Ahmed A. El-Masry graduated from the Faculty of Commerce of Mansoura University, Egypt where he got his BCom and MBA. He got his PhD in finance from Manchester Business School, UK. He is currently Associate Professor of Finance at Plymouth Business School, UK. In addition he is Affiliate Professor at Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France and Visiting Professor at Mansoura University, Egypt. His research and teaching interests have been fostered by several years of teaching and mentoring at Mansoura University from 1987 to 1999 and then Plymouth University from 2003 to present. He teaching interests are corporate finance, international finance, international financial management, financial research methods, investment & valuation, assets management, international securities markets, portfolio management, and valuation of securities. His PhD thesis on foreign exchange exposure and firm values built upon the most of his past research publications and his research has now focused upon capital structure; dividend policy; credit rating and credit scoring models; market efficiency & anomalies; corporate governance and online reporting; and Islamic finance and banking. Dr El-Masry is now doing research projects on e-government, m-government, m-banking and corporate internet reporting in developing countries. His research has been adapted to provide undergraduate and postgraduate students with research opportunities for their dissertation projects. In addition, his research has been published in Expert Systems with Applications, Journal of Operational Research Society, Managerial Finance and Cross-Cultural Management: International Journal, amongst others. Furthermore, he has been selected as an Editor-in-Chief of a new journal: Journal of International Business and Finance (JIBF), published by Serials Publications. He is also a reviewer in several international journals such as British Accounting Review, European Journal of Operational Research, Frontiers in Finance and Economics, International Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Business Strategy, Journal of International Business and Economics, Journal of International Finance and Economics, Review of Business Research, and Review of Financial Economics. In addition, he edited three issues for Managerial Finance Journal in vol. 32, issue 2, 2006 (Derivative use and risk management), vol. 33, issue 9, 2007 (foreign exchange rate exposure and its determinants) and vol. 34, issue 12, 2008 (corporate governance and ownership structure). In addition, he is an editorial board member for the International Academy for Business and Economics, and an associate editor of the International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management (a new journal published by IGI Global). Furthermore, Dr El-Masry currently acts as external examiner for several universities such as Glasgow Caledonian University Business School and Middlesex University Business School. He was also a chair of special sessions on Islamic banking and finance, IABE conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, in October 2006 and 2007 and is a Jury Committee Member, for Best Website and Annual Reports Competition, Egyptian Institute of Directors, Ministry of Investment in collaboration with the United Nations and the European Union, EGYPT, 2008 to present. Finally Dr El-Masry participated in several international conferences in Switzerland, Spain, Ireland, Egypt, Greece, UK and USA.