Kashan Pirzada is an assistant professor of Accounting at the College of Business, Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz, School of Accountancy, Universiti Utara Malaysia. He has joined TISSA-UUM after 13 years of research and teaching at the University of Malaya, Institute of Business Management, SMI University, PAF-KIET University and Bahria University. He is a qualified Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), UK and Chairman Advisory Board of Global Academy of Training & Research, Malaysia. Dr Pirzada working experience includes an extraordinarily diverse range of University programmes and conferences, editorial activities, international study, and professional internships. He is the founding editor of the GATR Global Journal of Business and Social Science Review, Accounting and Finance Review, Journal of Business and Economics Review and Journal of Finance and Banking Review that are indexed in several prestigious databases.

Dr Pirzada research interests focus on corporate governance; corporate disclosure and consequences; corporate social responsibility and sustainability and Institutional Ownership and Capital Structure effects and has published in international academic journals, such as Elsevier Journal of Social and Behavioural Sciences, British Accounting and Finance; Polish Journal of Management Studies; Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, and International Journal of Economics and Management.

Dr Pirzada has supervised a number of Master and PhD candidate and act as an external examiner. He has been a lead guest editor for Elsevier Procedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Pertanika of Social Sciences and Humanities, and International Journal of Economics and Management. He is currently on the editorial board of several WoS & Scopus journals, including Polish Journal of Management Studies, International Trade and Business Law Review, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues and International Journal of Ethics and Systems. He is a regular speaker at research and professional forums, including the workshops.