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Professor Ania Zalewska is a Professor of Finance in the School of Business at the University of Leicester, where she serves as Director of the Centre for Finance, Governance, and Sustainable Growth and holder of a Prestigious Research Chair. She joined the University of Leicester School of Business in February 2023. Previously, she was Professor of Finance and Director of the Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy at the University of Bath School of Management from 2005 to 2023, Assistant Professor of Finance at the Limburg Institute for Financial Economics, Maastricht University from 2000 to 2005, Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bristol from 1998 to 2000, and Research Assistant at the London Business School in 1998. Ania holds a PhD in Economics from London Business School, a PhD in Mathematics from the Polish Academy of Sciences, an MA in European Economic Studies from the University of Leicester, and two MSc degrees with Distinction in Theoretical Mathematics and Numerical Methods and Programming from Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland.

Ania Zalewska's research specializations include the development, regulation, and innovation in financial markets and financial intermediaries, behavioural aspects of investing and market participation by retail investors, sustainability and ESG investing, financial regulation and its design, implementation and consequences for markets, institutions and investors, properties of capital markets, fintech, governance and board issues, executive remuneration, and privatisation and regulation of utilities. She has published extensively in leading academic journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and Economic Journal, with key publications including "Saving with Group or Individual Personal Pension Schemes: How Much Difference Does It Make?" (Management Science, 2022), "Bankers’ Remuneration Reforms and New Challenges" (Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2022), "Mutual Funds’ Exits, Financial Crisis and Darwin" (Journal of Corporate Finance, 2020), "The Impact of Regulation on Market Risk" (Journal of Financial Economics, 2006), and "Stock Market Risk in the Financial Crisis" (International Review of Financial Analysis, 2016). Ania has served as Associate and Guest Editor for the Journal of Banking & Finance and Guest Editor for Journal of Empirical Finance, and is co-founder of the Finance Research Consortium and the International Virtual Research Seminars in Finance. She has delivered keynote addresses at numerous international conferences and seminars and has advised governmental bodies including the Financial Services Authority, Competition Commission, Department of Energy and Climate Change, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, National Infrastructure Commission, and HM Revenue and Customs. Her research has informed regulatory debates such as setting hurdle rates for Contracts for Difference in green energy auctions, price regulation of utilities, and climate finance at COP26. Currently, she is the Academia-Government Coordinator and UK representative at the Management Board of the EU-COST Action on Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance.