Noel Hyndman is Professor of Accounting and Director of the Centre for Not-for-profit and Public-sector Research at Queen’s, after previously being Professor at the University of Ulster. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Ottawa in Canada and the University of Sydney in Australia, as well as being an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His main research interests have centred on performance measurement, performance reporting, management accounting and accounting change in charities, public sector organisations and not-for-profit organisations. He has published widely on these issues. Noel was a member of the Annual Reporting Advisory Group established by the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales between 2003 and 2005, then a member of the Charity Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) Committee between 2006 and 2014 (reappointed to the current SORP Committee, 2014). In Northern Ireland (NI), he was a member of the Consultative Committee (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment) to review NI legislation with respect to Industrial and Provident Societies, and Credit Unions (between 2003 and 2005), and between 2008 and 2010 a member of the Charity Regulation Stakeholder Group, Department of Social Development (NI). In 2015 and 2016 he was a member of the Department for Social Development (NI) / Charity Commission NI Accounts and Reports Working Group. Currently he is Chair of the British Accounting and Finance Association’s (BAFA) Public Services and Charities Special Interest Group and a member of BAFA's Executive Committee.  He is associate editor of Financial Accountability & Management, and a member of the editorial boards of The International Journal of Public Policy, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting and Business Research, Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management and Public Money & Management. He has been Academic Advisor to the Chartered Accountants Ireland Educational Trust since 2011.