Sumon Bhaumik received his undergraduate education at Presidency College, Calcutta, and got his masters and doctoral degrees in Economics from the University of Southern California. Later, he worked both within and outside of academics in Bulgaria, Germany, India and the United Kingdom. Currently, he is an Emeritus Professor at the Management School at the University of Sheffield, and represents the university on the Trade and Sustainable Development Domestic Advisory Group that has been set up by UK’s Department of Business and Trade. Until recently, he had a Chair in Finance at the university.

He is also members of the peer-review and assessor colleges of ESRC, has served as an expert assessor for the Horizon Europe funding window, and has also served on Sub-panel 17 (Business & Management Studies) of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021. He has served (or continues to serve) on the editorial (or editorial review) boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of World Business, and the British Journal of Management.

His research interests are wide ranging, and include corporate governance and firm performance, banks and credit markets, multinational enterprises, and impact of economic reforms. In the past decade, he has worked on a number of projects funded by ESRC, DfID, NESTA, UKTI and UKIERI. His research has appeared in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Comparative Economics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2005.