Rate My Professor Aleksandar Stojanovic

Professor Aleksandar (Alex) Stojanovic is Head of School for Accounting, Finance & Economics in the Faculty of Business at the University of Greenwich. He earned a BA in Economics with honours from the University of Belgrade, an MBA in Finance from Bayes Business School, London, and a PhD in Finance from Bayes Business School, London. Stojanovic began his career in commercial banking at Komercijalna Banka Belgrade. He later became a founding member and Director of Research at Bradley Financial, a City of London-based equity research and financial consulting agency. His consulting experience includes international banking projects on International Payment Systems in association with the Bank of England and the impact of the Euro on the UK banking industry with the Corporation of London. Previously, he advised the Bankers Association on Payment System Reform in Serbia and served as a Visiting Professor on the Cass Executive MBA and International Masters in Quantitative Finance at the South European Centre for Contemporary Finance, as well as a Visiting Lecturer in Finance at Bayes Business School's Executive MBA programme.

In addition to his teaching on banking, finance, and risk management courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, Stojanovic holds several leadership roles: Director of the Centre for Governance, Risk and Accountability, Co-Director of the Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) Research Centre, member of the Business Faculty Executive, and Board Member (Director) of Greenwich University Enterprises Ltd. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), his research interests encompass sovereign debt rescheduling, financial risk management, risk attitudes and investments, corporate governance, and London as a financial centre. Notable publications include 'Green loans and firm performance: evidence of signalling and impact investing effects' (2025, European Financial Management, co-authored with Hoang, Benbouzid, Mallick); 'Deregulating the volume limit on share repurchases' (2024, International Journal of Financial Studies, with Sodhi); 'Bank credit risk and macro-prudential policies: role of counter-cyclical capital buffer' (2022, Journal of Financial Stability, with Benbouzid, Kumar, Mallick, Sousa); and multiple papers on share repurchases, corporate payouts, and repurchase determinants (2023-2025, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Heliyon, with Sodhi, Mateus et al.).