Dr Biwesh Neupane
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Accounting and Finance
Personal statement
Biwesh Neupane joined the University of Strathclyde in January 2024 as a Senior Lecturer in Finance (Chancellors' Fellow in Sustainable Finance). Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Birmingham. He obtained his PhD in Finance from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has also completed PGCert in Higher Education and he is a Fellow of Advance HE (previously HEA).
Prize And Awards
- PhD scholarship from King Abdulaziz university
- Recipient
- 1/2026
Qualifications
- PGCert HE, 2020
- PhD in Finance, 2019
- PGCert in Research Methodology in Business Management, 2016
- MBA, 2012
Publications
- Firm-level AI exposure : measurement, determinants, and pricing implications
- Basu Sakshi, Thapa Chandra, Neupane Biwesh, Basu Amlan
- (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7575518
- India's GAAR experience : when policy uncertainty drives capital outflows
- Thapa Chandra, Neupane Biwesh, Shrestha Chaman, Bhattarai Narayan Prasad
- (2026)
- ESG blockholders and corporate green bonds
- Zhou Haoying, Kashefi-Pour Eilnaz, Neupane Biwesh
- The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Finance (2026) (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198935384.003.0026
- Policy information uncertainty and foreign institutional investors trading behavior : evidence from India
- Thapa Chandra, Neupane Biwesh, Shrestha Chaman, Bhattarai Narayan Prasad
- Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting Vol 67, pp. 45-79 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-025-01448-8
- Institutional investors and ESG misbehavior : value vs values-based investing
- Thapa Chandra, Acheson Graeme, Gupta Pratik, Neupane Biwesh
- (2025)
- Diverse investor reactions to the COVID-19 Pandemic : insights from an emerging market
- Neupane Suman, Fan Zhebin, Yanes Sanchez Daniel, Neupane Biwesh
- Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money Vol 93 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2024.102000
Research Interests
His research interests include sustainable finance, climate finance, international investments, institutional investors, emerging markets finance, corporate governance, trading behaviour, corporate bond markets, and initial public offerings.
Professional Activities
- RCF-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference 2026 - 7th Annual Meeting
- Contributor
- 9/10/2026
- Finance Research Letters (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 15/9/2026
- External PhD Examiner (September 2026): Robert Gordon University
- Examiner
- 15/9/2026
- Research in International Business and Finance (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 1/9/2026
- PhD Chair (August 2026): University of Strathclyde
- Examiner
- 27/8/2026
- External PhD Examiner (August 2026): University of York
- Examiner
- 24/8/2026
Projects
- Strathclyde Business School Seed Fund 2026
- Neupane, Biwesh (Principal Investigator) Thapa, Chandra (Principal Investigator) Basu, Sakshi (Principal Investigator)
- Firm-level AI Exposure: Human Audit
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026
- Stephen Young Global Leader Doctoral Scholarship worth £126,990+ for MYA MYET THWE
- Neupane, Biwesh (Principal Investigator) Marshall, Andrew (Co-investigator) Myet Thwe, Mya (Post Grad Student)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 01-Jan-2029
- Strathclyde Student Excellence Award - Phd Funding - Empirical Investigations of Foreign Equity Investments in an Emerging Market.
- Thapa, Chandra (Principal Investigator) Marshall, Andrew (Co-investigator) Neupane, Biwesh (Post Grad Student)
- 01-Jan-2015 - 26-Jan-2019
Contact
Dr
Biwesh
Neupane
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Accounting and Finance
Email: biwesh.neupane@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3167