Dr. Zubair Shah

Biography

Dr Syed Zubair Shah has extensive and diverse experience of working in business, public and voluntary sectors with national and international organizations. He started his professional career as a marketing executive in a computer firm selling American products - Wang, Tandy & RadioShack. He served in the civil services of Pakistan in important leadership positions. He has worked with the United Nations Mission in Bosnia as an International Instructor and with the United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor as Chief of the Strategic Planning Department. Working as Project Lead, Dr Shah successfully led the first-of-its-kind community policing initiative in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, funded by the Department for International Development, UK. Dr Shah has also been a fellow of the prestigious International Visitor’s Leadership Program of the Department of State, United States Government. He has also qualified the Forensic Interviewing Course from Canadian Police College Ottawa, besides completing numerous other courses in diverse areas of interest.  
Prior to completing his PhD from the University of Bradford, Dr Shah had done his MA(ECON) in Public Policy and Management, First Position, from the University of Manchester, UK (Britannia Chevening Scholarship), Masters in Transnational Crime Prevention [Distinction] from the University of Wollongong Australia (AUSAID Scholarship), and Master of Public Administration from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK and a member of the British Accounting and Finance Association. His research interests include corporate governance, corporate fraud, audit and regulatory quality, financial crisis, debt crisis, interest rate regimes, diversity-based research and market-based accounting research.

Teaching

Modules

• Strategic Management Accounting - AFE7506-B
• Business Economics - AFE7504-A
• Professional Placement - MAR7513-A

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