Irene Nalukenge 
Makerere University Business School
Plot 21A Port bell Road, Nakawa
Email: inalukenge@mubs.ac.ug 
Phone contact: +256782847150

Irene is an Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Makerere University Business School, Uganda. Her research focuses on corporate governance, accounting standards, ethics, with her work published in several international journals.

Irene holds an ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and CPA (U) qualification. Irene is a resourceful person at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants Uganda (ICPAU), regional representative of African Accounting & Finance Association for the East African region and also serves on multiple boards.

Yaowen Shan
UTS Business School
University of Technology Sydney
PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW, Australia 2007
E-mail: yaowen.shan@uts.edu.au
 
Yaowen Shan is a Professor in the Department of Accounting at the University of Technology Sydney. He currently serves as a Director of the Board of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ). His research examines the role of accounting and non-accounting information in capital market regulation, corporate governance, financial reporting and executive compensation. His work has been published in top-tier accounting journals such as The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, as well as in leading local journals.

Yaowen is also co-editor-in-chief of Australian Accounting Review, and associate editor of Accounting and Finance and Australian Journal of Management. He has won several best paper awards at leading international accounting and finance conferences and has received numerous national competitive grants totalling over AUD$1.7 million.

R. P. Banerjee

Indian Accounting Association Research Foundation
Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management (EIILM)- Kolkata
rpbeiilm@gmail.com

Ajay Adhikari
American University
Kogod School of Business
Washington DC, USA
E-mail: aadhika@american.edu

Ajay Adhikari is Professor of Accounting at the Kogod School of Business, American University.  He previously served as Sr. Associate Dean of Research and Faculty at the school.  His research and teaching interests lie in the areas of international and sustainability accounting. He has served as the Annual Program Chair for the American Accounting Association and as President of its International Accounting Section. He is a recipient of the Section’s Ian Hague Outstanding Service Award.

Professor Adhikari has been an EEC Fellow at the Danish Summer Research Institute, Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Kuwait University, a Visiting Professor at Chuo University, Japan, and a Visiting Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, China.  Professor Adhikari received his Ph.D. and MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University and Bachelor of Arts from St. Stephens College, Delhi University.

Tomomi Takada
Kobe University
Graduate School of Business Administration
2-1 Rokkodai, Nada
Kobe 657-8501, Japan
E-mail: takada@pearl.kobe-u.ac.jp

Tomomi Takada is Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University. She is a Board Member and the Vice-chairman of the International Committee of the Japan Accounting Association (2025-2027).

She has published in various international journals such as Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Corporate Governance: An International Review. She currently holds a cross-appointment with the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (JICPA).

Tracy Beck

Chia-Ling Lee

Taiwan Accounting

National Chengchi University.
leecl@nccu.edu.tw

Changjiang Wang

Lindner College of Business,

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221

E-mail: Wang2cj@ucmail.uc.edu

Changjiang (John) Wang is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Cincinnati. He is actively involved in international accounting communities and currently serves as Vice President–Academic of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association.

His research focuses on corporate disclosure and financial reporting quality, accounting standards, and international accounting. His scholarly work has been published in leading academic journals, including Accounting Horizons, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of International Accounting Research, Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting, and Review of Accounting Studies. His work contributes to the understanding of how accounting information and regulatory frameworks shape global capital markets.