Nirosha Wellalage is an Associate Professor Finance/Business Analytics in University of South Australia. Her main research centres on issues related to corporate finance practices. Her main research goal as a researcher is to explore the ways marginalised firms financing their firms and find ways to sustainable in long run while contributing the economic development. Niro is in the top 8 percent of female economists (based on the last 10 years' publications) in the world, according to RePEc (2023). Additionally 6th, place author in Asia Pacific Region in the topic related to "Firm; Bribes: Anti-corruption Measures" according to the Elsevier SciVal.