About us

The Centre for Finance, Governance, and Sustainable Growth (FGSG) was created in January 2025 as a research platform for exploring how financial markets, fintech innovations, and evolving investor behaviours shape opportunities for sustainable investment and economic transformation. We investigate how technology, governance, innovation, and new investment models can drive inclusive growth, enhance financial resilience, and unlock sustainable value for businesses, investors, and society at large.

By combining rigorous academic inquiry with real-world relevance, FGSG is shaping financial and entrepreneurial systems that foster innovation, empower investors, and deliver enduring economic, social, and environmental prosperity.

We foster dynamic, enduring partnerships with universities, industry stakeholders, investors, fintech pioneers, regulators, policymakers, funding bodies, and communities worldwide. These collaborations drive knowledge exchange, catalyse investment opportunities, and support the scaling of impactful financial and entrepreneurial solutions.

The FGSG leaders and members, individually and collectively, have a track record of interdisciplinary, world-changing research excellence, external funding and partnerships.

Advisory board

• Renée Adams, Professor of Finance at the Said Business School, University of Oxford.
• Paul Ash, President of The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and Chair of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA).
• John Boulton, Director of Policy at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
• John Taylor, Member of the Prudential Regulation Committee, Bank of England.
• Russell Wermers, Paul J. Cinquegrana ’63 Endowed Chair in Finance and Director of the Center for Financial Policy at Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA.