Matthew Lamport is a senior lecturer at the University of Mauritius and  holds a Masters in Finance from the University of Mauritius.  He has been a full time academic in the Department of Finance and Accounting at the University of Mauritius for the past 17 years during which he was the head of the Department of Finance and Accounting for an aggregate period of 4 years.

He is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).  Mr Lamport specialises in teaching financial reporting, management accounting and financial management to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Mauritius. His research interests include quality of financial reporting, usefulness of annual reports to users, corporate governance, integrated reporting, relevance of accounting metrics in explaining movements in stock prices and capital structure.

Matthew Lamport is also a member of the Financial Reporting Council  in Mauritius and the SEM-10 Index Management Committee.