Board of Advisors
IAAER Past President

Professor Sidney J. Gray
Professor of International Business
University of Sydney Business School
University of Sydney
Sydney 2006 Australia
Tel: 61-(0)2-9351-3552
Fax: 61-(0)2-9036 5378
Email: sid.gray@sydney.edu.au

Sid Gray is Professor of International Business and Co-Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research group at the University of Sydney. He served as Head of the Business School at Sydney University from 2003-2006.   Prior to joining Sydney University in 2003 he was Associate Dean (Postgraduate) and the Foundation Professor of International Business at the University of New South Wales (1997-2003). He was also formerly Professor of International Business at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (1993-97) in England; and Professor of Accounting and Finance at the University of Glasgow (1979-92) in Scotland. Sid has a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Sydney and a PhD from the University of Lancaster.  He is a member of CPA Australia and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the UK.

Sid is the author/co-author of more than 200 publications including many articles on international accounting and international business issues in leading international journals such as Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of International Business Studies, Abacus, Accounting and Business Research, European Accounting Review, The International Journal of Accounting, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, Management International Review, and the International Journal of Human Resource Management. His books include International Accounting and Multinational Enterprises (John Wiley, USA), co-authored with Lee Radebaugh, Financial Accounting. A Global Approach (Houghton Mifflin, USA), co-authored with Belverd Needles and International Business. Asia-Pacific Edition (McGraw-Hill, Australia), co-authored with Peter Dowling, Peter Liesch and Charles Hill.

Sid’s research standing has been affirmed by his appointment to the Editorial Boards of many leading international refereed research journals including Abacus (Australia), Journal of International Business Studies (USA) and Management International Review (Germany). He is also co-founder and currently Associate Editor of the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting (USA).  He was formerly President of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) (1992-97) and is currently Chair of the IAAER Board of Advisers. In 2006, he received the IAAER Founder’s Award for Distinguished Service. Sid’s research contributions have been recognised most importantly by his election in 2006 as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and in 2009 as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.