About Me

Sania Wadud is a Senior Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School in the University of Leeds. She previously held a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) position in Economics at the University of Essex (UK), and earlier served as Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at BRAC University (Bangladesh). She completed a PhD in Economics through a joint programme conferred by the University of Aberdeen (UK) and Curtin University (Australia), and holds an MSc. in Financial Forecasting and Investment from the University of Glasgow (UK).

She is an applied economist specialising in climate and energy economics, macro-finance, and financial and commodity markets, with particular expertise in applied and climate econometrics. Her research focuses on market efficiency, information dynamics, and systemic risk under climate transition and climate-physical shocks. Her research is published in outlets including the Journal of Environmental Management and the International Review of Financial Analysis, with a wider pipeline spanning oil market efficiency and turbulence, equity–commodity connectedness, green bond pricing, and long-horizon dynamics in macro-financial and energy series. Alongside peer-reviewed work, she contributes to policy-facing outputs and collaborative programmes, including projects linked to the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment and the New Capital Consensus initiative.

Beyond academia, Sania worked in the financial sector, including roles at Barclays (UK) and Lloyds Banking Group (UK), experience that informs her applied approach to empirical research and stakeholder engagement.