Professor Robert Faff

Robert Faff is a Professor of Finance and the Associate Dean of Research at Bond Business School. Formerly, the Director of Research at the UQ Business School. He has an international reputation in empirical finance research. Prof Faff has secured 14 Australian Research Council grants, with total funding exceeding $4 million. He has over 320 refereed journal publications, more than 13,000 career citations, and an h-index of 57.

His particular passion is nurturing the career trajectories of early career researchers. Robert has supervised over 40 PhD students to successful completion and examined 50 PhD dissertations.

Building on a 35-year academic career, his signature focus is “Pitching Research," achieved worldwide penetration with more than 14,000 SSRN downloads, inclusion at over 300 pitching talks/events at 37 Australian universities and spanning 52 different countries. In addition, Robert is Editor-in-Chief of Pacific-Basin Finance Journal; formerly: Editor of Accounting and Finance (2002-2011) and Associate Editor of several journals including Abacus and Australian Journal of Management.