NYU Stern in London: Around the Table with Visiting Professor Amal Shehata

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Date

Location

Soho House, Small Sitting Room | 76 Dean Street, London W1D 3SQ

NYU Stern is pleased to invite you to a London gathering from our Around the Table faculty dinner series—an evening designed for connection, conversation, and community.

Join Professor Amal Shehata, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Accounting, for a thoughtfully curated dinner with fellow Stern undergraduate alumni. While visiting London on business, Professor Shehata is delighted to spend time with alumni in an intimate setting, sharing ideas and reconnecting over a shared meal.

Throughout the evening, Professor Shehata will offer perspectives from her work with genAI initiatives at NYU, blockchain, financial accounting and auditing, along with updates from Stern. With a small group and a relaxed atmosphere, the dinner is intended to encourage meaningful dialogue and easy conversation.

Please note:

  • Attendance is limited to 9 alumni to preserve the intimate nature of the evening.
  • Dinner will include three courses from a pre-set menu. Kindly indicate any dietary preferences when registering.
  • Registration is $50.00

This dinner series is open exclusively to alumni of Stern’s undergraduate program. If you have questions about eligibility, please contact Laura Stern, Director of Alumni Relations, at laura.stern@stern.nyu.edu.

Professor Amal Shehata: As the recipient of the 2021 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2018 Stern Distinguished Teaching Award and named "Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors" by Poets & Quants, Professor Amal Shehata is passionate about teaching. In 2025, she was also awarded the honorific title "Distinguished Clinical Professor of Accounting." Professor Shehata joined New York University Stern School of Business as a full-time faculty member in September 2015, after having been an adjunct professor at the School since 2008. She serves as Academic Director of the BS/MS Dual Degree CPA Program at Stern. Professor Shehata teaches residential and online courses in Financial Accounting and Auditing in the undergraduate and graduate schools. She has recently created a new course, Accounting and the Blockchain, for which she was awarded the NYU Curricular Development Grant.

Professor Shehata began her career in public accounting as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Washington D.C. During her 11 years at PwC, she worked in several divisions, including Assurance, Internal Firm Services and the Office of the Vice-Chairman. After leaving PwC, she worked as Director of Sales and Operations for a privately held company. She is a Certified Public Accountant.

She received her B.S. in Business Administration and her M.S. in Accounting from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Courses Taught

  • Accounting and the Blockchain

  • Auditing

  • Financial Accounting

Academic Background

M.S., Accounting
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

B.S., Business Administration
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill