Samuel A. Beatson

Sam undertook his Ph.D., entitled ‘Foreign Investors in the Chinese Stock Market’ at Nottingham University, during which he won several scholarships. He is now an award-winning business school lecturer at Nottingham, in addition to being a recipient of a Lord Dearing prize. He has taught Masters Students, including MBA students in empirical methods, corporate governance, quantitative approaches to research in business and finance, in addition to personal professional development, corporate risk and consumer ethics. He was formerly a module convenor and teaching fellow at King's College London's Lau China Institute where he was complimented on many occasions for his contribution to the China and Globalisation programme. Sam has advised and led projects as a specialist in economic and social research to a number of UK Government departments and arms-length bodies, across a number of high profile national and international policy programmes. Prior to this he was awarded a business and international relations degree with Chinese language at the Sheffield School of East Asian Studies. Sam specializes in bringing advanced analytical economic and financial skills and capabilities to complex, data- and policy- driven projects in multi-disciplinary teams, requiring project management, research, teamworking, stakeholder engagement and delivery to tight timescales.