Board of Advisors
University of Sydney

Professor Sidney J. Gray
The University of Sydney
Associate Dean International
Faculty of Economics & Business
Sydney NSW 2006 Australia
Tel: 61-(0)2-9351-3552
Fax: 61-(0)2-9036 5378
Email: s.gray@econ.usyd.edu.au

Professor Sid Gray is Associate Dean International and Professor of International Business at the Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney, Australia. From 2003 to 2006 he was Head of the School of Business. Prior to joining Sydney University in July 2003 he was Associate Dean (Postgraduate) and the foundation Professor of International Business in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics at the University of New South Wales. He was also formerly Professor of International Business (Foundation for Management Education Chair) 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 where he served as Head of Department (1980-87), Director of the Glasgow Business School (1986-87) and Director of the Centre for International Finance and Accounting (1988-92).

Prior to becoming a university lecturer at the Lancaster University Management School in the 1970s, Sid Gray was an executive with international companies in the U.K, India and Australia, where he was latterly with Burns Philp. His business experience includes a period of more than 4 years in India as an expatriate manager involved in the export of tea, coffee, spices and cashew nuts as well as shipping, insurance and travel agency work.

Sid Gray’s main teaching and research interests are in the areas of international accounting and corporate transparency, international business strategy, and cross-cultural management. He is the author/co-author of numerous publications including articles in a number of leading journals around the world such as Journal of Accounting Research, Abacus, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, Accounting and Business Research, European Accounting Review, The International Journal of Accounting, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Management International Review, and International Journal of Human Resource Management. His books include International Accounting and Multinational Enterprises (John Wiley, USA), co-authored with Lee Radebaugh, and Financial Accounting: A Global Approach (Houghton Mifflin, USA), co-authored with Belverd Needles. He is a co-founder and Associate Editor of the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting (USA) and a member of the editorial boards of a number of international accounting and international business journals including the China Accounting and Finance Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Management, and Management International Review. In 1994 he was the first non-American to win the American Accounting Association’s International Section award of "Outstanding International Accounting Educator” for his sustained contributions to research and teaching in the field of international accounting. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia for distinction in the field of accounting.

Sid Gray served as President of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) from 1992-97, Chairman of the British Accounting Association (1987), and Secretary General of the European Accounting Association (1982-83). He has also served as a member of the peak accounting standard setting body for the U.K. and Ireland, the Accounting Standards Committee (ASC), from 1984-87. More recently, he was a founder and President of the Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy (ANZIBA) from 2002-2004. In 2006, he was awarded the Founder’s Award by the IAAER for distinguished service. In 2006, he was elected Deputy Chair of Council (where he has also been Chair of the Finance Committee since 2005) of Sydney University’s International House, a residential college for both international and Australian students. In 2007, he was elected Vice President – International of the American Accounting Association for the period 2007-2009.