Magdi El-Bannany obtained his PhD from Liverpool Business School, LJMU. He is a senior faculty member at the University of Sharjah in UAE and at Ain Shams University in Egypt. He was a Research Fellow at Liverpool Business School, LJMU, for ten years. He has more than thirty-five years as a Chartered Accountant in Egypt, the UK, and the UAE. His teaching and research interests include auditing, financial reporting quality, intellectual capital, social responsibility, bank profitability, earnings management, firm performance, and corporate governance.