Jonathan A. Batten is Professor of Finance at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Melbourne, Australia. He was previously the Deputy Dean Research and Innovation, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT. Prior to these positions he was a Professor in Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Monash University, Australia, Seoul National University, Korea, and University Utara Malaysia. Over the past decade he has also held Honorary Professor positions at the University of Sydney, Australia, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, China and most recently, at the University Sains Malaysia. He is currently co-editor of the highly ranked Finance Research Letters, and advisory/senior editor of Elsevier’s Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money and Emerging Markets Review. Prior to working in academia, he held senior treasury and risk management consulting positions with the Bank of Tokyo, Credit Lyonnais, IBM Consulting and Reuters Ltd.
Professor Jonathan’s published research crosses several disciplines: firstly, in the business area on insider trading and market manipulation, bond pricing and corporate foreign exchange risk management; secondly, in applied mathematics, on complexity in financial time series and measurement of market integration; and thirdly, in economic policy on financial market development and the societal impacts of foreign direct investment. His current research involves assessing the impact on banking and financial markets of the worldwide shift to renewable energy in the post COVID world; portfolio adjustment to the effects of climate change; and the roles of multinational corporations in international capital markets.
He has received several external research grants from the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank on financial market development in the Asia-Pacific region, the international payments organisation SWIFT and the Bank for International Settlements on the internationalisation of the RMB. He was the previous President of the Eurasian Business and Economics Society (EBES) and has served on many national external research committees in economics and finance. He is currently an external appointee on the Academic Council and Special Advisor to the Dean of Business, the University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
