Habeeb Yahya is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Turku School of Economics of the University of Turku, having defended his doctoral thesis in spring 2024

Habeeb is also skilled in UI/UX and flutter programming language for mobile App development. Habeeb enjoys playing table tennis, tennis and football. Nowadays, He spends his free time with his family.  

Habeeb is interested in Corporate Finance topics and currently focusing on sustainable Finance. As a Nigerian-Finnish, he's enthusiastic about research on emerging markets structure, performance, and evaluation. Particularly, he's working on a paper with a doctoral fellow from the Hanken School of Economics on Job creation, Private Equity, Venture capital, and entrepreneurship in Africa.

Presently, Habeeb is working on research papers aimed at understanding firms' sustainability performance, ownership type, and the effect on firm value, and profitability in the Nordics between 2010 and 2020. The first paper in the dissertation focusing on 'ESG and firm performance: Analysis on Nordic Countries' is published in the Nordic Journal of Business. He has published papers in peer-reviewed Journals including the Global Finance Journal. 

Habeeb’s research has attracted research funding from well-known contemporary foundations. Previously, Habeeb has been involved in academic and industry positions and gained invaluable theoretical and practical experience which added further value and broadened his horizons to contribute meaningfully to academia and society.

Teacher - Derivative Markets and Instruments- A fourth-year Master’s level course  

Co-teacher on Finance, Sustainability, and Ethics course in Turku School of Economics- A 3rd year Bachelor's degree course 

Exercise instructor Asset Pricing and Portfolio Management course in Turku School of Economics- A fourth-year Master’s level course 

Bachelor thesis seminar- Accounting and Finance