Associate Professor Dr Zaheer Anwer

Associate Professor Dr Zaheer Anwer

  • Deputy Dean (Internationalisation)
  • Associate Professor
Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
  • ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Business School

Biography

Zaheer Anwer is equipped with more than 14 years of teaching and industry experience. He holds teaching and research interests in Quantitative Finance, Corporate Finance, Monetary Economics, Investments and Islamic Banking. He has worked in leading Pakistani Universities like University of Management and Technology and The University of Lahore. He has published in journals like Finance Research Letters, Journal of Business Research, Annals of Operations Research, Accounting and Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal and International Review of Economics and Finance.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • PhD, INCEIF Malaysia, 2018
  • MBA, Quaid-I-Azam University, Pakistan, 2002
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK
  • Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice, ºìÐÓÊÓƵ University, Malaysia, 2024

Research Interests

  • Corporate Finance
  • Islamic Finance
  • Monetary Economics
  • Portfolio Managemen

Teaching Areas

  • Finance
  • Islamic Finance
  • Business Analytics

Courses Taught

  • Advanced Risk Management, Theories and Practices
  • Financial Management
  • Business Finance
  • Internet and Mobile Banking Operations
  • Commercial Banking Operations
  • Fundamentals of Accounting
  • Islamic Banking and Finance
  • Risk Management for Islamic Financial Institutions
  • Research Methods
  • Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management

Notable Publications

  1. Anwer, Z., Khan, A., Castellani, D., Goodell, J. W., & Paltrinieri, A. (2025). Bankruptcy risk contagion: considering systemically important FinTech firms. The European Journal of Finance
  2. Anwer, Z., Boulanouar, Z., Farid, S., & Migliavacca, M. (2025). Does climate policy uncertainty affect the top financiers of the energy sector?. International Review of Economics & Finance
  3. Anwer, Z., Khan, M. A., Hassan, M. K., & Singh, M. K. H. (2024). Assessing dynamic co-movement of news based uncertainty indices and distance-to-default of global FinTech firms. Research in International Business and Finance
  4. Anwer, Z., Goodell, J. W., Migliavacca, M. & Paltrinieri, A. (2023) Does ESG impact systemic risk? Evidencing an inverted U-shape relationship for major energy firms. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
  5. Anwer, Z., Kan, A., Hassan, M. K., & Rashid, M. (2022). Does the regional proximity lead to exchange rate connectedness? Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money
  6. Anwer, Z., Naeem, M. A., Hassan, M. K., & Karim, S. (2022). Asymmetric connectedness across Asia-Pacific currencies: Evidence from time-frequency domain analysis. Finance Research Letters
  7. Anwer, Z., Mohamad, S., Paltrinieri, A., & Hassan, M. K. (2021). Dividend payout policy of Shariah compliant firms: Evidence from United States. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal
  8. Anwer, Z., Azmi, W., & Mohamad, S. (2020). Shariah screening and corporate governance: The case of constituent stocks of Dow Jones US Indices. International Review of Economics & Finance

Achievements & Accolades

2018 -
Received third best paper award at 1st Global Conference on Islamic Economics and Finance (GCIEF2018), Sasana Kijang, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

Professional Associations

  1. Member Editorial Board Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration
  2. Member Editorial Board International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management