Konstantinos Bozos is Professor of International Accounting and Finance and Head of the Accounting and Finance Department at Leeds University Business School. Prior to joining Leeds, Konstantinos worked for several years in asset management, equity markets and financial consulting. His work sits at the interface between academic accounting and professional practice. As Head of Department he is responsible for the department’s strategy, staff development and international profile, and has led programme and departmental accreditation exercises alongside the design of professionally accredited accounting modules.
His teaching has been recognised with the Business School’s award for teaching excellence. His research on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and financial reporting is published in leading international journals, and he co-founded the Financial Management Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. He has held international visiting positions (Georgia State University in the US, Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria, the University of Piraeus and the International Hellenic University in Greece) and has acted as a Non-Executive Director in the financial services sector. He has served as external examiner for the University of Oxford and King’s College London and on national accreditation panels across Europe.