Olayinka Erin is an associate professor of accounting at the University of Johannesburg. Prior to his appointment at the University of Johannesburg, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of South Africa. He became the first Postdoctoral Research Fellow to attain the prestigious National Research Foundation (NRF) C-rating as an established researcher at the College of Accounting Sciences. He received his PhD in Accounting from Covenant University, Nigeria, in 2020. He has twenty (20) years of extensive experience from the financial services industry (Zenith Bank Plc.), a multinational firm (Unilever Nigeria Plc.), consulting (FactBase Consulting Ltd.), and academia (Wesley University, Nigeria; Anchor University, Nigeria; Augustine University, Nigeria; Open University of Nigeria (NOUN); Lagos State University (LASU); University of South Africa; and the University of Johannesburg). He currently teaches Empirical Accounting and IT Risk & Risk Management for master’s students at the University of Johannesburg.
He won the first prize in the 2019 Africa Call for Research Paper Initiative (ACPRI) jointly sponsored by the World Bank, Pan African Federation of Accountants (PAFA), and African Accounting and Finance Association (AAFA). He presented the outcome of the research initiative titled “Does public transparency and accountability impact Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in Africa?” to policymakers in 2019 at the fifth (5th) African Congress of Accountants (ACOA) held in Marrakech, Morocco. He also won the first prize for the best PhD colloquium at the fourth (4th) International Academic Conference of Accounting and Finance organized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) in 2018. He sits on the Editorial Board of the African Accounting and Finance Journal (AAFJ).
He has published widely in high impact accounting journals (ABS/ABDC Ranked Journals) such as International Journal of Disclosure and Governance (IJDG), Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change (JAOC), International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation (IJAAPE), International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics (IJBGE), Public Organization Review (POR), Journal of Public Affairs (JPA), Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal (SAMPJ), Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting (JFRA), Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies (JAEE), Measuring Business Excellence (MBE), Meditari Accounting Research (MEDITARI), Journal of Cleaner Production (JCLP). His research is centered on risk governance, corporate governance, and non-financial reporting, such as integrated reporting, sustainability, and SDG reporting.
He belongs to professional accounting organizations such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) UK, and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN). Previously, he was the acting head of the Department of Accounting and Finance at Anchor University, Lagos, Nigeria. He is a faculty member at the School of Banking Excellence of Access Bank Plc., where he teaches courses on Enterprise Risk Management, Bank Regulation, Financial Statement Analysis, Basic Accounting, and Banking Operations. He is currently a faculty member at the Rome Business School, Lagos Campus, Nigeria, where he facilitates courses on accounting and budgeting, private equity and venture capital, and debt valuation and interest rates.