Associate Professor Graham Partington B.Sc (Wales), M.Ec (Hons) (Macq.)Graham is currently deputy head of school at the University of Technology Sydneys School of Finance and Economics. He has also lectured in finance and economics at Macquarie and Sydney Universities as well as the University of British Columbia and Bangor University (North Wales). He obtained his undergraduate degree at Bangor and after some teaching experience there in finance, set out to cycle around the world, arriving in Australia in 1976.Graham has been instrumental in the design, development and implementation of undergraduate finance majors and post graduate programs in finance. Widely published, he has co-authored two books, contributed to several others and published more than 15 papers in academic journals (winning prizes for two), as well as giving research presentations at conferences and submissions to government enquiries.His consulting work includes valuation, dividend policy and the cost of capital, and his research areas are dividends; rights issues; financial distress; takeovers; cost of capital; earnings and returns; estimating the probability and timing of value changing financial events.
