andrew’s main research interests are fintech, cryptocurrencies, corporate governance and high-frequency trading. He has published over 70 papers in over 20 leading international journals such as the Nature, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, European Economic Review, Journal of Financial Stability, European Financial Management, Financial Review, Quantitative Finance, British Accounting Review, amongst others.  His research has received considerable attention with over 6,000 citations and he regularly presents his work at leading international conferences as well as writing media pieces.

He has also received over £500,000 in research income and he is also an associate editor at British Accounting Review,  Economics Letters, European Journal of Finance, Global Finance Journal, International Review of Financial Analysis, and Research in International Business and Finance.  Andrew has received a number of best paper awards at international conferences is also co-organiser of the Cryptocurrency Research Conference. He has supervised 7 PhD students to completion with another 6 currently under his supervision. Currently Andrew teaches the module Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Applications as masters level, as well as Understanding Management and Financial Research at postgraduate research level. Previously, he has taught Fintech and Cryptocurrencies and Quantitative Methods for Finance at the ICMA Centre, as well as Portfolio Theory and Financial Markets at undergraduate level and the masters module Quantitative Research Methods in Finance, both at the University of Southampton. He has/is an external examiner of programmes at Durham University, Queen's University Belfast, the University of Edinburgh, SOAS, Birkbeck College.