Dr Jeremy Eng-Tuck Cheah

Role

Jeremy Cheah is an Associate Professor of Decentralised Finance at Nottingham Business School (NBS) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Digital Finance at the University of Southampton. In August 2021, he was chosen to participate in the 2021/22 inaugural NTU Vice-Chancellor's Future Research Leaders programme after a highly competitive University-wide selection process. He was also appointed as an inaugural member of the British Academy of Management Peer Review College (3-year appointment from January 2022) and has been appointed as a UKRI ESRC Peer Review College member (from 27 January 2025 - now).

He is the Accounting and Finance PhD Co-Coordinator for REF2021, where he leads the PhD programme on behalf of the Accounting and Finance Department. As a member of the Research Strategy Group, he reports to the Associate Dean for Research of the Business School and sits as a member of the NBS School Research Degrees Committee (SRDC). Jeremy is also a line manager for three senior lecturers. In addition, he provides support to the Accounting and Finance Head of Department by managing the day-to-day line management duties and responsibilities, such as setting appraisal objectives, appraising staff, and observing colleagues’ teaching. Furthermore, he assists in recruiting new staff and mentors early-career researchers.

He is the module leader for the taught postgraduate modules for Corporate Restructuring and Valuation of Investment Products. He is also involved in the postgraduate Principles of Financial Technology module. He is also one of the mentors on the Consultancy Project module. Jeremy is an experienced teacher with over 25 years of teaching experience using the Inverse Research Questions Pyramid to help postgraduate students identify and construct research questions for their dissertation projects. He was also one of the nominees for the Most Engaging Lecturer Award by the University of Southampton Students' Union in 2019.

Career overview

He joined NBS in August 2019 after spending almost three years at the Southampton Business School of the University of Southampton as Associate Professor of Finance. Before joining SBS, he had a short stint working at Sheffield Business School at Sheffield Hallam University (2016) as Reader in Finance.

He also held various appointments including Lecturer in Finance at Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield (2011 to 2016) and Assistant Professor of Financial Markets at Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (2003 to 2008). He began his academic career in 1999 as a lecturer in various appointments in leading public and private universities, university colleges and colleges in Malaysia and has since also held visiting teaching appointments in Bulgaria, Greece, and Singapore.

He is also a Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA) since 2018. He completed his PhD research work in about 2 years and 5 months and was awarded his PhD in May 2011 by the University of Southampton (full scholarship with full fee waiver and monthly stipend). He published two papers while working on his PhD (British Journal of Management, ABS 2018-4* - paper accepted after 1st round of review; Applied Economics, ABS 2018-2*- paper accepted after reducing the length but no other changes required).

External activity

Jeremy has brought in over £650,000 worth of internal and external grant funding, various types of sponsorships and awards. In particular, he was a recipient of the ESRC Impact Acceleration Award worth £260,000 in 2018. He was also successful in securing an ESRC SCDTP funding for a post-doctoral fellow position and an ESRC SCDTP PhD Scholarship funding both totalling up to about £200,000 in 2019.

He also secured a JPA PhD scholarship from the Malaysian government to supervise a PhD student worth up to £180,000 in 2018. He also held further grants from ESRC training bursary, Santander Research Mobility Award and others amounting to about £10,000.

In addition, Jeremy has won numerous awards including an award to study a Summer School module (Forecasting Financial Markets) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2006. He secured eight corporate sponsorships to attend seminars held by Harvard Business School and John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University faculty members from 2003 to 2008.

He has also a considerable amount of experience providing consultancy to both public and private organisations, including Birmingham City Council in the UK and Securities Commissions Malaysia.

He has also been invited to the prestigious 22nd Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) to be held in June 2021 in Korea as Chair of the Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and Risk Management in Financial Technology stream.

He is currently a member of the Sage Open Editorial Board (from 2024 - now). He also sat on the Editorial Board of Heliyon in 2018-2019 and has acted as an ad-hoc grant application reviewer for Danish Council for Independent Research and Czech Science Foundation.

Executive Guest Editor (2025) – Call for Papers for Special Issue of the British Accounting Review (ABS3*) – Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Finance Research and Practice. For more information about the BAR Special Issue, see:

Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Finance Research and Practice

He was also an international external assessor for promotion to the rank of Associate Professor for Florida Atlantic University (USA) and Massey University (NZ).

He is also the founder and main organiser of the highly successful Centre for Finance, Technology and Society annual conference:

Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets and Banking

• Conference keynote speakers included: Professor Brian Lucey (Trinity College Dublin, Editor of International Review of Financial Analysis, ABS3*; 2023); Professor Dimitri Vayanos (LSE, Past Managing Editor of Review of Economic Studies, ABS 2018-4*; 2024); Professor Cheng-Few Lee (Rutgers University, Editor of Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, ABS 2018-3*; 2024); Professor Douglas Cumming (Florida Atlantic University, Past Editor of Journal of Corporate Finance, ABS 2018-4*; 2023 and 2024); Associate Professor Sofia Johan (Florida Atlantic University, Associate Editor of British Journal of Management, ABS 2018-4*; 2023); Professor Michael S. Pagano (Villanova University, Co-Editor of The Financial Review, ABS 2018-3*; 2024); Associate Professor Tina Yang (University of South Florida, Co-Editor of The Financial Review, ABS 2018-3*; 2024); Associate Professor Muhammad Ali Nassir (University of Leeds, Associate Editor of Journal of Environmental Management, ABS 2018-3*; 2024); Professor Sir Oliver Hart (2016 Nobel Prize Winner, Harvard University; 2025),  Professor Tarun Ramadorai (Editor of Review of Financial Studies, ABS4**; 2025), Professor Thierry Foucault (Co-Managing Editor of Journal of Financial Quantitative and Analysis, ABS4*; 2025); Professor Dirk Jenter (Associate Editor of Journal of Finance, ABS4**; 2025).
• Papers submitted to the conference included submissions  from Harvard University, Columbia University, Imperial College, Yale University, University of Tokyo, University of Maryland,  University of North Carolina, London Business School, Pennsylvania State University, Santa Clara University, Baruch College, University of Quebec, Rice University, Rutgers University, Bocconi University, Duke University, Athens University of Economics and Business, University of the Aegean,  Bank of International Settlement, Central Bank of Chile, Central Bank of Ireland, Tilburg University, National Bank of Moldova, McGill University, University of Turin, Deakin University, University of Texas (Rio Grande Valley and Dallas), Laval University, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hiroshima University, KU Leuven, University of Florida, Bar Ilan University, University of West Attica, Boston College, Indian Institute of Management (Shilong), Warsaw School of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Yeshiva University, Macquarie University, Cyprus University of Technology,  Gutenberg University of Mainz, University of New South Wales, University of Vaasa, Northeastern, Vilnius University,  Universiti Sains Malaysia, Soochow University, various UK universities (Edinburgh, Nottingham Trent, Kingston, Leeds, Exeter, Nottingham, Bath, Southampton, Reading, Loughborough, London South Bank, Lancaster, Dundee, Cranfield, Anglia Ruskin, Glasgow, Durham, Glasgow Caledonian, Roehampton, etc.)
• Special Issues/Sections/Collaborations linked to the conference: The Financial Review (ABS 2018-3*) and International Journal of Finance and Economics (ABS 2018-3*) and British Accounting Review (ABS 2018-3*)

He is also the founder and main organiser of the Mid-Career Academic Network for Finance (MAN). It is aligned to one of the objectives of the Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets and Banking online conference: 'to create a scholarly network to examine the challenges of dynamic decision-making in a business environment fit for the future. Contact: info@midcareernetwork.com