Sumon Bhaumik received his undergraduate education at Presidency College, Calcutta, and got his masters and doctoral degrees in Economics from the University of Southern California. Since then, he has worked both within and outside of academics in Bulgaria, Germany, India and the United Kingdom. He joined the University of Sheffield in 2014, and holds a Chair in Finance. He is also a Research Fellow of IZA – Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn and a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization. Earlier, he was also a Research Fellow of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
He is also a member of the peer-review college of ESRC, including for the GCRF Peer Review Group, and an expert at large for the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of the European Commission. Further, he is an associate editor of Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, a senior editor for International Journal of Emerging Markets, and a member of the Editorial Review Board of Journal of World Business. Until recently, he was a member of the editorial board of Economic Systems.
His research interests are wide ranging, and include corporate governance and firm performance, banks and credit markets, and impact of economic (including financial sector) reforms. He has published widely, including in high profile journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Comparative Economics. In the past decade, he has also worked on a number of projects funded by British Academy, DfID, ESRC, NESTA, UKIERI and UKTI.