Dr Ashfaq Ahmad Khan

Biography

Dr Khan did his Bachelor and Master in Business Administration (major in Accounting and Finance) from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan with High Distinction, securing a Gold Medal in the Bachelor and a second position in order of merit in the Master. He achieved his PhD in Accounting at the University of Wollongong’s School of Accounting and Finance, Australia, in 2008. Prior to joining UNE in January 2010, Dr Khan served the University of Nizwa, Oman, as Assistant Professor in Accounting. During the period from March 2004 through to August 2008, he taught various Accounting and Finance units as a Part-Time Teaching Academic at the University of Wollongong and MIT Sydney.

Prior to embarking on a career in teaching and research, Dr Khan worked as a commercial banker in Pakistan from March 1995 through to February 2003 during which time he worked in both domestic and international banking operations. His research areas of interest include SMEs and microfinance, poverty and poverty alleviation strategies, tertiary teaching and learning, management accounting, auditing, institutional theory and organizational change dynamics.