FACULTY BIO

Dr. Hala Elias is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting, College of Business Administration at the University of Bahrain, which she joined in September 2020. She has taught several accounting and finance courses including cost accounting, financial accounting, management accounting, auditing, and financial management. Before that, she had worked for about 10 years as the Dean of the College of Business & Financial Sciences, at the Royal University for Women, Bahrain. In 1990, Dr. Hala received her Bachelor degree in Management from Ahfad University for Women, Sudan. This university is the outcome of the great work of late Sheikh Babiker Badri, whom Dr. Hala is proud to be his great granddaughter, and who started girls’ education in Sudan in 1907. Further, in 1993 she received her Master's degree in Financial Managerial Controls and a Ph.D. degree in Accounting in 2001, both from the University of Southampton, UK. Her research interests and work include studying accounting, budgeting, as well as management in general, in higher educational institutions as well as the public sector. She has special research interests in women studies and management. Dr. Hala also taught at the School of Management in Ahfad University for Women, Sudan, for over 8 years. Further, she has international experience since she worked as an Accounting Manager and a Project Manager in the Delegation of the European Commission (EC) to Sudan from 2003 to 2005. She then joined in 2007 the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), USA, as an Adjunct Associate Professor in Accounting. She also worked for almost one year as an Accounting Manager in the International Rescue Committee (IRC), Maryland, USA. She is a Certified Nonprofit Accounting Professional (CNAP) by the Fiscal Management Associates Institute, New York, USA since 2005.