Dr. Elias is Faculty Emeritus at the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; a member of TLA, The Leadership Alliance, a virtual group of international consultants and academics; a member of EBBF – Ethical Business Building the Future, a Baha’i-inspired global learning community whose aim is to transform business and organizations contributing to a prosperous, just and sustainable civilization; a member of Charlotte Rotary International; a member of the Arab American Council of the Carolinas; a consultant to the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education; and a member of the International Environment Forum.

Prior to his retirement from UNC Charlotte, Dr. Elias taught predominantly in the MBA and MACC programs and served as director of its MBA program. At the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba (Canada), he served as professor of accounting, director of MBA programs, interim associate dean, and department head. He held positions as visiting professor at INSEAD (France), Thunderbird School of Global Management (Glendale, AZ), HEC (France), ESCP (France), and Laval University (Quebec, Canada). He also taught MBA classes at Monterrey Tech EGADE in Monterrey (Mexico), and in UNC Charlotte’s MBA programs in Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Nabil Elias served as President of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association, and as a standard setter he served as a member of the Canadian Accounting Standards Board and the Canadian Standards Advisory Board. He served on several professional study groups and task forces dealing with accounting, reporting, and management issues. He served as member of CMA accreditation and re-accreditation site-visit teams that evaluated more than 15 leading Canadian business schools including Ivey, U of Western Ontario; Rotman, U of Toronto; Schulich, York U; U of British Columbia; Simon Fraser U; HEC, Hautes Etudes Commerciales; and Asper, U of Manitoba.

Dr. Elias conducted seminars and consulted with several companies and professional organizations including Boeing Technology Canada, the Bank of America, The SGL Group, Richardson International, Cangene, CIBC, and Office of the Auditor General of Canada, as well as with professional accounting organizations. He presented open enrollment executive development seminars at INSEAD, the Asper School of Business, UNC Charlotte, and the IMA.

As director of MBA programs at the Asper School of Business, Dr. Elias led several MBA delegations to Mexico, Hong Kong, China, and Japan. Through the Kenan Institute and UNC Chapel Hill Kenan Flagler Executive Education, Dr. Elias served as Technical Director of a World Bank funded project to develop the Egyptian Institute of Directors and its corporate governance curriculum, and to provide training to master trainers on corporate governance in cooperation with several organizations including the Conference Board.

Dr. Elias holds his PhD and MS from the University of Minnesota and his B Com from the University of Alexandria (Egypt). He is a former Fulbright Grantee. He holds Canadian designations as a Chartered Professional Accountant (Canada), Certified Management Accountant (Canada), and earned the honorary distinction as Fellow Certified Management Accountant (FCMA) in Canada. He coauthored management accounting and cost accounting textbooks and a research monograph on Environmental Management and Reporting (1998, CGA, Canada), and of a Statement of Management Accounting for the Institute of Management Accountants on Customer Profitability Management (2010, IMA, USA). Dr. Elias published in top academic and professional journals including the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of International Accounting Research, Advances in Management Accounting, and International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics. He served on various academic and professional journal editorial boards.