Professor David Hillier
Associate Principal & Executive Dean
吃瓜tv Business School
Personal statement
Professor Hillier is Associate Principal and Executive Dean of the 吃瓜tv Business School. He is聽responsible for managing resources to provide teaching, learning, research and knowledge transfer activities in the 吃瓜tv Business School (SBS).
A Professor of Finance, David is the author of the largest franchise of Finance textbooks outside of the US and is a visiting professor at Politecnico di Milano. David is recognised as being in the top 3% of the most prolific finance researchers in the world over the past fifty years (Heck and Cooley, 2009) and appears regularly in the media as a business commentator. His YouTube channel of Finance lectures (professordavidhillier) has attracted more than 250,000 views worldwide.
David gained his PhD at the 吃瓜tv in 2000 and was appointed to full professor in 2002 at the age of 32. Between 2005 and 2010, David held the Ziff Centenary Chair in Financial Markets at the University of Leeds where he was Head of Accounting & Finance. He has acted as a World Bank consultant and provided consultancy advice to the NHS and several international stock exchanges. His executive clients include the Wise Group, Weir Group, Babcock, Wm Grant & Sons, Iberdrola, and David Brown Gears. He has taught in many international environments including China, Greece, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Oman, and Romania.聽
David鈥檚 research has been funded by a number of international organisations including the Italian and Spanish governments, the Thai Stock Exchange, Thai Securities and Exchange Commission, Thai Government Pension Fund, Australian Research Council, The Actuarial Profession, Rotman International Centre for Pension Management, and the Central Bank of Tanzania. Since 2000, his research has attracted more than 拢650,000 in funding.
David sits on the CBI Scotland regional council and the MCR Pathways National Advisory Council. 聽He is also a trustee of Mainstay Trust. 聽David has won a number of industry and academic awards, including the Institute of Directors Scotland Public Sector Director of the Year.
David is currently an editor of the Journal of Economics & Business and sits on the editorial board of many international journals.
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 2010
- Recipient
- 2009
Publications
- Barbaglia Martina, Taglialatela Jonathan, Giudici Giancarlo,
- Academy of Management Proceedings Vol 2025 (2025)
- , , Tsekeris Athanasios
- Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting Vol 58, pp. 1395-1450 (2021)
- Bajo Emanuele, Barbi Massimiliano,
- Journal of Banking and Finance Vol 114 (2020)
- , , Tsekeris Athanasios
- Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Vol 47, pp. 132-162 (2020)
- Aman Hiroyuki, Beekes Wendy, Berkman Henk, Bohmann Marc, Bradbury Michael, Chapple Larelle, Chang Millicent, Clout Victoria, Faff Robert, Han Jianlei, , Hodgson Allan, Howieson Bryan, Jona Jonathan, Linnenluecke Martina, Loncan Tiago, McCredie Bronwyn, Michayluk David, Mroczkowski Nick, Pan Zheyao (Terry), Patel Vinay, Podolski Edward, Soderstrom Naomi, Smith Tom, Tanewski George, Walsh Kathleen, Wee Marvin, Wright Sue
- Pacific Basin Finance Journal Vol 56, pp. 129-150 (2019)
- , Loncan Tiago
- Pacific-Basin Finance Journal Vol 54, pp. 1-12 (2019)
Research Interests
Professor Hillier publishes in the area of Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance. 聽His PhD research is related to Corporate Insider Trading and this is an area in which he is still very active.
Potential PhD supervision areas are Corporate Insider Trading and any area of Corporate Governance. 聽Professor Hillier has access to a large number of databases in this area that are made available to his PhD students.
Professional Activities
- Speaker
- 2/11/2024
- Contributor
- 23/10/2019
- Chair
- 2010
- Editor
- 2010
- Editor
- 2010
- Invited speaker
- 2010
Projects
- Ma, Linxiang (Co-investigator) Hillier, David (Principal Investigator) Su, Xuewen (Post Grad Student)
- 01-Jan-2024
- Marshall, Andrew (Co-investigator) Zhu, Min (Post Grad Student) Hillier, David (Principal Investigator)
- Corporate Sustainability and Sustainable Finance
- 01-Jan-2022
- Hillier, David (Principal Investigator) Hannon, Matthew (Co-investigator) Shaw, Eleanor (Co-investigator)
- 19-Jan-2018 - 02-Jan-2018
- Andriosopoulos, Dimitris (Principal Investigator) Hillier, David (Co-investigator) Paudyal, Krishna (Co-investigator) Tang, Leilei (Co-investigator)
- 25-Jan-2016 - 24-Jan-2018
- Hillier, David (Academic)
- Australian Research Council, A$404,485, for research into the economic cost of insider trading - culture, legislation, governance, gender and crisis. Co-applicants: Allan Hodgson, Robert W Faff, Tom Smith, Sirimon Treepongkaruna, Suntharee Lhaopadchan, 2013-2015.
- 01-Jan-2013 - 31-Jan-2015
- Hillier, David (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2011
Contact
Professor
David
Hillier
Associate Principal & Executive Dean
吃瓜tv Business School
Email: david.hillier@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3896