Thursday 14 December 2006
Professor Renee Adams
UQ Business School's Professor of Finance Renée Adams is believed to be the first female to take on a strictly finance portfolio at the professorial level in Australia.
While there are a number of female full professors of accounting, accounting and finance, or financial studies at Bond University, Queensland has two female associate professors of finance (Laurie Prather and Li-Anne Woo) and an assistant professor (Simone Kelly), a Google search reveals no other female full professors of finance in Australia.
With a maths masters degree from Stanford and a PhD in economics from Chicago, Adams went to work first for the Research Department of the US Federal Reserve in New York, where she was also a visiting academic at Stern School of Business at New York University.
Adams said she started her academic career as an assistant professor in the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics and was also a visiting academic at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan before taking up her current position.
She said, "I was promoted to Associate Professor at Stockholm School of Economics in December 2005 and started at UQ Business School as Professor of Finance in 2006."
Adams said part of the reason she was interested in working at UQ was the international reputation of UQ Business School's Professor Steve Gray.
Adams said she was currently working with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) as part of a research team studying the proportionality between ownership and control in European Union listed companies.
"The study is part of the European Commission's efforts to base any policy initiatives it might wish to take in this area on objective data" she said.
Professor Renee Adams teaches finance to postgraduate students at UQ Business School.
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