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Richard M.S. Wilson, Ex Officio
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Richard Wilson is Professor of Business Administration & Financial Management (Emeritus) at Loughborough University Business School and Visiting Research Professor (by invitation) at the Open University Business School in. He transferred (by invitation) to Loughborough from Keele University where he was Professor of Management & Accounting, and the founding Head of the Department of Management. In addition, he has held other chairs and several visiting appointments at universities in the UK and overseas and has been active as a consultant both in the UK and abroad (including 12 years with the US-based consulting firm Harbridge House), has held a number of non-executive directorships, and has served as external examiner/assessor at more than 30 universities worldwide. His earlier commercial experience was gained in a variety of industries. He has worked at a senior level in two US-based multi-national enterprises and was Group Chief Accountant of a listed holding company in his mid-twenties.

Amongst his qualifications Professor Wilson holds degrees in: social research; commerce; psychology/research methods; management; education; and sociology/technology. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). He recently completed a second (elected) term as President of the Nottingham, Derby & District branch of CIMA.

Professor Wilson has written/edited more than 40 books and contributed chapters to more than 30 further books as well as having written a wide range of papers, articles and monographs on topics within his fields of academic and professional expertise. He has acted as a consulting editor and series editor for two major publishers, and serves on the editorial boards of a number of research journals in the UK and elsewhere.

Within the academic and professional communities Professor Wilson has been active at a national and international level for over 30 years and has served on standing committees and working groups of such bodies as AAA, ACCA, BAA, CIMA, EAA, IAAER, and IFAC. He is the founding editor of Accounting Education: an international journal (which is published quarterly by Taylor & Francis and which became, from 1 January 2005, the official education journal of the IAAER). In 2003 he was re-elected for a second two-year term as Chairman of the Committee of Heads of Accounting (which covers universities offering degrees in Accounting & Finance in the UK and Ireland), was a member of the Scientific Committee for the IAAER’s 9th World Congress of Accounting Educators (held in Hong Kong in 2002), and is a member of the Scientific Committee for the IAAER’s 10th World Congress of Accounting Educators (held in Istanbul in 2006).

 



Michael Wells leads the education initiative of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (IASC Foundation). He qualified as a South African chartered accountant with Ernst & Young before being seconded to the firm's Detroit office. He subsequently joined the academic world and became the Associate Professor responsible for the financial accounting section of a South African university. He also served as an independent evaluator of professional qualifying examinations. He is a member of a number of international accountancy education advisory groups.