Moataz El-Helaly is an associate professor of accounting at the Onsi Sawiris School of Business at The American University in Cairo. He holds a PhD in management with a concentration in accounting from Aston University in the United Kingdom, as well as a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in management from the German University in Cairo.

His research focuses on International Financial Reporting Standards, earnings management, related-party transactions and corporate governance. He has a growing record of publications in international peer-reviewed journals. His research has appeared in leading journals such as Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Financial Stability, Finance Research Letters and Accounting Education, among others.

El-Helaly has extensive teaching experience in accounting, having taught at the American University of Beirut, the British University in Egypt, Aston University and the German University in Cairo. His teaching interests include financial accounting, managerial accounting, financial statement analysis, accounting analytics and personal finance, among others.

During his PhD studies, he was a visiting researcher at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany and the University of Zurich in Switzerland. In 2018, he was named one of the 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors worldwide by Poets and Quants. He is an associate fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and holds the ACCA Certificates in Data Analytics and International Financial Reporting.