Shahzad Uddin

Shahzad Uddin FAcSS is a Bangladeshi-British academic in the field of accounting. He is Professor of Accounting and Director of the Centre for Accountability and Global Development at the University of Essex.

Academic career Uddin began his academic career as a lecturer at the Islamic University, Bangladesh from 1992 to 1993 and later served as an assistant professor at Independent University, Bangladesh between 1997 and 1998.

In 1998, he moved to the United Kingdom to join Queen’s University Belfast as a lecturer, a position he held until 2002. In 2004, he founded the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Special Interest Group on Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies. He went on to establish the Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies in 2010. Since 2022, he has served as Director of the Centre for Accountability and Global Development at the University of Essex.

Honors and awards Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (2024) Distinguished Academic Award, British Accounting and Finance Association (2022) James G Scoville Best International/Comparative Industrial Relations Paper Award, Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) (2023) SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence 2023, British Sociological Association

Selected books Uddin, S. (ed.) (2012). Handbook of Accounting and Development. Edward Elgar Publishing. . Uddin, S. & Tsamenyi, M. (eds.) (2010). Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies. Emerald Group Publishing. . Uddin, S. (ed.) (2009). Accounting in Emerging Economies. Emerald Group Publishing. . Uddin, S. (ed.) (2008). Corporate Governance in Less Developed and Emerging Economies. Emerald Group Publishing. .