Dr Alireza Rohani

Biography

Dr. Alireza Rohani is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Middlesex University, London. His research interest includes social and environmental accounting with the main focus on carbon accounting and biodiversity. He has published papers in highly ranked journals such Business Strategy and the Environment, International Journal of Finance & Economics, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, among others. He has been involved in different research funds such as “SME Financing for Biodiversity: Building Nature Measurement and Impacts into SME Financing (‘SME FinBio’) - with Agri-Food Sector Case Study Example” and “Scoping Study for Survey of Early-stage Entrepreneurs”. He has presented his research works in a number of highly-rated European and UK conferences including the European Accounting Association (EAA), British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), and Management Accounting Research Group (MARG). He has been awarded PGCertHE making me a fellow of UK Higher Education. He has supervised more than thirty master students from MSc. Financial Management, Banking and Finance, and Investment and Finance in the fields of CSR, Merger&Acquisition, Islamic Baking, corporate governance, and so forth. He has also supervised three PhD students to completion, serving as the director of study and a second supervisor.

Selected Publications:

Liu, L., Shahrour, M.H., Wojewodzki, M. and Rohani, A., 2025. Decoding energy market turbulence: A TVP-VAR connectedness analysis of climate policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk shocks. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 210, p.123863. 

Shahrour, M.H., Rohani, A., Wojewodzki, M. and Tran, D.V., 2024. Carbon Performance and Financial Performance: How R&D Makes a Difference Pre‐and Post‐Paris Accord. International Journal of Finance & Economics.

Lodh, S., Deshmukh, N. and Rohani, A., 2024. Stemming the tide: Does Climate Risk Affect M&A Performance?. Business Strategy and the Environment, 33(2), pp.858-881. 

Rohani, A. and Jabbour, M., 2024. Carbon Media Legitimacy in UK Companies: Actions or Words?. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 25(2), pp.298-324. 

Rohani, A., Jabbour, M. and Aliyu, S., 2023. Corporate Incentives for Obtaining Higher Level of Carbon Assurance: Seeking Legitimacy or Improving Performance?. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 24(4), pp.701-725.  

Rohani, A., Jabbour, M., & Abdel-Kader, M. (2021). Carbon Performance, Carbon Disclosure, and Economic Performance: The Mediating Role of Carbon Legitimacy in the UK.  International Journal of Accounting and Economics Studies.9(1), 8-20.

Research Grants:

‘Scoping Study for Survey of Early-stage Entrepreneurs.’ Funder: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. Investigators: Owen, R., Lodh, S., Rohani, A. Value: £10,000. Outcome: Funded. 

‘SME Financing for Biodiversity: Building Nature Measurement and Impacts into SME Financing (‘SME FinBio’) - with Agri-Food Sector Case Study Example’. Funder:Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Investigators: Owen, R., Lyon, F.,  Lodh, S., Rohani, A., Viavatenne, C., Vickers, I., Ropiquet, A. Value: 99,905.75. Outcome: Funded. 

‘Carbon Accounting and Merger & Acquisition’. Funder: Middlesex University Business School. Principal Investigators: Rohani, A., Lodh, S., and Deshmukh, N. Value: £4,000. Outcome: Funded.