Biography 

Dr Ayodeji Owoeye has been working at the Royal Agricultural University since February 2020. As a qualified accountant with a strong professional background in financial accounting he teaches in the areas of Finance, Accounting and Economics.

Ayodeji is a finance theorist and practitioner with extensive industry and academic expertise across a range of disciplines, including finance, mathematical finance, computational finance, and financial trading, combined with significant academic leadership experience.

Before joining the Royal Agricultural University, he taught a wide range of finance-related courses at several different UK universities over a period of around 10 years. These include Nottingham Trent University, the University of Nottingham, the University of Lincoln, Leeds Beckett University and Keele University.

Prior to this, Ayodeji gained 10 years of banking experience in Africa, working for high-profile financial organisations where he was involved in equity and economics research, risk management, credit analysis and audit.

His academic career began in Nigeria, where he obtained a BSc in Economics in 2001 and an MSc in Economics in 2003. He also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE). He later studied at Bangor University (UK), where he completed an MBA in Banking and Finance, followed by an MSc in Finance and Investment from the University of Derby (UK), and a PhD in Financial Economics, Banking and Accounting from the University of Salford Business School, Manchester (UK).

Ayodeji has also completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) and is a Fellow of the HEA (Higher Education Academy).

Ayodeji has supervised numerous undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations and has a strong track record of excellent teaching across the universities where he has worked. He currently supervises one PhD student.

Research

Ayodeji's core research mainly focuses on Empirical Finance, Corporate Finance, Financial Modelling, Financial Theory and Management, Financial Derivatives, Investment, Risk & Portfolio Analysis. In addition, he also studies and takes interest in Financial Econometrics, Logit/Probit Model, Time Series Analysis, Double hurdle model and generalized method of moments (GMM).

My areas of research focus are

  1. Economic Policy and Performance
  2. Finance and Accounting.

Under the Economic policy and Performance, the following topics can be considered.

  • Economics Development in Emerging Economies
  • Impact of FDI flows on Economic growth with focus on sub-Sahara Africa
  • Causes and Consequences of Income inequality in 21th Century.

Under the Finance and Accounting research areas. I focus on two areas, which are:

  • International Finance and Investments
  • Issues in Corporate Finance and Governance

International Finance and Investments

  • Emerging markets
  • International Finance
  • International portfolio investments
  • Corporate governance and firm performance
  • Macro-economy and stock markets 
  • Modelling returns, volatility, and co-movements 
  • Impact of regulation on stock returns and firm performance
  • Financial market and Banking issues
  • Market microstructure studies
  • Mortgage finance

Issues in Corporate Finance and Governance

  • Financial policy and restructuring
  • Initial public offerings
  • Executive compensation
  • Small business finance
  • Financial stability, bank regulation, supervision, and deposit insurance
  • Valuation, performance, competition and efficiency
  • Risk management and corporate governance

I am accepting PhD students interested in the above research areas.

Teaching

  • Module leader of the MSc programmes:
    • Financial Management  
  • Module leader of the BSc modules:
    • Corporate Finance
    • Business Finance
    • Management Accounting
    • Financial Management
  • Supervisor of BSc and MSc dissertations
  • Other Modules taught::
    • Business Informatics (BSc programme)
    • Global Business Environment (BSc programme)
    • Financial Decision (MBA programme)
    • Property Finance & Taxation
    • Farm Business Management
    • Rural Entrepreneurship
    • Entrepreneurship

Publications

Conferences attended

  • 7th Global Housing Finance Conference on May 25-26, 2016. Jointly hosted biannually by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) at Washington D.C United States.
  • Centre for Service Excellence (CenSE) Service Management Doctoral Colloquium Friday 28 October 2016 Venue: University of Edinburgh Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9JS (Poster Presentation Titled: Mortgage Finance in Nigeria, Myth or Reality, What Is the Way Forward?
  • Westminster Business Forum Keynote Seminar:  The UK Mortgage Market - competition, financial stability and the impact of Brexit Timing, Thursday, 2nd February 2017 Venue: Central London
  • Doctoral Symposium 10mins and 3MT Presentations, University of Salford Manchester, Salford Business School, 2016.  Presented a paper titled: The Nigerian Mortgage market: A paper of associated Constraints.
  • NARTI 11TH Annual Doctoral Conference, Sept 2016, Sheffield United Kingdom. Presented my PhD research  
  • Contemporary Issue submit, University of Harvard, USA, March 15 -16, 2017. Paper to be presented title: Developing an Empirical Investigation of the Nigeria Mortgage Finance Market.    
  • Doctoral Symposium 10mins and 3MT Presentations, University of Salford Manchester, Salford Business School, 2017 Delivered on Paper Titled: The Nexus of the Financial Market, Mortgage Market and Household Demand: The Nigeria Case.