Syed Walid Reza is the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology. Syed received his PhD in Finance in 2013 from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. His research interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, politics and finance, and corporate innovation. His research has been presented at many prestigious international conferences, including the Finance and Responsible Business Practices Conference at the University of California Berkeley; the 12th China International Conference in Finance in Chengdu; the Indian School of Business Summer Research Conference in Finance, Hyderabad; the Financial Intermediation Research Society conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia; and the European Finance Association annual conference in Lugano, Switzerland.His paper was also nominated in 2013 for the Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance (semi-finalist) at the Financial Management Association Annual Conference in Chicago.