Jane Andrew
Professor
Jane Andrew
Professor
Jane Andrew is professor of accounting at the University of Sydney (Australia). She has a particular interest in the relationship between accounting information and public policy and has written extensively on public accountability, carbon accounting, immigration detention, prison privatisation and whistleblowing. The policy relevance of her work means she is often called upon to contribute to discussions of public policy at the State and Federal level. All of Jane’s work has considered the impact of accounting on issues of equity, justice and wellbeing within the context of neoliberalism. In 2016, Jane released a report titled Prison Privatisation in Australia: The State of the Nation providing the first comprehensive review of the costs, performance and accountability of Australian private prisons. Jane was appointed co-editor-in-chief for Critical Perspectives on Accounting in 2018. The journal is the leading international journal dedicated to exploring the link between accounting practices and the many allocative, distributive, social and ecological problems of our era. Jane is also an Associate Editor forAbacus and is a member of the Editorial Board’s for Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, Advances in Public Interest Accounting and Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal. She is also a member of CPA Australia, The Sydney Institute of Criminology and The Imprisonment Observatory.
Garry Carnegie
Professor
Garry Carnegie
Professor
Garry became an Emeritus Professor of RMIT University on 1 January 2018, having served as Head, School of Accounting and Professor of Accounting at RMIT from 2010 to 2017. Subsequently, he was Education Advisor at CPA Australia for a period of 18 months.
He publishes in a diversity of fields, comprising accounting, accounting history, archaeology, economic history, companies and securities law, management history, museum management, and public administration. His research is concerned with accounting, accountability and governance in both contemporary and historical contexts. Together with Christopher J. Napier of Royal Holloway, University of London, he is a co-editor of, and contributor to, the EE Handbook of Accounting, Accountability and Governance.
Prior to joining academe, Garry gained experience in the IT industry, professional accounting services and in the financial services industry. He has held other professorial posts in accounting since 1994 at Deakin University, Melbourne University Private/The University of Melbourne and University of Ballarat (now Federation University Australia). In 1993, he become an Editorial Board member of AAAJ, and become an Associate Editor in 2013. Across a continuous period of 25 years (1995 to 2019), he served as Editor/Joint Editor of Accounting History and, in 2020, was Consulting Editor.
In 2020, he received the Academy of Accounting Historians Hourglass Award and, in 2021, an AFAANZ Life Membership Award. In 2019, he was admitted as a member of the AAAJ Accounting Research Hall of Fame. He is a member of both CPA Australia and CA ANZ.
David Cooper
Professor
David Cooper
Professor
David Cooper obtained a BSc (Econ) from LSE, a PhD from Manchester and has received three Honorary Doctorates and several other academic awards. He held academic positions at Manchester University, University of British Columbia, University of Est Anglia and UMIST, before joining the University of Alberta in 1989. He is now Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Visiting Professor at Edinburgh University Business School. David has written or edited nine books and over eighty academic articles and chapters. He remains a Consulting Editor of Critical Perspectives on Accounting, a journal he co-founded, and at Accounting, Organizations and Society.
Much of his research has been on critical management control and on the accounting profession and regulation. This work has focused on management control and globalization, performance measurement systems in health care, governments, multinationals, and in non-governmental organizations. He has had a long-term interest in accounting regulation, professional organizations, standard setting bodies and the management of professional firms. Throughout his career, David has been active in doctoral education and encouraging critical accounting scholarship. He continues to work with former doctoral students on performance measurement in NGOs, the transnational regulation of corporate disclosure rules, and accountability of extractive industries. He is active in progressive politics, on the Board of the Alberta Liabilities Disclosure Project, and forging divestment strategies for universities and pension plans.
Elbano de Nuccio
Professor
Elbano de Nuccio
Professor
President of the Consiglio Nazionale dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili since 1 June 2022, Elbano de Nuccio is currently Professor in Business Administration at the Department of Management, Finance and Technology of the LUM University, Giuseppe Degennaro.
Born in Naples on 18 February 1970, he graduated in Economics and Business at the Bari University in 1992.
Since 1993, he is registered with the Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili of Bari and with the Roll of Technical Consultants of the Court of Bari, while he is member of the Roll of Experts of the same court since 1996.
He provides consultancy in tax, bankruptcy, and company law, as well as in tax disputes and international taxation.
He has served in institutional roles in various professional organizations:
• President of the Consiglio dell’Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili of Bari (2017
- 2022),
• Member of CNDCEC Public Entities Commission and lecturer for the Istituto di Ricerca dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili,
• Scientific director of both the Observatory on Corporate Crisis Management and the second level Master’s degree “The new Code of Corporate Crisis and Insolvency” at the LUM University Giuseppe Degennaro
• Member of the IFAC Board and the Edinburgh Group Board, as well as member of the Organismo italiano di contabilità (OIC)
• Member of the Comitato dei garanti dell’OIV, Organismo Italiano di Valutazione (the Italian Valuation Authority)
• Member of scientific committees in national and international journals
Charl de Villiers
Professor
Charl de Villiers
Professor
Charl de Villiers is Professor of Accounting at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is internationally known for his Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting research and expertise. Charl is also an adjunct professor at the University of Cape Town, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape, in South Africa; and Universiti Teknologi Mara, in Malaysia.
Charl has over 400 research based publications and presentations, including more than 100 articles in refereed journals, and two Routledge published edited books, namely Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting (2018), and The Routledge Handbook of Integrated Reporting (2020). He has published in Accounting, Organisations and Society; Journal of Management; Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; British Accounting Review; and European Accounting Review, among other journals. As an indication of impact, his research has been cited more than 10,000 times and his h-index is over 50, i.e. 50+ of his research publications have been cited 50+ times. A Stanford University study ranks Charl 49th among the 4,377 accounting academics globally, based on citations during 2021, also placing him in the top 2% of scientists worldwide. In 2022, he was inducted into the AAAJ/APIRA Hall of Fame, which has a small and exclusive membership (currently 26), for outstanding contributions to the interdisciplinary accounting research community. Charl serves on the editorial board of 10 academic journals, including Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; British Accounting Review; and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. He is editor-in-chief of Meditari Accountancy Research and deputy editor of Accounting & Finance.
Alessandro Lai
Professor
Alessandro Lai
Professor
Alessandro Lai is Professor of Accounting at the University of Verona, Italy. He obtained the Ph.D. in Business Administration at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice in 1987. Then, he served as Lecturer at the Catholic University of Milan and as Associated Professor at the University of Milan before reaching the University of Verona, where he is responsible for teaching Financial Accounting (Bachelor’s degree), Corporate Governance (Master’s degree) and Qualitative Research Methods and Classics in Accounting (PhD, universities of Udine and Verona). His recent research focuses on integrated and sustainability accounting and reporting, accountability, corporate governance and accounting history, adopting a critical/interpretative lens. He serves on the editorial boards of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Meditari Accountancy Research and Accounting History (where he is also member of the Editorial Advisory Board), having acted also as guest editor. He is also a member of the editorial board of some Italian journals and series. He published in various international journals, and he is also the author of some monographs. He is the President of the O.I.B.R. Foundation (Italian Business Reporting Organisation), member of some Italian Academies, and the scientific coordinator of the Sustainability Observatory of the Italian CNDCEC (the Italian Certified Public Accountants). He has coordinated and participated in several research projects financed at the local, national, and international levels.
Warren Maroun
Professor
Warren Maroun
Professor
Warren Maroun is a Professor of Accounting and Auditing at the University of the Witwatersrand's School of Accountancy (South Africa). He joined the IAASB's Board in January 2022 having been nominated by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. Prior to joining the Board, Mr. Maroun consulted widely on matters related to financial accounting, auditing and integrated reporting. He also serves as the editor of Meditari Accountancy Research and is an Associate Editor of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. Before joining academia, Mr. Maroun served in different capacities at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has served on different task forces, working groups and committees for the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa, the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors and the Chartered Governance Institute of Southern Africa. Prof. Maroun has published several books and book chapters and is an author on numerous academic papers dealing with technical and theoretical developments in corporate reporting and assurance. He is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Warren earned his Masters of Accountancy from the University of the Witwatersrand and a PhD from Kings’ College London.
Christopher Napier
Professor
Christopher Napier
Professor
Christopher Napier is Professor of Accounting at Royal Holloway University of London. After studying Mathematics and Philosophy at Oxford University, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG) in London. He began his academic career in 1979 as a Lecturer in Accounting at the London School of Economics, moving to the University of Southampton as Professor of Accounting in 1996 and to Royal Holloway in 2006.
Christopher’s research has covered a range of areas, including areas of financial reporting such as intangibles, retirement benefits and revenue, accounting history, the relationship of accounting and law, Islamic accounting, the stereotype of the accountant, sustainability reporting and governance. Over the last 30 years, Christopher has worked with Garry Carnegie in helping to set the agenda for critical and interpretive accounting history, and their collaboration has extended to co-editing the Handbook of Accounting, Accountability and Governance, due for publication in September 2023. This book contains over 20 chapters by leading international scholars examining the interrelationships between accountability and governance and how they are underpinned by accounting.
Christopher was honoured in 2018 with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Accounting and Finance Association. He served on the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and is a Liveryman of the Chartered Accountants Livery Company and a Freeman of the City of London.
Riccardo Stacchezzini
Professor
Riccardo Stacchezzini
Professor
Riccardo Stacchezzini is Professor of Accounting at Verona University, Italy. He obtained the Ph.D. in Business Administration at the University of Ca’ Foscari of Venice, and has been a visiting professor at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia (UK). He is currently the coordinator for the Master's Degree Course in "Corporate Governance and business administration”. His research activity focuses on the exploration of accounting, reporting, accountability tools and practices, mainly from a critical-interpretative perspective. His main research areas are: Integrated and sustainability reporting; Financial and sustainability reporting standards; Corporate governance and accountability mechanisms; Accounting history. He published in various international journals, and he is also the author of four scientific monographs. He is a member of the Editorial Board of "Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal", "Accounting History" and of "Meditari Accountancy Research". He is a member of the Stakeholder Reporting Committee of the European Accounting Association (EAA), of the steering committee of the Italian Society of the History of Accounting (SISR), of the scientific committee of the Italian Business Reporting Organization (OIBR), and of the sustainability standard committee of the Italian Standard Setter (OIC). He has coordinated and participated in several research projects financed at the local, national, and international levels.