Tim Gocher OBE

Contact

• workMalaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• tim.gocher@nottingham.edu.my

Biography

Tim Gocher is Hon. Professor of Sustainable Business in the Business School at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. His focus areas include impact investment, corruption and IP commercialisation. He is also a guest lecturer at London Business School, and has been published in London Business School Review and The Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance among other journals (see Publications tab).

Tim is the founder and CEO of Dolma Fund Management - the first international private equity fund manager for Nepal. Its fund investments have generated over 10,000 jobs in Nepal across renewable energy, healthcare, and technology industries. In the 2022/23 fiscal year, Dolma's funds were the largest FDI investor in Nepal.

Tim is also Chairman of Dolma Foundation, a British non-profit organisation he founded in 2003 that provides full scholarships for marginalised children in Nepal.

Tim's background is in private equity, energy and technology. After nine years at Deloitte and J.P. Morgan, and an MBA from London Business School, Tim became Managing Director at listed investment bank Interregnum (ParkMead) plc. Tim was awarded the OBE in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to British investment and economic development in Nepal.

Tim is married to Pooja Gurung and has three children: Daniel, Benjamin and Elizabeth.

Teaching Summary

Tim lectures at Nottingham University Business School Malaysia Campus in the areas of sustainable/climate finance and impact investment. He also lectures at London Business School on infrastructure… read more

Research Summary

His main research interests are in the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on levels of corruption and poverty in Least Developed Countries. He also has an interest in university Intellectual… read more

Selected Publications

• TIM GOCHER, 2017. Can investing in frontier markets tackle corruption?: Tim Gocher on how foreign investors can create big returns while addressing an age-old problem London Business School Review.
• GOCHER, TIM, How to succeed in frontier markets while avoiding corruption London Business School Review. 29(2), 48-49
• TIM GOCHER and CURTIS S. CHIN, 2015. A Better Way to Rebuild Nepal: The postdisaster reconstruction can help end, not fuel, aid dependency Wall Street Journal.
• TIM GOCHER, 2017. High altitude returns: Public money is being used to derisk institutional capital to deliver superior, risk-adjusted returns while tackling the Himalayan glacial melt crisis, explains Tim Gocher Environmental Finance.

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Tim lectures at Nottingham University Business School Malaysia Campus in the areas of sustainable/climate finance and impact investment. He also lectures at London Business School on infrastructure climate finance and entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets.

Current Research

His main research interests are in the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on levels of corruption and poverty in Least Developed Countries. He also has an interest in university Intellectual Property (IP) commercialisation and how that contributes to national competitiveness.

Past Research

• Corruption in least developed countries and ESG (responsible) investment: Standard Chartered Bank in Nepal, Tim Gocher, Wen Li Chan, Jayalakshmy Ramachandran, Angelina Seow Voon Yee, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, ISSN: 1358-1988, 2024

• Can investing in frontier markets tackle corruption?: Tim Gocher on how foreign investors can create big returns while addressing an age-old problem, London Business School Review, TIM GOCHER 2017

• High altitude returns: Public money is being used to derisk institutional capital to deliver superior, risk-adjusted returns while tackling the Himalayan glacial melt crisis, explains Tim Gocher, Environmental Finance, TIM GOCHER 2017

• A Better Way to Rebuild Nepal: The postdisaster reconstruction can help end, not fuel, aid dependency, Wall Street Journal, TIM GOCHER and CURTIS S. CHIN 2015

• How to succeed in frontier markets while avoiding corruption, London Business School Review. 29(2), 48-49, Tim Gocher

• 2018. Making an Impact - an interview with Tim Gocher: A team is bound by a long-term vision
• TIM GOCHER, 2017. Can investing in frontier markets tackle corruption?: Tim Gocher on how foreign investors can create big returns while addressing an age-old problem London Business School Review.
• TIM GOCHER, 2017. High altitude returns: Public money is being used to derisk institutional capital to deliver superior, risk-adjusted returns while tackling the Himalayan glacial melt crisis, explains Tim Gocher Environmental Finance.
• TIM GOCHER and CURTIS S. CHIN, 2015. A Better Way to Rebuild Nepal: The postdisaster reconstruction can help end, not fuel, aid dependency Wall Street Journal.
• GOCHER, TIM, How to succeed in frontier markets while avoiding corruption London Business School Review. 29(2), 48-49