Professor Chandra Thapa
Accounting and Finance
Personal statement
I joined Strathclyde Business School in 2012 as a Lecturer in Finance. Before joining the department I held two years of lectureship position at University of Stirling. Currently I assume the position Chair (Professor) in Finance. My area of research relates to environmental, social and governance corporate financial risks. My research outputs have featured in international journals like British Journal of Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money and more. My teachings are primarily focused on Corporate Finance, International Financial Management, and Derivatives & Treasury Management.
Prize And Awards
- Honorable Mention-Student Paper
- Recipient
- 28/2/2020
Qualifications
- PhD, Cranfield School of Management
- MRes, Cranfield School of Management
- MBA (International Banking and Finance, with Distinction), Birmingham Business School
Publications
- 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)
- Do foreign institutional investors improve board monitoring?
- Neupane Biwesh, Thapa Chandra, Marshall Andrew, Neupane Suman, Shrestha Chaman
- Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money Vol 91 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2024.101962
- Context-specific experience and institutional investors' performance
- Neupane Suman, Thapa Chandra, Vithanage Kulunu
- Journal of Banking and Finance Vol 149 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2023.106786
- Tax Threats and the Disruptive Market Power of Foreign Portfolio Investors
- Marshall Andrew, Farag Hisham, Neupane Biwesh, Neupane Suman, Thapa Chandra
- (2022)
- The disruptive market power of foreign portfolio investors in the face of tax threat
- Farag Hisham, Marshall Andrew, Neupane Biwesh, Neupane Suman, Thapa Chandra
- (2022)
Teaching
Interests and Experience (2009 – 2025, undergraduate and postgraduate, including executive MBA):
- Finance and Financial Management
- Advanced Corporate Finance and Topics in Corporate Finance
- Quasi-natural Experiments in Finance Research
- Quantitative Methods for Finance
- International Financial Management
- Treasury Management and International Finance
- Derivatives and Treasury Management
- International Financial Economics
- Corporate Finance
Institutions (countries) Taught:
- University of Strathclyde, UK
- YMCA and Strathclyde EMBA, Singapore
- CDC Management Development Centre and Strathclyde EMBA, Malaysia
- Institution of Banking and Finance and Strathclyde EMBA, Oman
- Strathclyde EMBA Dubai
- University of Stirling, UK
- Skema Business School, France
- EM Strasbourg Business School, France
- Cranfield University, UK
Teaching Excellence Award, Short Listing and Nominations:
Awarded
1. University of Strathclyde 2022 Teaching Excellence Award – Best in Faculty.
One of the nominees stated:
Chandra helped students to work better and is a challenging, helpful, motivating, passionate,e and supportive teacher who makes a 3-hour lecture fun.
2. Stirling University 2011 RATE (Recognising Achievement in Teaching Excellence) Award.
One of the nominees stated:
“When Chandra teaches, he excites the class and shows enthusiasm in what he is teaching. Something I have never experienced with other lecturers. His overall knowledge of finance is vast, and he always offers himself for any kind of support to the students and makes himself available. As well as these reasons, he is friendly and chats to students before and after lectures, asking how they like the course and how they are finding the workload. Lecture slides and examples are always detailed but concise.”
Short listed
2016 Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) – University of Strathclyde: Best in Faculty - Business
Nomitated
RATE 2011 (Stirling University): Most Inspiring Tutor
RATE 2012 (Stirling University): Excellence in Teaching in the School of Management
RATE 2012 (Stirling University): Most Inspiring Tutor
TEA 2015 (University of Strathclyde: Most Enthusiastic Teacher
TEA 2016 (University of Strathclyde): Most Enthusiastic Teacher
TEA 2017 University of Strathclyde): Most Supporting Teacher
External Examiner:
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Abertay University
- University of Sunderland
Professional Activities
- Nepalese Accounting and Finance Association (NAFA) 2nd Annual Meeting
- Contributor
- 27/7/2026
- Nepalese Accounting and Finance Association (NAFA) 2nd Annual Meeting
- Organiser
- 27/7/2026
- ENTFIN 2026 — 10th Anniversary Conference
- Contributor
- 1/7/2026
- ClimateXChange Assembly 2026: Accelerating Climate Action
- Recipient
- 26/2/2026
- PhD Thesis Examination
- Examiner
- 25/1/2026
- Keynote Speaker
- Speaker
- 3/11/2025
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
- SBS Cross-Disciplinary Fund
- Pathak, Prakash (Principal Investigator) Thapa, Chandra (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- Secured JARA PhD funding [15% of tuition fee and maintenance (£14,851)]
- Thapa, Chandra (Principal Investigator)
- JARA PhD funding [15% of tuition fee and maintenance (£14,851)] of an outstanding student from Kathmandu University, Nepal. Student was ranked 1st in JARA application.
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
- 2533 JARA - Corporate Green Bonds: Demand, Drivers of Demand, and Impact Reporting
- Thapa, Chandra (Principal Investigator) Marshall, Andrew (Co-investigator) Risal, Hari Gopal (Post Grad Student)
- JARA 2533 £99,007
- 01-Jan-2021 - 02-Jan-2025
- Green Finance
- Thapa, Chandra (Principal Investigator)
- JARA Applicant: Hari Risal (2021 – 2024), Topic: Green Finance
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2024
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Thapa, Chandra (Principal Investigator)
- SEA Application: Pratik Gupta (2021 – 2024), Topic: Corporate Social Responsibility
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
Contact
Professor
Chandra
Thapa
Accounting and Finance
Email: chandra.thapa@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3891