Shan Wang holds Fellow membership with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), with more than 10 years experience of working in the Charities sector as a business partner, senior financial accountant, and tax accountant.  Throughout her professional career, Shan has worked with charities in the higher education, construction, childcare, and vocational education sectors. She is currently completing her Ph.D. study at CEEDR, Middlesex University. Her research focuses on the effectiveness of Social Investment Tax Relief in helping social enterprises' in raising finances during the start-up stage.  ​Shan also has many years of teaching and lecturing experience in financial project management, accounting information systems, finance, and taxation. She is the Programme Leader of the BA (Hons) Business Accounting Programme at Middlesex University.

Richard qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co. He specialised in taxation from the outset, focusing in particular on the interaction of UK and overseas taxation. He was Director of Tax Training for the firm before setting up his own consultancy to provide specialist tax advice to small and medium-sized firms of accountants. Richard sold the business to a listed training company and achieved his ambition of early retirement. However, this was shortlived and a second career beckoned in the form of risk analytics for an international bank. This involved the development of programmes in London, New York and Istanbul. Richard returned to his roots in taxation as module leader at Middlesex. He is currently associate professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance where he leads the taxation team and also teaches professional ethics. Despite a second attempt at retirement, he could not resist the lure of enterprise - he is currently engaged in the management of a real estate business in the US. In his spare time, he tries to play the saxophone and has made countless unsuccessful attempts to learn Chinese.