Lalith Samarakoon is a professor of finance. He also holds professional credentials as a chartered accountant and a certified financial analyst. Samarakoon teaches Contemporary Global Finance Issues, Global Financial Services (China course), International Finance and Financial Management. His primary area of research is international finance, with particular focus on emerging and frontier markets. He has published numerous scholarly articles dealing with issues such as market liberalization and return volatility, investment behavior of investor classes, return predictability, relation between returns and inflation, interest rates and dividends, tests of asset pricing models, mean reversion in stock prices, ownership structure, capital structure, initial public offerings, and stock market interdependence, contagion, and the U.S. financial crisis. He also published four texts relating to stock and bond markets.