Professor Barbara Casu is the Director of the Centre for Banking Research at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London, where she is Professor of Banking and Finance and Deputy Dean (faculty and research). Her main research interests are in empirical banking, although several of Barbara’s research project are cross-disciplinary and include aspects of financial regulation, structured finance, and corporate governance. Barbara has published widely, with over 50 publications in peer reviewed Journals. She has also written the popular textbook “Introduction to Banking” (Pearson FT), which is widely adopted for banking courses across the world. Outside academia, Professor Casu has been a consultant/visiting researcher at several organizations, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF); the European Commission (EC); the South African Reserve Bank (SARB); the Building Societies Association (BSA).