Associate Professor

Bio

Heba Abou-El-Sood is an associate professor of Accounting and Finance at the College of Business. Prior to that, she was affiliated to Lancaster University Management school and Cairo University. She holds M.Phil. in Accounting with distinction from Cairo University, M.Sc. in Accounting and Finance from Boston College, and Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance from Lancaster University. She is a Fulbright Alumnus, a Newton Fellow, a GOLCER fellow, and a University of California-Berkeley fellow-catalyst for transparency in social sciences research.

She took part in the initiative of institutional capacity building for Cairo University Faculty of Commerce research staff and was actively involved in the international relations office. She was an active member of the Research and Innovation Panel at the Accounting Department of Cairo University and the international scholarship panel at Lancaster University. Recently, she has been promoting transparency in research for the purpose of reproducibility and efficient data management and incorporating that into postgraduate programs. Prior to joining ZU, she served as the director of the FCES program and CU-Georgia State University program.

Heba Abou-El-Sood has valuable teaching experience in Accounting, Finance, and Banking modules at undergraduate, postgraduate, and MBA levels coupled with professional experience in the field of auditing and consulting. She is a member of multiple professional associations and a reviewer for international journals. She has published papers in journals as International Review of Financial Analysis, International Journal of Managerial Finance, International Journal of Auditing, etc. and articles in various professional magazines.

Office

Abu Dhabi - Khalifa City, FF1.2.18

Phone:

+971 2 599 3895

Email:

Teaching Areas

Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting

Research and Professional Activities

Financial reporting, corporate governance, banking regulation, Islamic banking