Prof. (Dr.) Cesario Mateus

Prof. Cesario Mateus is an internationally recognized finance scholar, researcher, academic leader, and educator with more than three decades of experience in higher education, research, financial consulting, and academic administration. He currently serves as Full Professor of Finance at Aalborg University Business School, Denmark, where he is also the Founder and Director of the MSMEs and Family Businesses Research Lab and Founder and Director of the Finance, Economics and Banking Research Network (FEB-RN). His expertise encompasses corporate finance, investments, portfolio management, financial markets, banking, fintech, SME finance, capital structure, valuation, asset management, and risk management. Prof. Mateus has built an outstanding international academic reputation through extensive research contributions, editorial leadership, doctoral supervision, and global academic collaborations. He has published extensively in leading ABS, ABDC, Scopus, SSCI, and Web of Science indexed journals, accumulated more than 1,800 Google Scholar citations, over 580 Scopus citations, and supervised hundreds of postgraduate and doctoral students worldwide. His work has significantly contributed to contemporary understanding of mutual fund performance, banking regulation, corporate governance, financial markets, SME financing, and investment management.