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Dr Zezeng Li

Zezeng

Lecturer in Accounting

Email: zezeng.li@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Roles: 

Biography:

Dr Zezeng Li is a Lecturer in Accounting and joined the School of Business and Management in 2021. Zezeng earned a PhD in Accounting from University of Exeter, an MSc in Accounting Accountability and Financial Management in King’s College London, and a Bacholar’s degree in International Accounting at China. During his PhD studies, he worked as a teaching assistant for various modules in Accounting and Finance. Zezeng’s current research activity involves investigation of pension de-risking strategies and their impact on the companies and pension fund.

Google Scholar page:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=TWvA3E0AAAAJ 

 

Teaching

Undergraduate:

BUS224: International Corporate Reporting 

BUS021: Financial Accounting 

Postgraduate:

MSc dissertation supervision 

Zezeng is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

Research

Research Interests:

  • Financial Accounting
  • Pension Accounting
  • Corporate governance of pension fund

Zezeng’s current research broadly looks into pension accounting, corporate finance perspective of pension fund, corporate governance. In particular, his research interest focus on what is the effect of pension de-riskings strategies on firm risk and pension risk. He has investigated the relationship between corporate governance of sponsoring firm and pension de-risking strategies. In addition to the research on firm with defined benefit pension fund, he has joint project on environmental, social and governance on pension investments and business ethics.

Centre and Group Membership:

Member of Accounting & Accountability Research Group (AARG)

Member of Behavioural Finance Working Group (BFWG)

Publications 

  • Li, Z., & Cowton, C. J. (2023). Defined benefit pension de-risking strategy: determinants of pension buy-ins. In Accounting Forum (Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 123-145). Routledge.
  • https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2021.2024011
  • Li, Z., & Kara, A. (2022). Pension de-risking choice and firm risk: Traditional versus innovative strategies. International Review of Financial Analysis, 81, 102064.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102064
  • Zheng, C., Li, Z. and Wu, J. (2022), Tourism Firms’ Vulnerability to Risk: The Role of Organizational Slack in Performance and Failure. Journal of Travel Research, 1-47. (Accepted/In press)
  • Li, Z. and Al‐Najjar, B. (2022), Impact of Board Composition on Pension De‐risking Strategies. British Journal Management. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12501
  • Kilincarslan, E., Elmagrhi, M.H. and Li, Z. (2020), Impact of governance structures on environmental disclosures in the Middle East and Africa, Corporate Governance, Vol. 20 No. 4, pp. 739-763. https://doi.org/10.1108/CG-08-2019-0250

Note: For more recent publication, please refer to my google scholar page. 

Supervision

Areas of Supervision Expertise: 

Dr Li welcomes prospective PhD students who are interested in an area of capital market based accounting and corporate governance of pension fund. 

Current Doctoral Students

Co-supervisor

Hussein Ahmad Mousa Bataineh, 'The Impact of the Chief Sustainability Officer on Pension Asset Allocation’

Public Engagement

  • I was granted an impact fellowship by School of Business and Management to create an impact case study. At present, I am engaged in a project collaborating with the UK Pension Regulator, aiming to enhance diversity on the UK pension trustees board. 
  • I am one of the Pathway lead on Work, Organisation and Business Management on London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
  • I am a member of European Accounting Association, British Accounting and Finance Association
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