Dr Zunaira Aman

Lecturer in MBA International Business & Economics

Dr Aman is a Lecturer for the MBA in the Executive Business Centre at Greenwich Business School. In the past, she has worked as a research fellow and, later, lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and Bloomsbury London. She has significant teaching experience at Postgraduate and Undergraduate levels for over ten years in the UK. In addition, she supervises MBA, MSc and MA student projects and dissertations. She was responsible for teaching lectures on the International business and global economy, Economics for business, Econometrics for business and research as well as tutorials on various themes of international business, economic development, and institutions.

She specialises in trade economics for emerging markets. Her research aims at exploring the role of institutional quality, trade economics and regional level competitiveness. Her work contributes to the debate over the empirical relationship between export competitiveness, trade liberalisation, and institutions with panel data. Her work explores the REER misalignment and investigates different levels of misalignment and contributing factors.

In 2017, Zunaira studied CILT at Queen Mary University of London with special focus on large group and small group teaching, constructive feedback for assessment and effectiveness of diversification of assessment ranges. Her teaching philosophy embraces diversity and employs research-backed teaching methods, consistently aiming to create an optimal learning environment that caters to students from diverse backgrounds.

She has completed her PhD from Queen Mary, University of London, with a thesis titled “External Competitiveness, Trade & Financial Openness in Emerging Markets: The Role of Institutions, Capital Inflows, and Trade Agreements”. Her research is focused on the determinants of export competitiveness in emerging markets. She has investigated the role of trade liberalisation, financial openness, and institutional quality in emerging countries, estimating the degree of REER misalignment, and assessing their driving factors.

Responsibilities within the university

Research

  • Research on emerging economies and competitiveness and role of institutional quality
  • Research on trade openness, REER misalignment and trade agreements
  • Research on financial openness, capital flows and quality determinants
  • Supervised MSc, MBA, and MPhil students on international business and economics themes

Teaching

  • MARK1263 MBA Dissertation Project (Module Leader)
  • ECON1165 International Economics and Innovation (Module Leader)
  • COMP1913 International Data Analytics
  • BUSI1604 Foundations of Scholarship and Research (Tutor)
  • BUSI1728 Professional Practice (Cohort Leader - April Cohort)
  • Supervising MA, MBA, and PhD dissertations

Leadership and Administration

  • BUSI1728 Professional Practice (Cohort Leader - April Cohort)
  • BUSI1360 Professional Practice (Cohort Leader - April Cohort)
  • Curriculum Development - Validation paper work support, developed Modules such as International Economics, Emerging economies, trade, and Geo Economics and Risk


Program and Module Development

  • Module Design and Development for BSc (Business Administration CMDA) Programme
  • Module Design and Development for Executive MBA (EMBA) Programme
  • Assisted curriculum and module design for MBA Global Programme
  • Developed Business Environment and Economic Trends, International Data Analytics, Geo Economics and Risk Management and School Infrastructure Management

Placement and Personal Tutor

  • Support as tutor to MBA IB students, which supports learning during their postgraduate stay at Greenwich
  • Supervised MBA Dissertation Students

Awards
  • Queen Mary University of London, PhD Fellowship Departmental Scholarship
  • Postgraduate scholarship for MS(Res), 2004 - 2006

Recognition
  • Member of CMI
  • Associate Member, Royal Economics Society
  • External Examiner for Business and Management
  • Member of CGR, Queen Mary University of London

Research / Scholarly interests

Zunaira’ s research examines External Competitiveness, Trade & Financial Openness in Emerging Markets, The Role of Institutions, Capital Inflows, and Trade Agreements. She has recently published a paper in the Journal of Institutional economics on “Currency regimes and external competitiveness: the role of institutions, trade agreements and monetary frameworks”

Zunaira’s main empirical research interest involves pooled data analysis, and panel data econometrics, for emerging economies and regional trade agreements, alongside institutional issues. Therefore, she is also interested in the applied panel data econometrics model.

Zunaira also has an interest in module development related to International Business and Trade. In the past she has developed many modules under the themes of global economy and trade, international business and emerging economies, these modules have successfully passed the degree-awarding status. She also changed the assessment methods, in International Business themes modules; of formative assessment from traditional assessment methods to effective & innovative learning.

Zunaira has also worked as an Academic Integrity officer in the past.

Recent publications

Work in Progress:

  • Aman, Z., Mallick, S. K., & Nemlioglu, I. (2023). Trade liberalization and export competitiveness in emerging Markets: The role of institutional factors.

Book Chapter Published :

  • Aman, Z., Mallick, S., and Nemlioglu, I. (2024). Chapter 12: Financial integration, institutional quality, and real exchange rates: evidence from emerging markets. In Handbook of Financial Integration, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. available from: < https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803926377.00020>.x

Published Journal Papers:

  • Aman, Z., Mallick, S. and Nemlioglu, I. (2022) “Currency regimes and external competitiveness: the role of institutions, trade agreements and monetary frameworks,” Journal of Institutional Economics. Cambridge University Press, 18(3), pp. 399–428. doi: 10.1017/S1744137421000503. (Click here to read the paper)
  • Aman, Z., Granville, B., Mallick, S. K., & Nemlioglu, I. (2022). Does greater financial openness promote external competitiveness in emerging markets? The role of institutional quality. International Journal of Finance & Economics, 1–25. (Click here to read the paper)

Presentations
  • The impact of financial liberalization on currency stability to be presented in EEFS online conference -June 2021.
  • Invited Speaker at Teaching Methods in Higher education: During and Post Covid-19- July 2020-by ICH Media
  • Workshop presentation at QMUL on Developmental Issues within Emerging Economies; politics and institutions Nov-2018.
  • Conference Presentation at BFWG June-2018 “Explaining REER Misalignment: The Role of Currency Regimes, Financial Openness & Trade Agreements.”
  • Conference Presentation at EEFS 2016 “Does financial openness help Improve external Competitiveness: Evidence from Emerging Markets.”