I am a Professor of Energy and Environmental Accounting. I joined Edinburgh Business School (EBS) at Heriot Watt University in September 2022. I held the role of Head of Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance (AEF) until the end of August 2024. 

I previously held roles within the private sector as a senior external auditor and as a consultant; lecturing and senior lecturing at the University of Dundee (1991- 2005); Professor of Energy accounting at Glasgow Caledonian University (2005 - 2010); Professor of Energy and Environmental Accounting at Dundee Abertay University (2010 - 2022).

In the previous Universities, I held the leadership positions such as Director of Research; Head of University's Research Degrees Committee; Director of Doctoral School; Head of Department of Accountancy and Business Finance; and Deputy Head of Business School. 

I have published extensively in both academic and professional journals and in 2012 I received the Impact Research Award for my research on Corporate Social and Environmental Reporting. I have been invited as a keynote speaker to many international conferences and also presented my research at conferences all over the world and acted as honory advisor to the Oil and Gas Academy.

Through my research, I have developed close ties with universities in the UK, Sweden, the USA and Japan. I have also supervised many PhD and MSc students on the topics related to the above research areas.

• Energy Security: Sustainable Management of Natural Resources - British Council Research Grant (£44,200).
• North Sea Oil and Gas Project - ACCA (£3,780)
• Valuation of Assets and Liabilities - ICAS (£5,713)
• Strategic Human Resource Management - CIMA (£7,000)
• KTP project on Human Resource Valuation jointly funded by DTI (£82,953) and IES (£40,858)
• Human Resource Management and the Organisational Performance in the UK, Canada and Japan - CIMA (£9,900)

My research interests include:

• Renewable Energy Accounting and Finance
• Carbon Accounting
• Oil and Gas Accounting
• Social and Environmental Accounting
• Human Asset Valuation 
• Financial and Management Accounting

Keynote Speaker:

• Keynote presentation on 'Business Sustainability' at International Conference on Transforming Emerging Economics Through Sustainability and Innovations in Business', hosted by Institute of Management, Christ University, Bangalore, India, November 2016.
• Keynote presentation on 'Decommissining Costs - Beyond Technical Issues' at Working with Industries Workshop hosted by University of Abertay Dundee for Oil and Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC), June 2016.
• Keynote presentation on 'Economic Development and Environmental Protection & Accountability - Challenges for Governments and Organisations', at the International Forum on Poyang Lake Development at Nanchang University, China, June 2012.
• Invited by Nigerian Ministry of Petroleum to hold a workshop/seminar entitled 'Abandonment and Environmental Impacts - Calculated Costs or Suicidal Risk', Dubai, December 2012.