Simone Kelly

Simone Kelly is an Associate Professor at Bond Business School, Bond University, and serves as Associate Dean for Student Affairs & Service Quality. Her research focuses on finance, accounting, and commodity pricing, with emphasis on real options, corporate governance, and market dynamics in sectors like gold mining and carbon emissions trading. She is affiliated with the Centre for Data Analytics and actively mentors PhD students.

• PhD in Finance from the University of Queensland (2004)
• Key research areas: Real Options, Commodity Pricing, Corporate Governance
• Recipient of the KPMG Teaching Prize (1998)
• Member of the Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, Australian Society of CPAs, and Women in Finance

Her recent work explores term structure models for carbon prices, oil, and copper commodities, utilizing state space and Monte Carlo simulation techniques. She has developed open-source software (LSMRealOptions, NFCP) to advance quantitative finance research. Awards include the 1998 KPMG Teaching Prize, and her research has been cited 326 times (Scopus h-index of 4).