Bonnie Buchanan

Professor Bonnie Buchanan is the Profi9 Professor of Sustainable Finance and Energy Transition at the University of Vaasa. She is also the Academic Director at the Finnish Investment Institute. Professor Buchanan is also the Co-Editor of International Journal of Finance and Economics (an ABS 3 journal). Professor Buchanan also serves on the AI Consortium, established by the Bank of England and UK FCA. She is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey.

Previously, Professor Buchanan served as the Associate Dean (International) in the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, University of Surrey, UK. She was also the REF Lead (UoA 17) -Business Management. Professor Buchanan was also the founder and director of the Sustainable and Explainable FinTech (SAEF) Center at the Surrey Business School (SBS) and a Professor of Finance. She is the Immediate Past Head of the Department of Finance and Accounting at SBS (2019 - 2023). Professor Buchanan was also a fellow of the University's Center of Sustainability, the Center for AI and the Centre of Digital Economy (CoDE).

In 2018-2019, Professor Buchanan served as the USA Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair of Business and Economics at the Hanken School of Economics, Finland. Prior to this, Professor Buchanan worked at Seattle University where she was the Howard Bosanko Professor in International Finance and Economics and the George Albers Professor. She also served as the MSF program director and MBA program director at Seattle University.

Professor Buchanan has published in leading international journals including the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, American Business Law Journal, Journal of International Financial Markets and Institutions, International Review of Financial Analysis, Oxford Review of Economic Policy and European Journal of Finance. Her research on shareholder proposals has been recognized with the Hoeber Memorial Award for Outstanding Article in American Business Law Journal and her work has been cited in the Financial Times. She has research expertise in FinTech, AI in financial services, securitization, CSR and law and finance. Professor Buchanan has also taught in Australia, Russia and Finland. She was the Editor in Chief of Journal of Risk Finance between 2013-2021.

Professor Buchanan also appears in the media on FinTech, big data and AI issues.