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• ​Alper Karais a Professor of Finance and Subject Group Leader (Research & Enterprise) of Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics at the Huddersfield Business School, University of Huddersfield.  He is in academia since 2004 and worked in various universities. Prior, Alper was a bond and FX trader for five years in the treasury of Disbank (now BNP Paribas/TEB).
  

• ​​​Alper serves as an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Finance and International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, and on the Advisory Board of British Accounting and Finance Association, Financial Markets & Institutions Special Interest Group. ​

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• Alper's research agenda is multidisciplinary, related to the stability of the financial system and well-being of its participants. It covers topics in bank securitization, financial inclusion and access to finance, bank governance and syndicated loan markets. He published in world leading journals and co-authored three books. His work featured in globally important policy making institutions such as the Fed, ECB, IMF and BIS. He is awarded research grants from British Academy and Nuffield Foundation and acted as a research consultant to the ECB and other institutions. 
  

• Alper is an experienced teacher and taught a spectrum of banking, finance and economics modules both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level (MSc, MBA and Executive Education), including overseas in Singapore, Hong Kong, Bahrain and Kazakhstan. He acts as an external examiner for UG&PG programmes in various business schools. He specialises in integrating Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters Eikon platforms into the design of modules and degree programmes. ​
  

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Recently published work and working papers 

• ​​The predictive strength of MBS yield spreads during asset bubbles (2020), academic article
  

• ​Pension De-Risking and Firm Risk: Traditional versus Innovative Strategies (2019)- Pension Institute working paper
  

• Do reputable issuers provide better-quality securitizations? (2019) - European Central Bank working paper

• Chair-CEO generation gap and bank risk-taking (2019) - academic article
  

• ​Securitization, bank behaviour and financial stability: A systematic review of the recent empirical literature (2019). - academic article 

• ​Securitisation – the complex financial product that fuelled the financial crisis is making a comeback (2019) - The Conversation 

• Trustee reputation in securitization: When does It matter? (2019) - academic article
  

• Securitization and credit quality in the European market (2019)- academic article