Draft:Muhammad Azizul Islam

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • Comment: Per previous comments over several years, and the deletion following an WP:AFD: in the absence of WP:SIGCOV which is not just a staff listing, etc, person doesn't yet appear to be notable. Chumpih t 04:04, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Removed uses of Wikipedia artices as references in Oct 2021 and again May 2022. David notMD (talk) 12:26, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
  • Comment: Far too much reliance on primary sources. Unsourced material is unacceptable in a biography, and the article would probably be deleted (again) at WP:AFD on those grounds alone. SN54129 14:44, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
Muhammad Azizul Islam
Born1975
Jamalpur
NationalityBangladeshi
CitizenshipBangladesh, Australia
OccupationAcademic
AwardsScottish Fair Trade and Sustainability Award Winner 2022 (https://www.scottishfairtradeforum.org.uk/professor-muhammad-azizul-islam/)
Academic background
Alma materRMIT University University of Antwerp
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Aberdeen

Queensland University of Technology

Deakin University

RMIT University

Muhammad Azizul Islam (born 1975) is a Bangladeshi Australian academic who is Chair in Accountancy and Professor in Sustainability Accounting & Transparency at the University of Aberdeen and is also recognised internationally as a leading sustainability accounting researcher.[1]. Previously, he was a faculty member at School of Accountancy, QUT, Department of Accounting, Deakin University, School of Accounting, RMIT University, Department of Accounting and Information System, University of Dhaka, and Business Adminstration Discipline, Khulna University. He is Chartered Accountant and has a membership from CAANZ. Islam is a civil society representative of Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG), UKEITI and he is also a member of GRI Advisory Group on Labour and Human Rights standards.

Islam is known for his work on some of the specific sustainability accounting and transparency issues including human rights disclosures, corporate transparency on modern slavery, SDGs & social audit and corporate anti-bribery measures and profiled in news media Conversation[2] BBC [3], Raconteur[4] The Sydney Morning Herald , Sunday Post , Just-Style, Retail Gazette, Financial Express, Prothom Alo[5] (premier Bangla news) and IFAC-Gateway[6]. He has published a book ‘Social Compliance Accounting[7] (Springer Nature, 2015). He was the managing Guest Editor for the British Accounting Review, Special section on Modern Slavery and the Accounting Profession. He was a past joint editor of Accounting Research Journal. He is an associate editor of Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.

Education[edit]

Islam earned a PhD on Corporate Social and Environmental Reporting Practices within the context of global clothing supply chains from RMIT University. He received a Master’s Degree and Honours Degree in Accounting from The University of Dhaka. He earned a second Master’s Degree in Globalisation and Economic Development from The University of Antwerp.

Key Research work[edit]

Over the past 18 years, Professor Islam has been investigating the use of social audits[8] and Human Rights disclosures in relation to the lives of those who work in garment factories loacted in the Global South (mainly in Bangladesh) that supply goods to big multinational companies based in North America, Europe and Australia[9][10]. His research highlights problematic aspects of corporate social accountability and transparency[11] [12]. In 2020-2023, Islam led a few funded projects including one funded[13] by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) on preventing exploitation of women in the Bangladesh garment industry[14]

Islam has shared his research fiindings with the UK policymakers and Parliament members via All Party Parliamentary Group meeting/s[15] [16]. His research supports Transform Trade's (a global Trade Justice NGO) campaign for a Fashion Watchdog and recommends the UK Government to introduce a garment trade adjudicator to eliminate unfair purashing practices by the UK Fashion retailers.

In 2017 and 2018, he made a parliamentary submission to the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a submission to the Joint Parliamentary and Senate Inquiry Committee that concentrated on the establishment of a Modern Slavery Act 2018 in Australia.

Accounting profession and modern slavery[edit]

Professor Islam focuses on accountants and auditors’ responsibility in relation to curbing modern slavery. The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) published his article titled ‘Tackling Modern Slavery: What Role Can Accountants Play?. In this article, he sees the future of modern slavery auditing as collaborative, where NGOs and accountants work together to tackle modern slavery. He argues that sustainability accounting should have an emancipatory role for future accountants and managers to tackle modern slavery. In his interview for AccountingWeb, he argues that in an attempt to eliminate modern slavery from Businesses, CFOs, finance directors and accountants should come forward and make their income statements and balance sheets human rights friendly.

Bibliography[edit]

References:[edit]

  1. ^ "Professor M. Azizul Islam | Staff Profile | Business School | The University of Aberdeen". www.abdn.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  2. ^ "Muhammad Azizul Islam". The Conversation. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  3. ^ "Fashion brands paid Bangladesh factories less than cost - report". BBC. 2023-01-08. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  4. ^ "The push for supply chain transparency". Raconteur. 2021-03-21. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  5. ^ প্রতিবেদক, নিজস্ব. "ব্যবসায় সামাজিক দায়বদ্ধতায় আন্দোলন জরুরি?". Prothomalo (in Bengali). Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  6. ^ "Accountants' Due Diligence for SDG Transparency in the Post-Covid-19 Era". IFAC. 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  7. ^ Islam, Muhammad Azizul (2015). Social Compliance Accounting: Managing Legitimacy in Global Supply Chains. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-09996-5.
  8. ^ Islam, Muhammad Azizul; Deegan, Craig; Gray, Rob (2018-02-23). "Social compliance audits and multinational corporation supply chain: evidence from a study of the rituals of social audits". Accounting and Business Research. 48 (2): 190–224. doi:10.1080/00014788.2017.1362330. hdl:2164/12158. ISSN 0001-4788. S2CID 158866279.
  9. ^ Islam, Muhammad Azizul; McPhail, Ken (2011-11-01). "Regulating for corporate human rights abuses: The emergence of corporate reporting on the ILO's human rights standards within the global garment manufacturing and retail industry". Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Accounting For Human Rights. 22 (8): 790–810. doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2011.07.003. ISSN 1045-2354.
  10. ^ Islam, Muhammad Azizul; Deegan, Craig; Haque, Shamima (2021-01-01). "Corporate human rights performance and moral power: A study of retail MNCs' supply chains in Bangladesh". Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 74: 102163. doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2020.102163. hdl:2164/18971. ISSN 1045-2354. S2CID 214385629.
  11. ^ Islam, Muhammad Azizul (30 June 2020). "Coronavirus measures give Bangladeshi workers for global clothing chains a stark choice: disease or starvation". The Conversation. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  12. ^ "Rana Plaza: ten years after the Bangladesh factory collapse, we are no closer to fixing modern slavery". Conversation. 21 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  13. ^ "UK Research and Innovation".
  14. ^ "Preventing exploitation of women in Bangladesh garment industry". Modern Slavery PEC. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  15. ^ "Meeting Cross Party Group on Bangladesh and Cross Party Group on Fair Trade" (PDF). Scottish Parliament. 2023-11-15. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  16. ^ "Fashion Watchdog Meeting".

External links[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Muhammad_Azizul_Islam&oldid=1209280961"