Dr Geeta Duppati

Senior Lecturer in Finance

Keywords

Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility; Finance; International Finance; Sustainability

Qualifications: PhD; M.Phil; MEd & M.Com

Contact Details

Papers Taught

About Geeta

Dr. Geeta Rani Duppati had seventeen years of teaching experience in India, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, as well as Auckland University of Technology, before moving to Waikato Management School at the University of Waikato in 2010.

As an academic, she taught a range of papers in Corporate Finance, International Finance, Investment Theory, Capital Markets, and Financial Institutions, Entrepreneurial Finance, Financial Theory and Corporate Policy, Investment and Portfolio Management, Financial Theory and Corporate Policy, Sustainability and Responsibility Management, amongst various others for nearly twenty-eight years.

Her current research interests include Green Finance, Renewable Energies, Sustainability Performance, Exchange Traded Funds, Financing decisions, Liquidity Risk, and Ownership Structures.  She has several publications in the area and is involved in professional development work with large corporates' in India. In 2017 she received Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Research Grants.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7429-6057

Student Engagement - Summer Research Programme

Evaluating the performance of the Solar PV Energy Systems in New Zealand Schools and evaluating the performance of the Solar PV Energy Systems in New Zealand Maraes.

International Presence

Key Note Address titled 'Carbon Emissions-COP26: Implications to Energy Generating Companies' at the Plenary Session of the 3rd Rajagiri Conference on Economics and Finance (RCEF), organized by Rajagiri Business School (RBS), Rajagiri Valley P.O., Kakkanad, Ernakulam, Kerala 682039, India, held on the 20^th November 2021.

Invited Guest Speaker address titled 'Effects of Climate Change Policy Initiatives on the Economic Growth in New Zealand 'at the  NCU Research Workshop on Accounting & Finance, Nagoya City University, Japan, 3^rd September 2021.

As an Extra-Ordinary Associate Professor Dr. Duppati maintains her links with New West University, South Africa., Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India, and Institute of Public Enterprise in Hyderabad, India.

Teaching Philosophy

Connecting Teaching and learning to real life, Encouraging classroom engagement and interactions

Research Supervised

Research Supervised

Doctor of Philosophy

- Abhishek Mukherjee on the topic: CSR and its effects on Corporate financial performance: An Indian Evidence (Completed in 2017).

- Sanjeev Acharya on the topic: Corporate Governance issues and challenges in Nepalese Banks (Completed in 2018).

- Abidin A Alhassan on the topic: The Microfinance Revolution in Ghana; Social and Financial Inclusion or Extinction: A Case Study of Ghana Microfinance Institutions (Completed in 2019).

Supervision of Graduate Dissertations

Supervision of Graduate Dissertations

- MMS and MPM students, Dept of Finance, WMS, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

- MBA and MSc Accounting students, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

- MBA and PGDBM students, Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, India.

Research Interests

- Financing decisions

-Corporate Ownership Structures

- Exchange-Traded Funds

- Liquidity Risk and

-Corporate Governance and Institutional Investors