Dr. Alaa Alhaj Ismail is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity of Coventry University. His representative research has been published in internationally excellent academic journals (The British Accounting Review, Accounting and Business Research, International Review of Financial Analysis, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics and the Australian Accounting Review). Alaa has co-supervised doctoral students who are now serving as faculty members in Coventry University.

Alaa's academic research addresses accounting issues with important policy relevance, and his research interest focuses on financial reporting and disclosure, accounting regulations and capital market accounting research. He also engages further with interdisciplinary research in corporate governance, auditing, corporate social responsibility and United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with Focus on Sustainable Cities & Communications and Reduced Inequality. He has examined a wide array of topical issues ranging from the economic consequences of accounting standards and disclosure regulations to the capital market and information impact of corporate governance reform, financial crisis, and executives' & employees'  engagement, efficiency and compensations.