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13 Keele Management School News l Summer2015 Staff news Dr Alena Audzeyeva promoted to Senior Lecturer in Finance. Since joining KMS in 2009, Alena has made a major contribution to the design and delivery of all Finance-related programmes. In particular, as Course Director for Postgraduate Programmes in Finance, she has led on design and delivery of the new MSc Finance and MSc Financial Risk Management. She has introduced several highly distinctive modules involving innovative teaching methods that draw together core finance theory and industry-specific trading and risk management skills, including the use of the Bloomberg Trading Platform, an area in which Keele, with the UK’s largest Bloomberg-compatible training suite outside London, is as a result sector-leading. Alena’s teaching at postgraduate and undergraduate levels is significantly shaped by her research expertise in the area of credit risk and, in particular, sovereign debt, the importance of which has increased significantly since the onset of the financial crisis. Alena Audzeyeva Dr Gabriella Legrenzi promoted to Senior Lecturer in recognition of the excellence of her research in public finance and fiscal policy and her contribution to learning and teaching. Gabriella Legrenzi Her publications include 20 articles in highly ranked journals, many of them cited by several central banks and international organisations across the world. Gabriella is a Fellow of the internationally highly ranked Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, and a member of the CESifo Research Network and the Euro-Area Business Cycle Network. She has taught an exceptionally wide range of modules at Keele, spanning across six different programmes, with innovations including a focus on the link between mathematical models and the real world, and improvements to electronic feedback. Professor Istemi Demirag delivered the keynote speech at the World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) Annual Conference held in Istanbul, Turkey 1st June 2015. WASD aims to promote the exchange of knowledge, experience, information and ideas among academicians, scholars, professionals, policy and decision makers, industry executives, students and ordinary citizens to improve the mutual understanding of the roles of science and technology in achieving sustainable development all over the world. The theme of this year’s conference was to provide a forum for industry, practitioners, government officials and academics to discuss their research in the field of green behaviour and how it contributes to an environment in which information and tools are needed to make greener choices for actions that support environmental goals and Z[ܚ[