Dr. Alireza Tourani-Rad is a Professor in Finance and head of the Finance Research Centre at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He was a Professor of Finance at the Waikato Management School in New Zealand and Associate Professor at Masstricht University in the Netherlands. Dr. Tourani-Rad specialises in the corporate and international finance areas. He completed his Ph.D. at the Free University of Brussels and his Masters’ degree at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He was Executive Vice President of the European Financial Management Association and Secretary of the Limburg Institute of Financial Economics. He has held visiting positions at a number of leading European Universities. He has published extensively in international journals on aspects of European financial markets and completed works on Pacific-Basin financial markets.