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Nermeen Shehata

  • Position: Professor, Accounting
  • Department: Youssef Nabih Department of Accounting
  • Email: [email protected]
Brief Biography

Nermeen Shehata is a professor of accounting at the Onsi Sawiris School of Business at The American University in Cairo (AUC). She has academic experience in a wide range of educational systems, including the American, British and Egyptian systems. Shehata’s main research interest is corporate governance, as it is a multidisciplinary topic that significantly affects the development of capital markets, especially in emerging markets. She worked with organizations affiliated with the United Nations, World Bank and the European Union. She was invited to join various national and international corporate governance-related projects.

Shehata has had her research published in top-tier international peer-reviewed journals. She received several national, regional and international awards, including the Egyptian Presidency recognition at International Women’s Day, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award, the Rising Star of Corporate Governance Award by Columbia University and the Emerald’s Research Real Impact Award. Shehata is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and holds a PhD in management from Aston Business School in the UK.

Shehata’s research focuses on corporate governance (CG) and financial reporting quality. She has published in leading academic journals, including Managerial Auditing Journal, International Review of Finance, Asian Review of Accounting, Applied Economics, Journal of Management and Governance and Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society. Her work has been presented at prestigious international conferences organized by the American Accounting Association, European Accounting Association and British Finance and Accounting Association. Notably, she presented reports on CG disclosure in Egypt and the Gulf countries at the 30th Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Beyond her research, Shehata plays an active role in institutional and professional service. At AUC, she is a Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) associate, a frequent invited speaker at CLT events, a member of the School of Business Council and a participant in various school committees. She coordinates Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) activities within the Department and previously served as faculty advisor to the Corporate Governance Club—the first Egyptian student-based academic club promoting CG principles and best practices.

Shehata has also been deeply involved in national and international governance initiatives. Selected by ACCA to assess corporate governance in Egypt, she contributed to the international ACCA/KPMG report (2017). She translated the Egyptian CG code from Arabic to English for inclusion in the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) database and served on the Ministry of Public Business Sector’s 2016 committee to revise the CG code for state-owned enterprises. In 2017, she was invited by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to serve on an advisory board studying female inclusion on corporate boards in Egypt. That same year, she presented her findings on transparency and disclosure at a high-level roundtable on Investment Attractiveness and Transparency of the Egyptian Capital Market. Earlier, she was interviewed for the international report Improving the Attractiveness of the Egyptian Capital Market in Support of the Investment Environment (2016), prepared for the Egyptian government by the Government and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

 

  • 2013: PhD in Management (Accounting concentration), Aston Business School, Aston University, UK
  • 2011: Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Aston University, UK
  • 2009: MSc in Accounting, Faculty of Commerce (English Section), Cairo University, Egypt
  • 2005: BCom in Accounting, Faculty of Commerce (English Section), Cairo University, Egypt
  • 2024: Creative Women, Ministry of Culture, Egypt.
  • 2023: State Encouragement Research Award, Ministry of Culture, Egypt.
  • 2020: Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award, Jordan.
  • 2020: The Egyptian Woman: The Icon of Success, Egypt’s Presidency.
  • 2019: Golden Stellar Teaching and Activities Recognition (STAR) Award, School of Business, AUC.
  • 2019: Study UK Alumni Awards, Professional Achievement Category, Finalist, British Council, UK.
  • 2018: Real Impact Awards, Individual Commitment Category, Highly Commended Entry, Emerald Publishing, UK.
  • 2018: Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors, Poets & Quants, US.
  • 2018: Excellence in Research Award, School of Business, AUC.
  • 2017: Paul R. Lawrence Fellowship, Case Research Foundation, US.
  • 2016: Adrian Cadbury Memorial Award, International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), London, UK.
  • 2015: Millstein Center Rising Star of Corporate Governance Award, Columbia University, New York City, US.
  • 2014: Emerald/EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) MENA (Middle East North Africa) Management Research Fund Award, UK.