Adina Yelekenova

PhD student

Profile

Personal Website: adinayelekenova.com

Adina Yelekenova is a PhD Candidate in Finance at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS). Her main areas of interest include institutional investors, ESG investing, ETFs, hedge funds, mutual funds. Her PhD research is supervised by Dr. George Wang and Dr. Chelsea Yao.

At LUMS, Adina holds a teaching assistant position for the modules AcF701 "Empirical Asset Pricing: Advanced Topics in Mutual Funds and Investment Strategies" and AcF602 "Advanced Investment Management". She was awarded a Teaching Excellence Certificate in 2020 and 2021. She is also assisting in supervision of MSc Finance students theses in topics related to mutual funds, hedge funds, and fund flows.

Adina holds a Bachelor in Economics degree from Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, and a Master of Science degree in Finance and Business Economics with Distinction from University of Manchester.

Before joining PhD program at Lancaster, Adina has been working as a teaching assistant at Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business (NUGSB) in Astana, Kazakhstan. Her job responsibilities included conducting seminars and tutorials for MBA and Executive MBA students, assisting in thesis supervision for MSc Finance students, and providing SAS workshops. As part of the NUGSB collaboration program, she was assisting the "Raising Capital" module at the Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, working with Prof. David Robinson and Dr. Manuel Adelino.

Monash Business School Seminar
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

FMA Annual Meeting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

12th Portuguese Financial Network Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

EFMA Annual Meeting 2023
Participation in conference - Academic

Financial Management & Accounting Research Conference 2023
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Behavioural Finance Working Group 16th Annual Conference
Participation in conference - Academic

Joint LUMS-WHU-TSM PhD Workshop
Participation in conference - Academic

BAFA Annual Conference 2023
Participation in conference - Academic

AFA Travel Grant 2023
Other

EFA Travel Grant 2022
Other

EFMA 2022 Annual Meeting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Alliance Manchester Business School PhD Finance Seminar Series
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

British Academy of Management (BAM) Doctoral Symposium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

7th International Young Finance Scholar's Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

28th Finance Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Alliance Manchester Business School Doctoral Fortnight 2021
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Teaching Excellence Certificate
Prize (including medals and awards)