Professor Kenneth D'Silva

Professor Dr Kenneth D'Silva is a professor within Accounting and Finance at the School of Business of London South Bank University (LSBU). He is Director of the Centre for Research in Accounting, Finance & Governance. For several years until 2010, he was the Faculty's Director of Postgraduate Research Degrees and oversaw its MPhil, PhD and DBA Programmes. During that period, he successfully led the development and launch of the Faculty's DBA Programme.

Professor D'Silva is a UK and Canadian qualified Chartered Accountant with 'Big 4' firm experience in both countries. His professional career includes periods during which he held senior financial positions in industry. He was awarded his PhD from the Cass Business School in London, England and his doctoral thesis was in the area of Auditing.
Professor D'Silva's lecturing portfolio includes Research Methodology, Corporate Governance, and External-Internal Auditing. He is an active researcher and research supervisor, having successfully supervised several doctoral students to completion. His research is mainly in (external-internal) auditing and governance. He has presented papers at UK and overseas (e.g. Italy and India) research conferences and has conducted invitational-seminars in Research Methodology in the UK and abroad (e.g. China and Lithuania). His research publications appear in some of the relevant journals – both electronic and paper.
Professor D'Silva is often consulted as a referee for articles submitted for publication to various research journals in the area of accounting, auditing, corporate governance and research methods. He regularly reviews such articles for the following three research journals:
1. The Journal of Applied Accounting Research
2. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods
3. International Journal of Auditing
Professor D'Silva supervises or co-supervises several research students and generally has a set being supervised at any one time. Consequently, over many years, he has supervised or co-supervised several research students who successfully completed their doctoral research and after appropriate defence of their theses, were duly awarded their PhD degrees. These students have researched a range of issues which include the following:
-"Selected insights into Corporate Governance in FTSE Tech-Mark Companies: A theoretical and empirical analysis"
-"The development and construction of a European Real Estate Investment Trust and Stock Corporation Model Portfolio."
-"The application of Game theory to a comparative analysis of investment strategies"
-"A contextual investigation of key performance indicators for British-Thai industrial joint ventures"
-"Use of the Internet as a communication channel to identify overseas markets for UK grocery retailers."
-"The influence of employment-related institutions upon employees' attitudes in Chinese state-owned enterprises."
At the express invitation of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, Professor D'Silva is presently co-supervising a PhD research student at that university.