Musa Mangena is a qualified Chartered Governance Professional with associate membership of ICSA: The Chartered Governance Institute. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Musa joined the Business School from the University of Essex, where he was Professor of Accounting and Head of Accounting Group. He previously was Professor of Accounting and Corporate Governance at Nottingham Trent University and Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Bradford.

Prior to becoming an academic, Musa spent many years in the banking sector where he held senior positions in different functions such as banking operations, international financial markets operations, and finance and administration. In his last role, he managed a US$75 million World Bank funded project on enterprise development in Zimbabwe, supporting small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs).

Musa is currently the Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Accounting Research and the Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies and Senior Editor of the African Accounting and Finance Journal. He is also the current Treasurer and Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the African Accounting and Finance Association.