Prof. El-Masry is a Professor of Corporate Finance and Governance and the Lead of Finance and Governance Cluster at the Centre for Financial and Corporate integrity at Coventry University, UK. He has been working in academia for over 30 years in various universities in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Malta, Singapore, France and the UK. His teaching interests are corporate finance, financial management, portfolio management, investment and valuation, quantitative financial modelling, financial analysis, research methods and international finance.

He has published more than 40 peer reviewed articles in international journals. His research interests are risk management, stock market behaviour, banking efficiency, forecasting oil and stock prices, capital structure, credit ratings, dividend policy, M&As, Islamic banking & finance, and corporate governance. Prof. Elmasry has been as associate editor, a member of editorial boards and a reviewer for several international journals. He was guest editor in Managerial finance for three special issues.

Currently Prof. Elmasry is a member in many international associations such as the American Finance Association, Financial Management Association, European Financial Management Association, and British Accounting & Finance Association. Finally, he is a Fellow at the British Academy of Higher Education since 2006 and has been a Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE), awarded by CABS-UK since 2019.