About Us

Sustainable Finance Cluster (SFC-SEF) is a research cluster operating within the School of Economics and Finance, Massey University. The cluster aims to deliver high quality research and consultations alongside knowledge exchange series that help highlight the role of Finance discipline for sustainability in business practice and the society. As a result, the scope of SFC-SEF covers several important and current issues that link Finance and Sustainability together, including climate finance, green finance, (renewable) energy finance, corporate social responsibility, and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance)

Core Members


Professor Hung Do
Director of Sustainable Finance Cluster

Hung’s research focuses on energy finance, financial risk management, behavioral finance, sustainable finance, and financial markets. His works have been disseminated in well-regarded international conferences and published in high-quality journals. Hung has also won several prizes and awards in both research and teaching.

Professor Ben Marshall
MSA Charitable Trust Professor in Finance

Ben is currently ranked in the top 1% of authors on the international working paper website SSRN (based on downloads of his papers) and his work has been discussed in numerous newspapers and investment blogs and has won numerous other prizes and awards.

Professor Sasha Molchanov
Associate Head of School of Accountancy, Economics & Finance

Sasha’s research focuses on international finance, politics, and corporate social responsibility. His works have been published in several high-profile journals including Review of Financial Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, and Management Science.

Assoc. Prof. Harvey Nguyen
Associate Professor in Finance

Harvey’s research interests are corporate governance, sustainable finance, behavioral finance, and capital markets, with recent works focusing on climate change and capital markets, insider transactions, credit risk, labor finance, corporate social responsibility, and financial accounting. He has won several research prizes and awards.

Dr Mia Pham
Senior Lecturer in Finance

Mia’s research interests are corporate finance, behavioral finance, capital markets, and financial accounting, with recent works focusing on executives’ attributes and corporate outcomes, culture and finance, climate change and capital markets. Mia has published in FT50 and other high-quality journals. She has won several research prizes and awards

Professor Nuttawat Visaltanachoti
Dean’s Chair in Finance

Nuttawat’s research focuses on financial markets, climate finance, corporate finance and commodity markets. His works have been published in top-tier Finance journals and been discussed in MarketWatch, New York Times, CNN Money.Com, the National Business Review, the NZ Herald, North Shore Times and over 30 popular investing blogs.

Associate Professor George Wu
Associate Professor in Finance

George’s research focuses on empirical asset pricing models/theories and corporate finance theories, particularly in the fields of corporate social responsibility and investors’ lottery investing behaviour. His works have been published in FT50 and other high-quality journals.

Professor Liping Zou
Vice Dean of the Massey Institute at NUFE

Liping’s research areas include market microstructure, corporate finance, corporate social responsibility, and portfolio management. She looks after the international programme for the School of Economics and Finance at Albany and is among the key persons managing collaborations between Massey and Chinese Universities.


Affiliate Members


Prof. Hamish Anderson

Professor in Finance

Prof. Faruk Balli

Professor in Finance & Economics

Assoc. Prof. Candie Chang

Associate Professor in Finance

Dr. Jasmine Fang

Senior Lecturer in Finance

Assoc. Prof. Jing Chi

Associate Professor in Finance

Dr. Maggie Hao

Senior Lecturer in Finance

Assoc. Prof. Jing Liao

Associate Professor in Finance

Prof. Hatice Ozer Balli

Professor in Applied Econometrics

Assoc. Prof. Yafeng Qin

Associate Professor in Finance

Prof. David Tripe

Professor in Banking

Prof. Jeff Wongchoti

Professor in Finance

Prof. Martin Young

Professor in Finance