Khalid Nainar

Khalid Nainar is a Professor in the Accounting & Financial Management department at McMaster University. His scholarly work spans finance, business ethics, and economic policy, with a focus on banking, corporate governance, and social responsibility. He teaches Managerial Accounting, Financial Accounting, and Research Methods courses.

Research interests include:

• Transparency and trust in financial systems
• Corporate Social Responsibility and crime prevention
• ESG performance in banking
• Islamic finance and ethics
• Leadership dynamics in corporate and urban economics

Recent publications analyze:

• 2025: Institutional identity crises in Islamic banks
• 2024: CSR-crime nexus, ESG-loan quality links, and leadership vacuums in transition economies
• 2023: Cybersecurity impacts on banking earnings

He has collaborated with scholars like Mohamed Shehata and Yiqiang Jin on over 40 publications since 1989.