Huyen Nguyen is a Senior Lecturer in Finance in the department of Accounting and Financial Management at King’s Business School. Her research focuses on sustainable finance, the real effects of banking laws and regulations, housing markets, and financial economics.

She provides evidence that helps policymakers and banking supervisors understand how legal and regulatory frameworks shape bank lending, credit allocation, and banks’ participation in the green transition. Her work has been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and the Journal of Financial Intermediation. Together with her colleagues, she has secured funding from the Leverhulme Trust as well as a research grant from GIZ (German International Cooperation).

She frequently attends major international conferences and actively engages in policy-focused discussions with central banks, including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and the Deutsche Bundesbank. Watch her talk at the European Central Bank on climate stress tests and macroprudential policy leakage.

Prior to joining King’s College London, she was an Assistant Professor at the Halle Institute for Economic Research and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany, and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. She obtained her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2019. She has also served as a PhD intern and visiting scholar at the Prudential Policy Directorate of the Bank of England, the Directorate of Banking Supervision at the Deutsche Bundesbank, and the Global Financial Stability Division of the IMF. Before entering academia, she spent several years working as a Market Risk Manager at a commercial bank in Asia.

Dr Nguyen is currently accepting new PhD students.