Rustem Karimov is a rare hybrid of an accomplished industry professional and a dedicated academic, embodying the essence of a practitioner-scholar. With over a decade of high-level corporate finance experience, he has held key positions such as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), financial controller, and financial consultant in multinational firms and investment companies. His expertise spans financial restructuring, investment strategy, and corporate governance, with a proven track record of securing a $20 million USD investment for a Kazakhstani asset management firm.
Rustem Karimov joined SDU University (SDU) in Kazakhstan in 2024 as a Senior Lecturer at the Business School, where he teaches Corporate Finance, Fundamentals of Financial Management, and Macroeconomics. His research interests focus on macroeconomics, monetary policy, international finance, and financial behavior, impression management and accounting manipulations in financial reporting.

MSc Accounting, Finance and Management, 2018, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

ECO 208 - Macroeconomics (CIMA); FIN 212 - Finance; FIN 303 - Fundamentals of Financial Management; FIN 316 - Corporate Finance.

Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy, Inflation Exchange Rate Dynamics, and Economic Stability, International Corporate Finance, Global Financial Integration, Financial Behavior and Decision-Making, Impression Management in Financial Reporting

BOLASHAK Scholarship for the Master’s Program in Accounting and Financial Management (AFM), University of Bristol, UK (2017–2018)