Thu Phuong Pham is an Associate Professor of Finance at Curtin University, Australia. She has held visiting faculty positions at New York University’s Stern School of Business and Indiana University Bloomington in the United States, and is an affiliated researcher at IPAG Business School in France. Prior to joining Curtin in 2022, she held academic appointments at the University of Adelaide, the University of Sydney, and the University of Tasmania in Australia.

She has served on the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) Reference Groups for four Sustainable Development Goals covering gender equality, clean energy, economic growth, and global partnerships.

Phuong has provided policy consultations to government agencies and international organisations on various projects. She has secured millions of dollars in externally competitive research, consulting, and teaching grants, both as a Sole Investigator and as a Chief or Co-Chief Investigator. In these roles, she has led projects funded by the World Bank, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ - the German Federal Agency for International Cooperation), the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development, the Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, among others.

Phuong’s research interests include market microstructure, climate finance, corporate governance, decentralized finance, and applied economics. She is the recipient of the 2025 Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Award for Innovation and Excellence in Research for the established researcher category, recognising her research that advances understanding of climate-responsive finance and develops evidence-based solutions to support inclusive and sustainable growth. Her research has received Best Paper Awards at the Auckland Finance Meeting 2016 and semi-finalist recognition for the Best Paper Awards at the Financial Management Association Annual Meetings in 2023, 2019, and 2016. She is the recipient of the University of Adelaide's Women Research Excellence Award 2019 for research impact and quality. 

Her research has been published in leading international ABDC A*/A-ranked journals, including Journal of Financial Markets, Energy Economics, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Journal of Empirical Finance, among others. Eight of her publications were the only academic research featured in UNESCAP’s 2025 SDG Goal Profiles (SDGs 8 & 17), shaping Priority Actions for 53 Asia–Pacific countries.

Phuong has served as a Subject Editor for the Journal of Multinational Financial Management, as a Guest Editor for the Global Finance Journal, Special Issue “Financial Market Design for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth,” and as a member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Financial Studies. She served on the Research Grant Selection Committee of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), an appointed panel that independently reviews and ranks research proposals submitted by academic staff across AFAANZ institutional member universities. 

She is the co-founder and co-chair of the annual international conference, the Vietnam Symposium in Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Innovation (VSEFI), which launched in 2022. Details about the latest edition are available at https://vsefi2026.sciencesconf.org/. 

Phuong holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Sydney, Australia, and a Master of Science (DEA) in Financial Markets and Intermediaries from the Toulouse School of Economics, France.

SELECTED AWARDS:

• Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Award for Innovation and Excellence in Research
  • Established researcher category, 2025
• Elsevier Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing Award, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 2023

• Semi-finalist, Best Paper Awards in Market Microstructure, 2023 FMA Annual Meeting, US

• Women's Research Excellence Award, University of Adelaide 2019.

• Semi-finalist, Best Paper Awards in Market Microstructure, 2019 FMA Annual Meeting, US

• Elsevier Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2017, Emerging Markets Review 

• SIRCA Best Paper Award, 2016 Auckland Finance Meeting, New Zealand

• Semi-finalist, Best Paper Award in Market Microstructure; Top ten session in the 2016 FMA Annual Meeting, US

• University of Tasmania Teaching Merit Certificates (2015)

• Career Development Scholarships for the UTAS Academic Staff (2013)

• University of Sydney Dean’s Citation for Tutoring (2009, 2010)

• University of Sydney International Research Scholarship for PhD study (2008 – 2011)

• Royal Economic Society Scholarship, UK (2010)

• Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney (2007)

• Eiffel Excellence Scholarship, France (2002-2003)

• NEU Vice-Chancellor’s Certificate of Merit (2000)