Professor Tapas Mishra PhD (Economics), MSc (Quantitative Economics), MPhil (Economics), FHEA
Head of Department Banking and Finance, Professor of Banking and Finance, Director of the Centre for Empirical Research in Finance and Banking

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Tapas Mishra is currently a Professor and Head of Banking and Finance at the Southampton Business School, where he lectures in the subject areas of Quantitative Finance and Advanced Time Series Modelling. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Previously he held academic position (as Associate Professor of Economics and Time Series Econometrics) at the Economics Department in Swansea University where he taught a range of subjects, which include Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis, Econometric Theory, Mathematical Economics and Applied Economics. Prior to joining academia, he served as a scientist within the World Population Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, as a senior researcher at the Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden, and as a senior research officer at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, India.
He has lead several research projects awarded by both national and international funding bodies, such as the Leverhulme Trust, the Ford Foundation and Winrock International, the Swedish Research Council, and the European Commission’s FP6 Framework. His papers have been published in leading scientific journals, such as Nature, World Development, Social Indicators Research, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Macroeconomics, European Journal of Finance, Manchester School, and Economics Letters, among others. His recently published book on Dynamics of Distribution and Diffusion of New Technologies (published by the Springer) has been downloaded over 2800 times. His research has been presented at refereed national and international conferences, such as the Royal Economic Society, the American Economic Association, Economic History Association, EURAM, Econometric Society, and Science and Public Policy Conference at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Over the past years, he has organized and chaired conferences/workshop.
Tapas joined an integrated MSc and PhD program under the European Doctoral Program at the Centre for Operations Research and Econometrics, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and completed an MSc in Quantitative Economics with distinction. He completed PhD under Professor David de la Croix. Tapas also completed an MPhil degree in economics from the Delhi School of Economics under the supervision of Prof Pami Dua and a post-doc in economic theory and cliometrics under Prof Claude Diebolt at BETA, University of Strasbourg, France. He has been awarded a number of prestigious scholarships, such as Ford Foundation-Winrock International Fellowship, CORE Fellowship, IIASA post-doc fellowship, National Scholarship and Junior Research Fellowship (from the Government of India). He was a Marie-Curie post-doctoral researcher at the Vienna University of Technology and worked under Prof Alexia Prskawtez.
Tapas is an accomplished educator who not only achieves excellence in teaching but also contributes actively towards making education process effective, by serving for instance, as a panel member of Cambridge Access Validating Agency (to evaluate proposal for HE (Business) Validation), and as an external expert of the European Doctoral Program, among others. He has received several teaching awards (which includes the student nominated Excellence in Teaching and Learning/Distinguished Teaching Award from Swansea University in 2013).
A detailed list of his publications can be found at the Google Scholar
2018, August - : Professor of Banking and Finance, Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK.
2014, September – July 2018: Associate Professor, Department of Banking and Finance Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK.
2012, May - August 2014: Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, School of Management, Swansea University, UK.
2008 October – May 2012: Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Swansea University, UK.
2007 January - August 2008: Scientist, World Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria.