Shabana Kamal

Climate change and financial stability

PhD candidate Shabana Kamal

Supervisors: Professor Ilan Noy and Associate Professor Eric Ulm

Profile

Shabana is a banker by profession and has more than twelve years of industry experience in banking and finance. She worked for different banks in Pakistan at managerial level. She also worked as a financial accountant at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.

In her Master's thesis, she explored two mode network structures of Pakistani banks and their investment by segments from 2007 to 2014. She presented the abstract of her research at the Sunbelt 2017 conference in Beijing, China. The conference was organised by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).

For her PhD, she is exploring the impact of droughts on farm debt and financial stability through farmers' bankruptcies. Specifically, when can the effect of droughts and future climate change create systemic risk to the stability of New Zealand’s financial system and to the national economy?

Shabana is a recipient of a PhD scholarship from the Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change at Victoria University of Wellington.

Qualifications

MS in Banking and Finance

Research interests

Climate change, economics of disasters, financial stability, inter-bank markets, systemic risk