Professor Samy Nathan Garas - Associate

Samy Nathan is Professor of Accounting and Finance at the New York Institute of Technology - Bahrain Campus.

He has almost 17 years of experience in Accounting and Finance in both academia and practice in Egypt and Bahrain. He held senior positions in multinational firms in Egypt (Egyptian Engineering Agencies and International Publications Ltd.). He moved to Bahrain eight years ago to be a professor of Accounting and Finance in New York Institute of Technology. In 2005, he was awarded the professor of the year from NYIT. During the last four years, all his studies and writings have been focused on corporate governance in Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs). He has written several academic papers with Emerald and Bahrain Center for Studies and Research as well as several chapters on corporate governance. Specifically, his recent studies cover the role of the Shari'a Supervisory Board in the corporate governance structure of IFIs and their relation to stakeholders. Recently, he participated in the CIPA training programme provided by the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). He has also contributed to corporate governance conferences in the US through the Academy of Management, as well as in the UK with Henley Management College. He is a long standing member of such professional organizations as the Academy of Management and International Management Association.