Dr Alireza Rohani

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

Alireza Rohani

  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Accounting, Finance & Economics

  • Location London

Research activities

Carbon and biodiversity performance and disclosure, climate risk, climate policy uncertainty, corporate governance. 

Selected Publications:

Liu, L., Shahrour, M.H., Wojewodzki, M. and Rohani, A., 2025. Decoding energy market turbulence: A TVP-VAR connectedness analysis of climate policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk shocks. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 210, p.123863.

Shahrour, M.H., Rohani, A., Wojewodzki, M. and Tran, D.V., 2024. Carbon Performance and Financial Performance: How R&D Makes a Difference Pre‐and Post‐Paris Accord. International Journal of Finance & Economics.

Lodh, S.,Deshmukh, N. and Rohani, A., 2024. Stemming the tide: Does Climate Risk AffectM&A Performance?. Business Strategy and the Environment, 33(2),pp.858-881. 

Rohani, A.and Jabbour, M., 2024. Carbon Media Legitimacy in UK Companies: Actions or Words?. Journalof Applied Accounting Research, 25(2), pp.298-324. 

Rohani, A.,Jabbour, M. and Aliyu, S., 2023. Corporate Incentives for Obtaining Higher Levelof Carbon Assurance: Seeking Legitimacy or Improving Performance?. Journalof Applied Accounting Research, 24(4), pp.701-725.  

Rohani, A., Jabbour, M.,& Abdel-Kader, M. (2021). Carbon Performance,Carbon Disclosure, and Economic Performance: The Mediating Role of Carbon Legitimacyin the UK.  International Journal of Accounting andEconomics Studies.9(1), 8-20.

Research Grants:

‘Scoping Study for Survey of Early-stage Entrepreneurs.’ Funder: Department for Business, Energy & IndustrialStrategy. Investigators: Owen, R., Lodh, S., Rohani, A. Value: £10,000. Outcome:Funded. 

‘SMEFinancing for Biodiversity: Building Nature Measurement and Impacts into SMEFinancing (‘SME FinBio’) - with Agri-Food Sector Case Study Example’. Funder:NaturalEnvironment Research Council (NERC). Investigators: Owen, R., Lyon, F.,  Lodh, S., Rohani, A., Viavatenne, C., Vickers, I., Ropiquet, A. Value: 99,905.75. Outcome:Funded. 

‘Carbon Accounting and Merger &Acquisition’. Funder:Middlesex University Business School. Principal Investigators: Rohani, A.,Lodh, S., and Deshmukh, N. Value: £4,000. Outcome: Funded.


Biography

Dr. Alireza Rohani is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Middlesex University, London. His researchinterest includes social and environmental accounting with the main focus oncarbon accounting and biodiversity. He has published papers in highlyranked journals such Business Strategy and the Environment, InternationalJournal of Finance & Economics, Technological Forecasting & SocialChange, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, among others. He has beeninvolved in different research funds such as “SME Financing for Biodiversity:Building Nature Measurement and Impacts into SME Financing (‘SME FinBio’) -with Agri-Food Sector Case Study Example” and “Scoping Study for Survey ofEarly-stage Entrepreneurs”. He has presented his research works in a number ofhighly-rated European and UK conferences including the European AccountingAssociation (EAA), British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), andManagement Accounting Research Group (MARG). He has been awarded PGCertHEmaking me a fellow of UK Higher Education. He has supervised more than thirtymaster students from MSc. Financial Management, Banking and Finance, andInvestment and Finance in the fields of CSR, Merger&Acquisition, IslamicBaking, corporate governance, and so forth. He has also supervised three PhD students to completion, serving as thedirector of study and a second supervisor.

Selected Publications:

Liu, L., Shahrour, M.H., Wojewodzki, M. and Rohani, A., 2025. Decoding energy market turbulence: A TVP-VAR connectedness analysis of climate policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk shocks. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 210, p.123863. 

Shahrour, M.H., Rohani, A., Wojewodzki, M. and Tran, D.V., 2024. Carbon Performance and Financial Performance: How R&D Makes a Difference Pre‐and Post‐Paris Accord. International Journal of Finance & Economics.

Lodh, S., Deshmukh, N. and Rohani, A., 2024. Stemming the tide: Does Climate Risk Affect M&A Performance?. Business Strategy and the Environment, 33(2), pp.858-881. 

Rohani, A. and Jabbour, M., 2024. Carbon Media Legitimacy in UK Companies: Actions or Words?. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 25(2), pp.298-324. 

Rohani, A., Jabbour, M. and Aliyu, S., 2023. Corporate Incentives for Obtaining Higher Level of Carbon Assurance: Seeking Legitimacy or Improving Performance?. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 24(4), pp.701-725.  

Rohani, A., Jabbour, M., & Abdel-Kader, M. (2021). Carbon Performance, Carbon Disclosure, and Economic Performance: The Mediating Role of Carbon Legitimacy in the UK.  International Journal of Accounting and Economics Studies.9(1), 8-20.

Research Grants:

‘Scoping Study for Survey of Early-stage Entrepreneurs.’ Funder: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. Investigators: Owen, R., Lodh, S., Rohani, A. Value: £10,000. Outcome: Funded. 

‘SME Financing for Biodiversity: Building Nature Measurement and Impacts into SME Financing (‘SME FinBio’) - with Agri-Food Sector Case Study Example’. Funder:Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Investigators: Owen, R., Lyon, F.,  Lodh, S., Rohani, A., Viavatenne, C., Vickers, I., Ropiquet, A. Value: 99,905.75. Outcome: Funded. 

‘Carbon Accounting and Merger & Acquisition’. Funder: Middlesex University Business School. Principal Investigators: Rohani, A., Lodh, S., and Deshmukh, N. Value: £4,000. Outcome: Funded.

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