Dr Ghasan Baghdadi is a Lecturer in Finance at La Trobe Business School. He Joined LBS in July 2022. Prior joining La Trobe University, Ghasan was an Assistant Professor at Arab Open University - Faculty of Business Studies. In 2020, Dr Baghdadi joined RMIT as a Lecturer in Finance where he taught and co-ordinated Financial Markets. Before that, Ghasan taught several finance courses, including Financial Management, Investment Securities, Derivative Securities, and Statistics for Business and Finance at La Trobe University.

Ghasan' s research interest is in the areas of empirical corporate finance, corporate governance, and financial accounting. He is an active researcher, and his research papers have been published in leading, peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, British Accounting Review, and Critical Finance Review. His research has also received coverage in internationally recognized media outlets, such as Bloomberg Money Stuff and Money Management. Dr Baghdadi is the recipient of La Trobe Business School Research Excellence Award in 2023. Recently, the 2025 AFAANZ Research Grant Selection Committee has awarded funding of $5,500 for Dr Baghdadi project titled “Customer Satisfaction and Corporate Innovation”.