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Dr. Cecil Lui
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Dr. Cecil Lui is a finance and banking academic. As an academic, he has broad interests in financial management, corporate finance, investment management, portfolio management, security analysis, investment banking, international banking, money and banking, fixed-income securities, derivatives, and financial econometrics. As a researcher, he reads and conducts research in empirical asset pricing, empirical corporate finance, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, and capital structure. As an educator, he is known for his inspirational teaching style and has particular interests in life-long education, the adoption as well as the evaluation of outcome-based education and the use of technology in education, primarily in the areas of distance education, problem-based learning and computer mediated communication.
He earned his doctor of philosophy degree in finance from City University of Hong Kong - ranked No. 55 in the world and ranked No. 5 in "Top 50 Under 50" (the world’s top 50 universities established within the last 50 years) according to the 2019 Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings, where he studied the corporate restructuring activities and the changes in capital structure, together with the valuation effects in response to such activities and changes, of listed companies in Australia. Cecil also was educated in the United States and Canada and holds a bachelor degree and a masters degree, both in economics.
Dr. Lui has substantial and significant international experience, especially in less developed countries. He has been an associate professor in finance at American University of Afghanistan since 2014; has been an audit committee member at Islamic Bank of Afghanistan (formerly Bakhtar Bank) since 2015; and has been a Board of Supervisors member at Islamic Bank of Afghanistan (formerly Bakhtar Bank) since 2016.
In his free time, he enjoys giving advice and offering guidance to small investors in value investing, private equity, and risk management.
