Dr Roshanthi Dias

Biography

Dr. Roshanthi Dias is the Major Discipline Leader of Finance and Lecturer in Finance at Swinburne University of Technology. She has completed her PhD in Finance for which she has received a scholarship (Swinburne University Chancellors Postgraduate Research Award) from Swinburne University. She has completed a Master of Business Administration (Finance) from Swinburne University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Banking and Finance from the University of London (London School of Economics). In industry, Roshanthi has worked in the area of equity research in brokerage/investment banking and in foreign direct investment. Her research focuses on risk-taking practices of banks. Central to her work is the role of capital regulation in providing incentives for risk-taking and how financial innovation (i.e. credit default swaps) informs the capital regulation and bank risk-taking.  Her primary research interests include Banking/Regulation, Credit Default Swaps, ESG and Financial Markets.