Perin Joseph

Lecturer in Finance

Professional Biography

Perin Joseph is currently a Lecturer in Finance at Regent’s University London, where he has worked since 2009. He has extensive experience in teaching a range of modules in Finance, Economics and Business Statistics for both home and international students up to postgraduate level in UK higher education. 

Perin has proven excellence in teaching, team leadership and management, and he has designed, prepared, developed and led modules as well as teaching materials. 

Perin has provided instruction, training, and mentorship to lecturers who are lacking equivalent subject expertise and experience with a keen focus on fostering individuals’ professional growth. His research interests fall under the general theme of market volatility dynamics.

Qualifications

• MSc Financial Economics, BI Norwegian Business School (Accredited by AACSB, EQUIS, and
AMBA), Norway

• Master of Qualifying Examination in Economics, First-in-MA (Econ), Department of Economics &
Statistics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

• BA (Hons) Economics, Department of Economics & Statistics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Relevant Past Employment

• Visiting Lecturer in Quantitative Methods, London Metropolitan University, UK

• Graduate Tutor in Economics, Trinity College (Independent, private), Sri Lanka

• Research Assistant, to Professor Dias Hewagama on a World Bank-funded project through
Government of Sri Lanka, Department of Economics & Statistics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Research Interests

Market volatility dynamics using ARCH-type models (Time Series- Financial Econometrics).

Research Supervision

Supervised 60+ undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.

Professional Affiliation(s)/Accreditation

  • MCSI, The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, UK, 2013 – Present
  • FHEA, The Higher Education Academy, UK, 2013 – Present

Teaching & Course Development

Modules led and taught

Managerial Finance (L6, led and taught) - 2025
• Analytical Tools for Business and Finance with Excel (L4, led and team-taught)
• Markets and Legal Frameworks (L4, team-taught)
• Multinational Financial Management (L6, led and taught)
• Financial Quantitative Analysis (L5, led and taught)
• Introduction to Financial Markets (L5, team-taught)
• Financial Management (L5, led and team-taught)
• International Finance (L6, team-taught)
• Business Finance (L5, led and team-taught)
• Corporate Finance (L6, led and team-taught)
• Collecting and Using Business Data (L5, led and taught)
• Understanding Business Data (L4, led and team-taught)
• Global Finance and Risk (an MBA-style L7, led and taught)
• Quantitative Business Analysis with Excel (L4, led and team-taught)

Course Development

• Developed L6 Finance and L4 Quants modules for new curriculum in 2023-24 for validation
• Designed and developed Global Finance and Risk for MA Finance, an MBA-style programme
• Designed and developed Quantitative Business Analysis, and prepared a custom text with
McGraw-Hill
• Designed and developed a new L6 Corporate Finance module with advice from Professor
Aswath Damodaran, Stern School of Business, New York University
• Designed and developed a L5 Quants module for BSc Accounting & Finance as a member of
the programme development team, with 9/14 exemptions for ACCA exams