Dr John Sebastian Pereira
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Accounting, Finance and Informatics
- Kingston Business School
- Kingston Hill
Associate Professor, Course Director for BBA, University Liaison Officer for NMIMS-CIS (India)
- Email:
- j.pereira@kingston.ac.uk
About
I joined Kingston Business School in 2015 and lecture on a range of Accounting and Finance modules on the postgraduate programmes and specialize in delivering workshops and seminars aimed at leveraging the power of Bloomberg software for advanced financial analysis. I am the Course Director for Bachelor's in Business Administration (BBA) programme, and Liaison Officer for our collaborative partner institutions: NMIMS-CIS (India). I am also an Associate member of the Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA, CGMA).
My principal research interests are in the areas of credit risk modelling, corporate reporting, voluntary disclosure practices including ESG.
I am an experienced External Examiner and have contributed as panel member for Accounting & Finance course validations, revalidations, and ISRs.
Qualifications
- 2020: ACMA, CGMA
- 2020: Senior Fellow in Higher Education, HEA
- 2017: PRINCE2® Foundation Certificate in Project Management
- 2011 - 2015: PhD Accounting and Finance, Kingston University
- 2012 - 2013: Associate Fellow in Higher Education, HEA
- 2011 - 2012: MSc Management and Business Research, Kingston University
- 2009 - 2010: MSc Banking and Finance, Kingston University
- 2007 - 2009: PGDBA Business Administration, NMIMS University
Domains
- Measuring and modelling corporate credit risk dynamics using credit default swap instruments.
- Islamic banking and conventional banking: differences and similarities.
- The effect of supervisory enforcement actions in the banking sector.
- Corporate reporting and disclosure practices in financial and non-financial institutions.
- The drivers and consequences of ESG
Publications
What comes first? The chicken-egg relationship between integrated thinking and reporting
Malafronte, Irma and Pereira, John, 2025, Journal of Management and Governance
Integrated thinking : measuring the unobservable
Malafronte, Irma and Pereira, John, 2021, Meditari Accountancy Research (29), 4, pp 805-822
Corporate culture as a driver of integrated reporting
Malafronte, Irma, Pereira, John and Busco, Cristiano, 2021, FM : Financial Management
Enforcement actions, market movement and depositors' reaction : evidence from the US banking system
Pereira, John, Malafronte, Irma, Sorwar, Ghulam and Nurullah, Mohamed, 2019, Journal of Financial Services Research (55), 2-3, pp 143-165
The determinants of companies' levels of integration : does one size fit all?
Busco, Cristiano, Malafronte, Irma, Pereira, John and Starita, Maria Grazia, 2019, The British Accounting Review (51), 3, pp 277-298
What drives corporate CDS spreads? A comparison across US, UK and EU firms
Pereira, John, Sorwar, Ghulam and Nurullah, Mohamed, 2018, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (56), pp 188-200
The effectiveness of risk disclosure practices in the European insurance industry
Malafronte, Irma, Starita, Maria Grazia and Pereira, John, 2018, Review of Accounting and Finance (17), 1, pp 130-147
To debt or not to debt : are Islamic banks less risky than conventional banks?
Sorwar, Ghulam, Pappas, Vasileios, Pereira, John and Nurullah, Mohamed, 2016, (132), Suppl, pp 113-126
ESG performance and impact measurement in the banking industry
Malafronte, Irma and Pereira, John Sebastian (2023). In: Busco, Cristiano, (eds.), Consolandi, Costanza, (eds.), Malafronte, Irma, (eds.), Sammarco, Fabrizio, (eds.) and Scognamiglio, Elisabetta, (eds.), The Impact of Organizations Measurement, Management and Corporate Reporting. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 157-174
Enterprise risk management in the United Kingdom
Malafronte, Irma and Pereira, John (2021). In: Maffei, Marco, (ed.), Enterprise risk management in Europe. Bingley, U.K.: Emerald Publishing Limited, pp 243-259
ESG reporting as a driver of value creation. A case study of ABN AMRO
Malafronte, Irma, Pereira, John Sebastian and Busco, Cristiano (2024). (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA))
The role of corporate culture in the choice of integrated reporting
Malafronte, Irma, Pereira, John and Busco, Cristiano (2020). (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA))
View from reviews : mining service quality from UK retail banks customer’s eWOM
Dodwani, Bijal, Chawdhary, Rahul, Pereira, John Sebastian and Nurullah, Mohamed(2024). In: AM2024 Conference, 01-02 July 2024 :Cardiff, U.K.
The effect of carbon performance on firm credit risk
Esmaeili, Bahareh, Pereira, John Sebastian, Malafront, Irma and Nurullah, Mohamed(2024). In: The 13th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society, 20-22 June 2024 :Paris, France
The role of climate governance in moderating the relationship between carbon performance and equity risk
Pereira, John, Rakeeb, Fathima and Malafronte, Irma(2023). 26-28 Jul 2023 : Valencia, Spain
What comes first? The chicken-egg debate on integrated thinking and reporting
Pereira, John and Malafronte, Irma(2021). In: Virtual Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association (EAA), 26 - 28 May 2021 :Held online
The relationship between the tone of earnings calls, ESG performance, and market reaction during the Covid-19 pandemic
Malafronte, Irma, Pereira, John and Busco, Cristiano(2021). In: British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Annual Conference 2021, 12 -13 Apr 2021 :Held online
The use of interactive polling to foster peer learning
Pereira, John and Boatswain, Marvyn(2019). In: Festival of Learning Bitesize, 31 Oct 2019 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
Integrated reporting and thinking: an empirical analysis of STOXX Europe 600 firms
Malafronte, Irma, Pereira, John, Starita, Maria Grazie and Busco, Cristiano(2016). 17-18 Nov 2016 : Rome, Italy
Enforcement actions, market movement and depositors’ reaction: evidence from the US banking system
Malafronte, Irma, Nurullah, Mohamed, Pereira, John and Sorwar, Ghulam(2016). In: 6th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society: Banking, Finance and Institutions: Stability and Risk, 10-12 Jun 2016 :Malaga, Spain
Effect of policy announcements on US and UK corporate CDS returns during the financial crisis
Pereira, John, Nurullah, Mohamed and Sorwar, Ghulam(2015). In: Behavioural Finance Working Group Conference: Financial Regulation, 11-12 Jun 2015 :London, U.K.
What drives corporate CDS spreads? A comparison across US, UK and Eurozone markets
Pereira, John, Nurullah, Mohamed and Sorwar, Ghulam(2014). In: European Financial Management Association (EFMA) 23rd Annual Meeting, 25-28 Jun 2014 :Rome, Italy
An empirical investigation of corporate credit default swap spreads and returns
Pereira, John (2015), PhD thesis, Kingston University