Prem Lal Joshi is an Indian educationalist, scholar, author and writer for over four decades and has worked in several countries. He has worked as a Professor of Accounting (2013–19) at the Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia. He has also been chairman of the Center for Excellence in Business Performance (CEBP) for three years. He was a Professor of Accounting at the University of Bahrain (1993-2012), Kingdom of Bahrain. Prior to that, he worked as an Associate and Assistant Professor at National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai (1984-1993), Visiting Associate Professor at Bilkent University (1989–90). He was a Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi (2019-2021) to conduct research in the Internal auditing area.