Robert Annabel

Email: r.annabel@unsw.edu.au

Supervisors: Professor Arghya Ghosh, Associate Professor Anthony Asher, Associate Professor Scott Donald, Professor Hazel Bateman

Rob is fourth year PhD candidate. His research interests include corporate governance and industrial organization. In his thesis, Rob is developing improved methods for inferring the corporate objective (e.g., profit maximisation, social responsibility, stakeholder value maximisation, etc) that institutional investors (e.g. pension funds, banks, insurance companies) encourage at publicly listed companies based on changes in company-level climate-change-related actions and outcomes (e.g. emissions, mitigation and adaptation). The first paper of his thesis titled ‘Firm-level GHG emissions and an institutional investor’s active ownership objective’ is currently available as a working paper on SSRN. This working paper has been presented at the Australasian Econometric Society 2023, the inaugural Markets, Contracts and Organisations conference, the 29th Global Finance Conference, 12th Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference, and the 29th CEPAR Colloquium.

Rob is currently a recipient of the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff) scholarship. He also has three years industry experience in actuarial consulting related to capital markets, banking and general insurance and over five years lecturing and tutoring experience in a variety of courses, including actuarial theory and practice, probability and statistics, life insurance modelling, portfolio management and derivatives valuation, game theory and big data econometrics.