Kevin Keasey

Kevin Keasey is Professor of Accounting and Finance, Director of the International Banking Institute and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.

Early life and education
Keasey was born in Hartlepool on 5 October 1955, and educated at Brinkburn Grammar School. He was a keen rugby player and represented County, and trialled for Northern England, at the School level. He was an economics undergraduate of St Cuthbert’s Society, Durham University and studied for his MA and PhD in economics at Newcastle University. During his university career, he had a number of jobs including grave digging, a gardener, blast furnace 3rd hand, storekeeper, plumber’s mate, RAC mechanic and professional economist at Cleveland County Research. The hobbies and interests he developed during his early years and university career have lasted him a lifetime and include photography (kevinkeasey.com), woodworking, boats and motorcycles.

Career
Keasey has a BA in Economics from the University of Durham, an MA in Public and Industrial Economics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a PhD in Economics also from Newcastle. He was a Reader in Accounting and Finance at the University of Warwick until 1989 when he was appointed to his current post at Leeds.

Keasey established and developed the International Institute of Banking and Financial Services. In 2005, he established the Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance (CASIF), a doctoral school specialising in a small number of advanced subjects in finance. He founded Ecom Group Ltd and was a founder and chairman of Aquilo plc until the end of 2006. During 2009 and 2010 he was responsible for co-ordinating the teaching and research of enterprise studies at the University of Leeds and initiated the Leeds Enterprise Centre. He has held director and non-executive positions at several companies in information technology industry.

Research
The 1997 Journal of Management survey ranked Keasey the joint 7th most published author globally, and one of his articles was ranked as a top 50 worldwide management article in 2007. Currently, he is an editor or included in editorial board of five academic journals, such as Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, Journal of International Banking Regulation, and Journal of Accounting and Finance. He has authored 12 books, monographs and edited volumes on corporate governance, financial regulation and financial services, small business and financial markets, and behavioural finance.