About
Dr Anna Sarkisyan is a Senior Lecturer in Banking and Finance at the University of Essex's Essex Business School (EBS), with dual roles as Associate Director of Research and Impact (Finance Group) and Deputy Director of the Essex Finance Centre. She holds a PhD from Bayes Business School, MSc degrees from the University of Southampton and Plekhanov University of Economics, and a BSc from Plekhanov University of Economics. Her research focuses on empirical banking, securitisation, and corporate governance, with notable contributions to journals like the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the European Journal of Finance.
Dr Sarkisyan’s academic leadership includes organizing the Essex Finance Centre Research Seminar Series and co-organizing the Essex Finance Centre Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance. She has supervised PhD students such as Latifah Ali O Baeshen (2023) and Mais Saleh Ali Sha'Ban (2018), examining topics like financial inclusion and bank capital structure. Her 2010 European Central Bank Lamfalussy Fellowship underscores her scholarly impact.
Her research explores intersections of financial inclusion, gender disparities, and banking misconduct. Recent work addresses how board diversity influences bank performance and misconduct, particularly in the EU. She co-authored sections on securitisation for the Oxford Handbook of Banking and contributed to global analyses of financial inclusion trends.
Teaching responsibilities include International Banking (BE632) and the Finance Research Project (BE937). Her interdisciplinary approach bridges banking practices with ethical governance, reflecting her role as an Academic Fellow at the Centre for Responsible Banking & Finance at the University of St Andrews.
