Professor Omar Al Farooque
Professor of Financial Accounting - UNE Business School
Biography
Dr. Omar is a Professor of Financial Accounting at the University of New England (UNE) Business School. He completed a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Finance and a Master of Commerce in Banking at the University of Dhaka, then joined the same university as a faculty member and held academic appointments up to Associate Professor. He completed a Master of Economics at the Osaka City University in Japan and a PhD in Accounting at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. During his PhD study, Dr Omar served at the University of Auckland for more than 2 years from 2005 to 2007. After completing PhD, he joined UNE in 2007 and served the School as undergraduate and postgraduate program coordinator and discipline convenor. He also has significant engagement with service to the University in many committees including several terms on the Academic Promotions Committee (Level C and Level D).
Prof. Omar has wide experience of teaching accounting, auditing, finance and banking. His current teaching focuses on financial accounting, auditing and accounting capstone for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in a face-to-face and online learning environment. He has received several teaching awards at School and Faculty levels including innovative use of technology in teaching. He has substantial contributions to accounting curriculum development and professional accreditation as well as mentoring junior colleagues. He has also worked closely with NSW TAFE and Open University Australia for curriculum mapping and delivery of accounting programs. His expertise in curricula design in higher education has been recognised internationally. He became an Honorary Professor at a highly ranked Chinese University, Shandong Institute of Business and Technology, and external examiner of accounting programs for the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in Malaysia. Dr Omar is a Member of Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ), a Fellow of Certified Practicing Accounting (CPA) and Institute of Public Accountants (IPA), as well as a Fellow of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research. He also works extensively with Australian accounting professional bodies such as CPA as their Disciplinary Tribunal Panel member and IPA as a divisional advisory committee member.
Prof. Omar is an internationally recognised researcher in the field of accounting, finance, economics and business areas with a particular focus on corporate governance, sustainability and accounting/finance/banking research. He leads and works with several cross-disciplinary research teams, both nationally and internationally. He publishes consistently in higher ranked leading international journals while recognising the need to influence policy, and became a leader in Islamic banking and corporate governance. Dr Omar approach to scholarly endeavours is to collaborate widely with international colleagues to bring in research income and attract PhD students to supervise. He has been actively involved in serving the research community. Currently, he is serving two Australian journals as Associate Editor. He has undertaken numerous invited presentations at national and international conferences, research seminars/workshops. Previously, he also undertakes consultancy works with the World Bank, TAFE NSW, Pearson VUE eta. Overall, Dr. Omar has maintained a sustained and high-level of scholarly research achievements.
