The Centre for Climate Risk and Resilience is uniquely positioned to support businesses in taking urgent and immediate collaborative action by providing evidence-based research, education and advice to policymakers, business, and community leaders.
As a multi-disciplinary hub that is virtual and open, we create opportunities for collaboration among researchers and academics to leverage their research capabilities. Supporting cross fertilisation between different disciplines, the Centre helps broaden knowledge and provide new research context for extending research expertise.
Professor Martina Linnenluecke
Director
Professor Linnenluecke is an internationally recognised scholar who conducts research on the strategic and financial implications of corporate adaptation and resilience to global environmental change, with a specific focus on the impacts of climate change.
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Associate Professor Gerhard Hambusch
Co-Director
Gerhard is an Associate Professor of Finance at the UTS Business School with research and industry engagement interests in sustainable finance, ESG, and corporate governance. He is a co-investigator on ASIC's capacity-building project on climate-related financial disclosure and has led industry-partnered research on carbon emissions from lifestyle and investment choices. His recent research studies real-time ESG sentiment in media, its influence on market volatility, and how institutional investors' legal origins shape ESG performance.
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Mona Mashhadi Rajabi
Accounting Discipline
Mona is a researcher in climate finance; climate policy; decarbonisation strategies; and sustainability. Across various research projects, she has been working on estimating the financial and economic cost of transitioning to net zero; as well as quantifying the climate risks during this transition.
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Yun Shen
Yun's research interests cover the emerging and important topics related to the resilience of companies; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) disclosures; Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) reporting; climate risk; corporate culture and fraud; CEO characteristics; corporate finance; corporate governance; default risk; (anti-)money laundering; as well as accounting conservatism.
Md Maruf Hossan Chowdhury
Management discipline
Maruf is an expert in modelling business operational and supply chain problems, opportunities and impacts using statistical and mathematical tools to facilitate data driven decision making. His latest projects include measuring sustainability impact of Slyp's receipts and cost efficiency analysis of National Diabetes Services Scheme and digital transformation of medical grade footwear supply chain.
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Helena Li
Management discipline
Helena’s research centres on how organisations strategically make decisions relevant to their growth; primarily in the domain of global strategy and innovation, with a growing emphasis on corporate social responsibility (CSR). By examining the factors shaping these strategies, Helena particularly focuses on two interconnected elements: the interface between the state and firms (e.g., institutions/political hazards/government policy, political connections, political leadership) and the role of strategic leadership in the decision-making process (e.g., managers’ various experiences, capabilities, and conflicts).
Sanjoy Paul
Management discipline
Sanjoy is an expert in supply chain disruption management and resilience. His multidisciplinary expertise includes modelling and optimisation, applied operations research, simulation and empirical research.
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Mengheng Li
Economics discipline
Mengheng's research aims to integrate macroeconomic and econometric analyses with climate analytics. His expertise lies in high-dimensional spatial time series modeling and nonlinear non-Gaussian state space models. Peer-reviewed publications in econometrics, macroeconomics, and climate science underscore the impact of Mengheng’s research on understanding and addressing the intricate interplay between climate dynamics and economic fluctuations.
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Christina Nikitopoulos Sklibosios
Finance discipline
Christina is a leading researcher in energy finance, renewable energy, sustainable finance, and commodity markets. Her research examines renewable energy's impact on electricity markets, climate change transition risk assessment, green bonds, carbon reduction strategies, and macroeconomic drivers of prices and volatilities in energy markets.
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Kylie-Anne Richards
Finance Discipline
Kylie-Anne is an accomplished expert in Sustainable Finance with a PhD from UNSW. She specialises in areas such as green finance, decarbonisation, and carbon markets. Kylie serves as the Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Fortlake Asset Management and contributes to industry and academic advisory boards.
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Deborah Cotton
Finance Discipline
Deborah's research interests include environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in investment decisions and impact investing. Within ESG her main interests include gender issues, human rights more broadly and climate change.
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Isa Hafalir
ECONOMICS Discipline
Isa is a micro-theorist who uses game theory tools and mainly works in the area of “market design.” He primarily builds and studies models motivated by real-world applications. More specifically, Isa’s research interests are in game theory and market design, with a particular emphasis on auction theory, matching theory, and mechanism design.
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CCRR associate members
Accounting Discipline
Economics Discipline
Finance Discipline
Lorenzo Casavecchia, Talis Putnins, Lucy Zhao
Marketing Discipline
Adrian Camilleri, Kaye Chan, Mahdi Vesal
Management Discipline
David Beirman, Mihajla Gavin, Walter Jarvis, Alice Klettner, Robert Perey, Jochen Schweitzer, Stephen Schweinsberg, Moira Scerri
Other UTS Partners
Penny Allan, Martin Bryant, Jayan Chirayath Kurian, Lisa Lake, Craig Longman, Elizabeth Mossop, Lorenzo Paolieri, Timo Rissanen, Song Shi, Leanne Sobel, Cameron Tonkinwise
Madeline Combe, Leanne Gaul, Godsway Kadey, Bernardo Mendonca Severiano, Xiaoxi Zhang
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We welcome enquiries from prospective Honours and PhD candidates and are happy to discuss research opportunities.