Emeritus Professor Gloria Agyemang, from the Department of Accounting and Financial Management at Royal Holloway, has been inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her academic excellence and outstanding contribution to developing solutions to pressing societal issues.
Professor Gloria Agyemang, Emeritus Professor and former Executive Dean of Royal Holloway’s School of Business and Management.
Professor Gloria Agyemang has been awarded Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences this Spring as one of the outstanding social scientists in the UK.
Professor Gloria Agyemang is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at Royal Holloway, University of London. Having extensive teaching and management experience in universities in the UK and Africa, Professor Agyemang is passionate about promoting accountability and effective management control in public sector organisations and advancing accounting management in less developed and emerging economies in Africa. She is interested in how accounting and accountability issues impact upon social policies and social justice.
Being appointed as the Executive Dean of Royal Holloway’s School of Business and Management in 2017, Professor Agyemang was the first Black woman in the UK to lead a University Business School. She led the school through a significant period of robust growth, achieving new heights in both teaching and research.
In 2020, Professor Agyemang was honoured with the Distinguished Accounting Academic Award by the British Accounting and Finance Association for her substantial contribution made in her academic accounting and finance career. She was inducted into the Asian Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Hall of Fame in 2022.
Professor Agyemang always used her profile to raise diversity and inclusion efforts across both Royal Holloway and the higher education sector by championing meaningful initiatives. She also proactively contributed to UN Sustainable Development Goals throughout her career and worked towards ending poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity for all.
Professor Christos Tsinopoulos, Executive Dean, School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway congratulated Professor Agyemang on her accomplishment, “Professor’s Agyemang’s contribution has been significant. Not only she has led our school through a period of change, but she has implemented a plethora of initiatives across the sector which have improved the access of academics to the field of accounting. We are delighted that she has been elected as a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and we are certain that her contribution to the Academy will be transformational.”
The Academy of Social Sciences is the national academy of academics, practitioners and learned societies in the social sciences. The academy promotes the social sciences in the UK for public benefit, and showcase, champion and advocate for the social sciences and their applications, raising awareness – in policy, business and with the public – of their immense value in understanding and managing our contemporary human world, and helping to secure their flourishing future.
