Dr. Maria Krambia-Kapardis (PhD (Edith Cowan University, Australia), M.Bus. (RMIT) and B.Ec (LaTrobe University, Australia) is currently a Professor of Accounting with a specialization in Forensic Accounting at the Cyprus University of Technology. Professor Krambia-Kapardis has also served as the Associate Dean of the School of Management and Economics at the same University. Maria is the founder and first Chair of Transparency International-Cyprus (2010-2017), the founder and first president of the Economic Crime and Forensic Accounting Committee of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (2010-2014) and a co-founder and member of the Board of the Cyprus Branch of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE- Cyprus) (2017- 2020). She has been a visiting scholar at Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia), Cambridge University (UK) and Girona University (Spain). Her research interests are corruption and anti-corruption; ethical behaviour; fraud detection, investigation and prevention; ethical leadership and modern slavery. She has published extensively internationally including books such as (a) Financial Compliance: Issues, Concerns, and Future Directions and (b) Corporate Fraud and Corruption: A Holistic Approach to Preventing Financial Crises (c) co-edited the Palgrave Handbook on Modern Slavery and (d) co-edited the Routledge Handbook on Gender and Corruption. She is a Fellow member of Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand and a Certified Fraud Examiner, was for a number of years on the Disciplinary Board of the Cyprus Institute of CPAs and is now serving a second term on the Disciplinary Board of the Cyprus Public Audit Oversight Board. Maria served as the country expert on corruption for the European Commission for a number of years and she has been awarded a number of prizes for her publications by Emerald Literati Network. The ACFE awarded her the global Achievement in Outreach/Community Service Award for being an active contributor to her community and being committed to helping improve the quality of life where she lives and works. In December 2019 she was awarded the ACE Anti-Corruption Excellence Award in the academic research and education category. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7762-1118; [email protected]
