Rate My Professor Kym Brown

Dr. Kym Brown serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Banking and Finance at Monash Business School, Monash University. She holds a PhD from Monash University and has built her career exploring the intersections of technological change, ethics, and global financial systems. Her research specializations encompass banking ethics and governance, fintech and technological disruption—particularly reconsidering traditional forms of money—Islamic finance, gender representation in academic finance, board diversity, inequality, bank efficiency, financial development, cryptocurrencies, and bond markets. This work aligns with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals such as No Poverty (1), Affordable and Clean Energy (7), Decent Work and Economic Growth (8), Reduced Inequalities (10), Responsible Consumption and Production (12), Life on Land (15), and Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (16). Brown has supervised PhD students from 2003 to 2025 and participated as Chief Investigator in the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority-funded project "Syndicated Lending and Tranching: Implications for APS113" (2010-2011).

In teaching, Brown provides structured, engaging experiences for large and diverse cohorts, serving as Chief Examiner, lecturer, and tutor for BFF3231 International Finance and lecturer for fintech topics in BEX2000 Digital Technology and Business. She is a board member of the non-profit Alliance of Finance Educators (AoFE), supporting advancements in finance higher education across Australia and internationally. Brown's scholarly contributions include 33 research outputs, such as the book chapter "Startrack Holdings: a case of inclusive leadership and decision-making" (2025, Cases and Exercises on Sustainability Accounting, Edward Elgar Publishing); "Persuasion in Islamic finance" (2020, Australian Journal of Management, 46(2): 272-286); "Sustainable development and cryptocurrencies as private money" (2020, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 47: 163-184); "The inequality debate: do financial markets matter?" (2020, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 27: 100384); and "Impact of finance on growth: does it vary with development levels or cyclical conditions?" (2019, Journal of Policy Modeling, 41(6): 1195-1209). Her publications have accumulated over 2,300 citations, underscoring her influence in comparative banking, developing country finance, Islamic finance, and financial ethics.