We are delighted to announce the affilliation of MEAFA to three new international scholars: Dr Christina Dargenidou, Dr Christos Grambovas and Dr Ivana Raonic.
Dr Dargenidou is a lecturer in Finance in Xfi (Centre for Finance and Investment) at Exeter University. She completed her PhD thesis at the University of Wales, Bangor whilst holding a doctoral research fellowship funded by the European Commission (Human Potential Network: HARMONIA project) to investigate the capital market consequences of the accounting harmonisation and standardisation in Europe. Before her appointment at Xfi, she had been working for the National Bank of Greece as an analyst. Her research interests include equity valuation and financial statement analysis
Dr Grambovas is a research fellow at the Centre for the Analysis of Investment Risk, at the University of Manchester. Christos held joint positions as a teaching and research fellow in the University of Wales at Bangor and post-doctoral research fellow in the University of Valencia (Spain). While undertaking his PhD (Wales), he was a pre-doctoral research fellow in the University of Valencia and at the Autonoma University of Madrid, as part of the team on the European Commission FP7 research project 'Harmonia'. Christos's research interests’ fall at the interface of accounting and finance, including how accounting information can be used for the valuation of listed companies, accounting conservatism, and the interconnection between accounting and economic issues.
Dr Raonic is a lecturer in Financial Analysis at Cass Business School, at CITY University, London. She has previously taught at the University of Siena where she spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow. She also has practical experience with PriceWaterhouseCoopers where she worked as an auditor. Her research interests include the analysis of capital markets, corporate governance and earnings properties.