He received his PhD from the Cambridge University. Before he joined Cass Business School, he worked as a fund manager in an investment bank and as an auditor in an accounting firm. He has been a consultant to various financial institutions in City. He has published many papers, some of which have appeared in journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Econometric Theory, and Real Estate Economics. He has wide research interests in finance and financial econometrics, but the current focus is on asset pricing, behavioural finance, and real estate finance.