Olayinka ERIN holds a PhD in Accounting from Covenant University, Nigeria. He has over fifteen (15) years of extensive experience in the financial services industry, multinational firm, consulting and academia. He won the first prize of 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 5^th African Congress of Accountants (ACOA) held in Morocco. He also won the first prize for the best PhD colloquium at the 4^th International Academic Conference of Accounting and Finance organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria (ICAN) in 2018. He is a recipient of the Pan African Doctoral Academy (PADA) held at the University of Ghana in 2019 partly sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He has published in high impact accounting journals such as the International Journal of Disclosure and Governance (IJDG), the Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal (AAFSJ), Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting (AAJFA). He reviews several accounting journals and has also published in ABS and Scopus index journals in accounting. His teaching capabilities are in the areas of Management Accounting; Strategic Financial Management (SFM); Management, Governance & Ethics (MGE) while his research focus are Risk Governance, Accounting Ethics and Corporate Reporting with a focus on Sustainability and SDG Reporting. He belongs to several professional organisations such as Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), Institute of Management Consultant of Nigeria (IMCN), and Society of Educational Administrators of Nigeria (SEAN). He currently lectures at Anchor University, Lagos, Nigeria at the department of Accounting.