Hector B. Perera, Emeritus Professor
Hector Perera is an Emeritus Professor at Massey University, New Zealand, where he taught and conducted research for 20 years. He joined Macquarie University in Australia in 2007, and retired in 2012. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Ceylon (Peradeniya), Sri Lanka and a PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia.
Professor Perera’s research has dealt mainly with international accounting issues and has been published in a number of scholarly journals, including Journal of International Accounting Research; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Journal of Accounting Literature; International Journal of Accounting; Advances in International Accounting; Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting; Abacus; Accounting and Business Research; Accounting Historians Journal; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Journal of Contemporary Asia; British Accounting Review; Accounting Education—An International Journal; Australian Accounting Review; International Journal of Management Education; Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies; and Pacific Accounting Review. In an article appearing in a 1999 issue of the International Journal of Accounting, he was ranked fourth equal in authorship of international accounting research in U.S. journals over the period 1980–1996.
Professor Perera served as chair of the International Relations Committee of the American Accounting Association’s International Accounting Section in 2003 and 2004. He was an associate editor for the Journal of International Accounting Research and was on the editorial boards of Accounting Horizons, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, and Pacific Accounting Review.