Ilias is senior lecturer/ associate professor of Financial Accounting & Auditing in the Accounting Department at Aston Business School and the Chairman of the Auditing Special Interest Group of the British Accounting and Finance Association. ilias is also Fellow of the UK Academy of Higher Education and Editor of the International Journal of Auditing (since 2012). He has also been external examiner in various universities, currently in the East Anglia University, Norwich Business School.

He is the author of the textbook, Financial Accounting: a Practical Introduction, by Pearson. His second book, Financial Accounting: The Basics, by Routledge, published in 2019.

He moved to Aston in 2000 after he had an appointment with Warwick Business School. He completed his PhD in 1999 and taught a variety of subjects in Warwick between 1996-2000. He has been a member of various committees at Aston (including being the Director of the Higher Education in Learning and Management (HELM) centre 2011-2014, and the Director of the Accounting for Management 2002-2008). Ilias has held short teaching and research visiting appointments at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in ALBA Greece, in RMIT, Australia and in Deakin University, Australia. He is a member of the editorial board of the Auditing: a Journal of Practice and Theory journal, and an ad-hoc reviewer of various academic journals and international conferences.

He teaches mainly financial accounting and auditing at graduate and undergraduate levels. His research interests lie primarily within the area of auditing and corporate governance and include the market for audit services in the private and public sectors, earnings quality and audit quality, corporate governance and audit committees, the regulation of accounting, the accounting profession. Ilias is also doing research in the accounting education area.

He is annually elected as the chairman the Auditing Group of the British Accounting & Finance Association (since 2006) and is responsible for the organisation of the highly successful annual Audit & Assurance Conference. The Auditing Group is an international network of scholars (from PhD doctoral students to Professors) and auditing practitioners, regulators, and others such as accounting practitioners and members of the business community. The Audit & Assurance Conference is a premier event for academic and non-academic delegates who wish to hear powerful keynote speakers and international presenters representing the international auditing academia, accounting professionals in practice and in business, the professional bodies, and the standard setters and regulatory bodies. The conference provides critical exposure to significant emergent research, as well as today’s current auditing, corporate governance and assurance issues and trends in the worldwide arena of the audit and assurance markets..

As an Editor of the International Journal of Auditing, ilias is responsible to monitor and ensure the fairness, timeliness, thoroughness, and civility of the journal’s peer-review editorial process. The Journal is a high-quality specialist journal that publishes articles from the broad spectrum of auditing. Its primary aim is to communicate clearly, to an international readership, the results of original auditing research conducted in research institutions and/or in practice. The Journal is ranked as 2* in CABS and A in ABDC.

Ilias has been a governor in two different primary schools, and chaired the governing body of one. In his role, he was providing strategic direction and ensuring clarity of vision and the Christian ethos were maintained in the school. Ilias is also a qualified basketball coach, training and coaching the Coventry Tornadoes basketball club, and his sons’ school basketball club.

Ilias was recently invited to give oral evidence as expert witness to the UK Parliament in an Parliamentary inquiry/investigation on the future of audit that is being led by BEIS Select Committee (the ministerial Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy). His evidence was broadcasted live on the Parliament TV at https://goo.gl/PRit4u