Dr. Badar Nadeem Ashraf is a Senior Financial Reporting and Audit Lecturer at LSBU Business School. He joined LSBU in 2022, having more than 10 years of international working experience in higher education and industry. He originally studied accounting, completing his Chartered Management Accountant certification, followed by an MA in Economics from the University of the Punjab, and a PhD in Finance from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He has focused on how country-level formal and informal institutions affect firm-level practices, having found that national-level culture/political structure/financial openness have strong causal relationships with firm dividend pay-out policies/risk-taking behaviour. Besides winning several government research grants, he has spoken at various international conferences. Moreover, he has led the accounting and finance special interest group SZABIST as the Director. He has also performed duties as an external examiner and grant applications reviewer, and has chaired/participated as a member in hiring committees, curriculum review committees, assessment committees, and research seminars and committees, among others.