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Professor Simon Archer

 

 

 

  Visiting Professor

 

  ICMA Centre 

 

 

 

Simon Archer MA PhD FCA FRSA is Visiting Professor at the ICMA Centre. Previously, he was Professor of Financial Management at the University of Surrey, UK, having been Midland Bank Professor of Financial Sector Accounting at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has been a visiting professor at various universities and business schools, including Bordeaux, Metz, ESCP-EAP and HEC in France, Frankfurt and Koblenz in Germany, and IIUM in Malaysia. After studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen in London and then moved to Price Waterhouse in Paris, where he became Partner in charge of Management Consultancy Services in France and Scandinavia. His academic career thus began after substantial experience as a practitioner, mainly in management consulting.


Professor Archer’s main research interests are in the fields of International Accounting, Accounting Theory and Accounting for Banks, including the financial reporting, capital adequacy, risk management and corporate governance of financial institutions. His recent work has been particularly concerned with Islamic financial institutions. He is co-author of the International Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards Guide published by CCH and co-editor of the Miller European Accounting Guide, published by Aspen, in addition to being co-editor (and chapter author) of Islamic Finance: Innovation and Growth, published by Euromoney Books and of Islamic Finance: the Regulatory Challenge published by John Wiley.and Takaful (Islamic Insurance): Concepts and Regulatory Issues to be published by John Wiley. He is also the author of a considerable number of academic papers on accounting theory, international accounting and accounting, finance and governance issues in financial institutions, including those in Islamic finance. He supervises PhD research students in these areas, and has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences and seminars.

His consultancy work includes the following:
Consultant to AAOIFI Capital Adequacy Committee, 1997-1999.
Consultant to AAOIFI on English language versions of Standards on Financial Accounting, Auditing, Governance and Shari’a, 1997-2003.
Consultant to AAOIFI on the relationship between AAOIFI’s Financial Accounting Standards and IASB’s IAS, 2002. He prepared a report for AAOIFI on the subject. 

 

Consultant to A’Ayan Leasing and Investment Co. Kuwait, on the Capital Adequacy implications of conversion into an Islamic bank, 2002

 

Consultant to the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) for the following projects leading to the publication of Standards, Guidelines or Exposure Drafts:

 

·         Capital Adequacy of Institutions offering Islamic Financial Services

 

·         Risk Management in Institutions offering Islamic Financial Services

 

·         Corporate Governance of Institutions offering Islamic Financial Services

 

·         The Supervisory Review Process for Institutions offering Islamic Financial Services

 

·         Transparency and Market Discipline for Institutions offering Islamic Financial Services

 

·         The Governance of Takaful Undertakings

 

·         Shari’ah Governance

 

·         Governance of Islamic Investment Funds

 

·         Conduct of Business of Islamic Financial Institutions

 

·         Solvency of Takaful Undertakings