Professor Atul Shah

Honorary Research Fellow

Bayes Business School

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Professor Atul K. Shah PhD (LSE) FCA is a multi-award winning accomplished thought leader, writer, lecturer and broadcaster, with a PhD from London School of Economics, and has published international books and research papers in renown journals. His work has been profiled/featured in Forbes, Guardian, Financial Times, Economia and on BBC Radio many times. 

Research Books published by Routledge include 'Organic Finance'(2025); 'Inclusive and Sustainable Finance - Leadership, Ethics and Culture' (2023) 'The Politics of Risk, Audit & Regulation - A Case Study of HBOS'; 'Jainism and Ethical Finance' (jointly with Aidan Rankin); 'Reinventing Accounting & Finance Education - For a Caring, Inclusive and Sustainable Planet'; and 'Celebrating Diversity'. Journals in which he has published include Accounting, Organisations and Society; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; European Accounting Review; Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance; Business Ethics - A European Review;.

Professor Atul K. Shah has taught at the London School of Economics; University of Bristol; University of Maryland; University of Essex; University of Suffolk; and Middlesex University. 

He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Fellow of ICAEW. He is passionate about Cultural Inclusion and Ethical Finance and continues to provide global academic leadership in a number of critical areas relating to finance, accounting and corporate governance and regulation. He is a sought after speaker and broadcaster and an active pioneer in the field of culture, finance and leadership.

For further details and latest information, visit https://atulkshah.co.uk/

Qualifications

  • PhD, London School of Economics, United Kingdom, 1990 - 1993

Publications

Books (5)

  1. Shah, A.K. (2025). Organic Finance. Routledge.
  2. Shah, A.K. (2017). Reinventing Accounting and Finance Education For a Caring, Inclusive and Sustainable Planet. Routledge. ISBN 9781351705455.
  3. Shah, A.K. (2017). The Politics of Financial Risk, Audit and Regulation. Routledge.
  4. Shah, A.K. and Rankin, A. (2017). Jainism and Ethical Finance A Timeless Business Model. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317234210.
  5. Shah, A. (2007). Celebrating Diversity. UK: Kevin Mayhew.

Chapters (3)

  1. Shah, A.K. (2024). Racism in the accounting academy - an auto-ethnographic case study of British higher education. Handbook of Accounting in Society (pp. 363-376). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781803921990.
  2. Vollmer, H., Bigoni, M., Brackley, J., Closs-Davies, S., Cuckston, T., Denedo, M.... van Helden, J. (2024). Encountering accounting in society. Handbook of Accounting in Society (pp. 446-458).
  3. Shah, A.K. (2024). Jain Economic Ethics. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Economic Ethics (pp. 42-57). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192894328.

Journal articles (2)

  1. Shah, A.K. (2022). Reform Lessons From Investigative Journalism. Review Essay of ‘Beancounters’ by Richard Brooks. The British Accounting Review, 54(3), pp. 101069-101069. doi:10.1016/j.bar.2021.101069

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  2. Murphy, R., Janský, P. and Shah, A. (2019). BEPS Policy Failure—The Case of EU Country-By-Country Reporting1. Nordic Tax Journal, 2019(1), pp. 63-86. doi:10.1515/ntaxj-2019-0005

    [publisher’s website]