Expertise
Empirical corporate finance
Overview
Hyun J. Im is a DPhil candidate in Financial Economics at Saïd Business School, specialising in Empirical Corporate Finance.
His supervisor are Prof. Oren Sussman at Saïd Business School and Prof. Stephen Bond at the Economics Department. His first-year study has been subsidised by Man Group Plc. and SBS Doctoral Teaching Fellowships, and his remaining studies will be fully funded by Saïd Foundation Scholarship and SBS Doctoral Teaching Fellowships.
Between 2004 and 2006, he completed the Master of Commerce (Honours) in Economics and Finance with the First Class Honours at the University of Sydney in Australia. He also passed the Level 1 and 2 exams for the Chartered Financial Analysts while he was studying at Sydney. Then he completed the MSc in Financial Economics with Distinction at Oxford University in 2006-2007.
Hyun emphasizes that he has been able to experience more benefits of Oxford education by taking advanced courses taught by faculty members of both Saïd Business School and the Economics Department and by attending lectures and seminars held at Said Business School, Economics Department, Mathematical Institute, Nuffield College and Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance.
Hyun aims to be a Professor in Finance at a world’s leading research university. He also has an ambition of directly contributing to the economic and financial development of his home country Korea and other countries.