Robin Jarvis

Robin Jarvis is Professor of Accounting at Brunel University. In 2013 he was awarded the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the advancement of accounting and finance to the academic community. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Registry Trust Ltd. where he chairs their Audit and Risk Committee, a Board member of the Genesis Initiative, Secretary and Treasurer of Z2K a charity. Currently, from a European perspective Robin is the Special Adviser to European Federation of Accountants and Auditors (EFAA) and visiting Professor at Bucharest University. He was a member of and past chair (2004 -2009) of the EU Financial Services user Group (An expert forum set up by the European Commission to improve policy making in the field of financial services from a user perspective -consumer and small business). In the development of SME Accounting Standards he was a member of the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) group in the development of IFRS for SMEs followed by membership of the IASB’s SME Implementation Group.

Professor Jarvis's current research interests is the process of accounting standard setting, financial reporting for SMEs, Business Support provisions for SMEs and personal debt issues in the economy.