Abdullahi Dahir Ahmed

Abdullahi D. Ahmed is a Professor in Wealth Management and Head of Department of Financial Planning and Tax at the School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain, College of Business and Law, RMIT University. Professor Ahmed is a leading academic in the fields of financial planning, wealth management and financial services. He has published widely in areas of behavioural finance, individual investor decision making, governance of financial institutions, individual investor decision making, capital market development and interactions of individual investors with financial institutions. In recent years, Ahmed's research work has covered areas of wealth management, financial market reforms and firm behaviours, capital flows and market integration, international banking and international macroeconomic policy. Ahmed is a committee member of Financial Planning Academic forum which drive the advancement and the development of university-level financial planning programs.

He specializes in asset pricing, risk management, sustainable finance and governance of emerging market corporations. His research interest spans issues in microstructure of financial markets, risk and portfolio management and impacts of financial-technology innovations in developing economies. Dr Ahmed has taught a number of postgraduate courses including advanced financial advisory practice, managing of financial institutions, Wealth Creation and Estate Planning and business research methods.