Dr Akram Beniamin

Akram Beniamin is a Lecturer in International Business. His research interests include international business history, commodity chains, and financial and banking history. He holds a PhD in International Business & Strategy from Henley Business School. Akram's PhD dissertation on cotton commodity networks, foreign banking, and business networks of interlocking directorates in Egypt during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was awarded the Association of Business Historians' Coleman Prize.

From 2023 to 2026, Akram was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford on the ERC-funded project 'Global Correspondent Banking, 1870-2000'. His research examined how correspondent banking relationships were affected by cross-border banking crises.

Akram has supervised undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in international business at Birmingham University Business School and Amsterdam Business School. Outside academia, Akram is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He worked in the banking industry for more than twelve years, spanning corporate banking, credit risk and enterprise risk management.