Lecturer in Finance Education and Undergraduate Year 3 Head
Background
BS, MBA, MSC, MEd and PhD in Accounting and Finance
Kalsoom Jaffar is a Lecturer in Finance Education at the University of Edinburgh Business School. She holds a PhD in Accounting and Finance. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, she worked as an Associate Lecturer at GIC (the University of Glasgow), Glasgow Caledonian University, and as a Lecturer in Finance at Aston University. She has delivered teaching across a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive programmes.
She was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by the University of Edinburgh Business School for 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25, based on outstanding student feedback. She has also been nominated on numerous occasions for both the Teacher of the Year Award and the Supervisor of the Year Award. She has served as an external examiner for several UK universities. Her research focuses on corporate finance, investment, and pedagogical innovation.