Keryn Chalmers
Swinburne University 
The Swinburne School of Business
PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Australia
Email: kchalmers@swin.edu.au

Professor Keryn Chalmers is Dean, Swinburne Business School in the Faculty of Business and Law at Swinburne University. Prior to this appointment, she held the positions of Deputy Dean, Monash Business School at Monash University (2012-2016) and Head of Department of Accounting and Finance at Monash University (2018-2012). 

Keryn is active in several academic and professional organizations. As Vice President (Membership, formerly Education) of the International Association of Accounting Education and Research she sits as an official observer on the International Accounting Education Standards Board. Keryn is a former Australian President of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), former Vice President Monash Academic Board, and past board member of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies.  She is a senior fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and the recipient of a practitioner service award for her contributions to the Institute.  Formerly a Victorian Divisional Council member of CPA Australia, Keryn has also been a member of the CPA Australia national education accreditation board, special considerations committee and examination policy advisory committee.

Keryn’s research interests are in the financial accounting and water accounting area, specifically in relation to reporting standards, accounting policy and disclosure choices and the economic consequences of regulation. She is also the co-author of a number of successful accounting textbooks, including Accounting for Decision Making.

Katherine Schipper

E-mail: schipper@duke.edu

Katherine Schipper is the Thomas F. Keller Professor of Business Administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.  Ms. Schipper holds a BA degree from the University of Dayton, MBA, MA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago and honorary degrees from Notre Dame University, the Norwegian School of Economics, Singapore Management University and the Stockholm School of Economics.  Prior to joining Duke University’s faculty, she was a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).  She has also been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Chicago.

Ms. Schipper has published research papers in financial reporting, corporation finance and corporate governance. She is a frequent speaker on matters related to international accounting convergence, financial reporting standard setting and financial reporting quality.  She has been named the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Educator and Distinguished International Lecturer, and has been elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame.  She has served the American Accounting Association as Director of Research, as President and as President of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section.   She is or has been a member of the governing boards of a public company, a mutual fund and a not-for-profit entity.

Andrei Filip
ESSEC Business School
3 Avenue Bernard Hirsch
CS 50105
95021 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex
France
filip@essec.edu

Andrei Filip is Professor and Department Chair of the Accounting and Management Control department at ESSEC Business School. Before joining ESSEC, Andrei has been teaching financial accounting and financial analysis in Romania, Switzerland and Canada. Andrei’s main research interests are institutional settings and financial reporting quality. He has published in various international accounting journals (Contemporary Accounting Research, The International Journal of Accounting, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Corporate Finance, etc.) and he is currently an associate editor of Accounting in Europe. 

Elizabeth A. Gordon
Temple University
Fox School of Business and Management
339 Speakman Hall 
1810 N. 13th Street 
Philadelphia, PA 19122
E-mail: egordon@temple.edu
Phone: 215-204-6422
Cell: 215-470-8915

Elizabeth Gordon is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Merves Scholar at the Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University. Dr. Gordon’s research interests include international accounting and corporate governance investigating topics such as international financial reporting standards, accounting restatements, corporate communications, executive compensation, related party transactions, market development and corporate disclosure.  She has published her research in top journals in the field including the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and The Accounting Review.  She serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of International Accounting Research andThe International Journal of Accounting.  Dr. Gordon has taught courses in financial accounting and international accounting at the graduate and undergraduate levels, receiving a number of teaching awards.  Experienced in both the private and public sectors, Dr. Gordon was an auditor with Price Waterhouse and interned at the Office of Management and Budget before entering academia.  Prior to joining the Temple University, she served on the faculties at the University of Chicago and Rutgers University.  Dr. Gordon received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York,  Masters in Business Administration from Yale University and Bachelors of Science in accounting with highest distinction from Indiana University.

Sylvia Meljem

Email: smeljem@itam.mx

Sylvia Meljem is a faculty member at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), having served on its faculty since 1987, where she serves as Director of the Center for Accounting Linkage and Research, and previously as Head of the Academic Department of Accounting (1993-2013) and the Director of the Public Accounting and Financial Strategy Program (1995-2006). Sylvia received her Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Sylvia has published articles in national and international journals including The International Journal of Business Disciplines, has authored several books and co-authored Accounting of Costs and Strategy Management. She is president of the Academic Subcommittee of Corporate Governance Council and Editorial Board President of the Instituto Mexicano de Contadores Públicos, A.C. (IMCP) magazine, Contaduría Pública and Veritas.

Sylvia is a member of AAA’s AUD and MAS Sections and served on the AAA Global Engagement Committee (2012-15).  

Syvia has thirty years’ teaching experience, is a CPA, is a technical advisor for accounting issues in Mexico, is National Coordinator of Linkage at the National Association of Faculties and Schools of Accounting and Administration in Mexico, a Project Leader and the Vice President of Technical Events at the Mexican Institute of Finance Executives, and has served as Technical Advisor of The National Evaluation Center for Higher Education in Mexico (2012-16), and as a member of The International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB) (2007-12).

Sylvia has received a number of awards including the Association of Public Accountants of Mexico’s Distinguished Professor Award (2012), IMCP’s Refugio Roman Almonte Award (2011), and ITAM’s Race to the Universe and Professional Merit Award (2004).

Mark Protherough
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
London, United Kingdom
Email: mark.protherough@icaew.com

Mark Protherough is executive director, learning and professional development at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). Mark is responsible for ICAEW's learning and development work, covering qualifications including the ICAEW Chartered Accountant qualification, professional and academic education, and accountancy careers information.

He is a member of ICAEW's Assessment Committee, Learning and Professional Development Board and the Institute Board.

He is also:

• A trustee of the British Accounting and Finance Association
• A member of the Global Accounting Alliance (GAA) Education Directors Group
• A member of the Common Content Oversight Group
• A member of the Accounting and Tax Apprenticeship Trailblazer Steering Group

Prior to joining ICAEW, Mark was managing director - education, training and development at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, where he had substantial international experience. Mark has an MA (Oxon) and an MBA from Henley.

Elmar Venter

Email: elmar.venter@up.ac.za

Elmar Venter is Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is a Chartered Accountant (South Africa) and holds a PhD in Accounting from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests are the determinants and consequences of corporate reporting with a current focus on integrated reporting. He publishes in leading international journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society; The International Journal of Accounting; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Abacus; and Accounting and Finance. 

Per Olsson

ESMT Berlin
Schlossplatz 1
10178 Berlin, Germany
Email: per.olsson@esmt.org

Per Olsson is Professor of Accounting and the director of the Center for Financial Reporting and Auditing at ESMT Berlin.  He was on the faculty of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business from 2001 to 2015 and before that at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He held the Jan Wallander and Bertil Danielsson visiting professorships at the Stockholm School of Economics and the Swedish House of Finance from 2009 to 2018.

Prof. Olsson has published a large number of research papers in financial accounting, especially in the capital markets area, and he is a frequent speaker on matters related to earnings quality. He is a member of the European Accounting Association and the American Accounting Association, and he is an associate editor of Accounting and Business Research.  He serves /has served on the editorial boards of Accounting in Europe, The Accounting Review, the European Accounting Review, the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and the Review of Accounting Studies.

Sebastian Hoffmann
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Email: sebastian.hoffmann@ed.ac.uk

Sebastian Hoffmann is a Lecturer in Accounting and Director of the MSc Accounting and Finance at the University of Edinburgh Business School (UK), and a Research Professor of Accounting at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management (Germany). Since 2016, he serves as Vice President Communications on the Executive Committee of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER).

Ling-Tai Lynette Chou
National Chengchi University  
Department of Accounting
#64 Section 2 ZhiNan Road
Taipei, Taiwan 11623
Email: chou@nccu.edu.tw

Ling-Tai Lynette Chou, Professor of Accounting at National Chengchi University (NCCU), previously served as the University Dean of Student Affairs, Associate Dean of Teaching & Learning and Director of Participation Education & Research Development Office of the College of Commerce, and Chairman of the Department of Accounting. Being the former President of Taiwan Accounting Association and Vice President at-Large of International Association for Accounting Education and Research, she takes part in academic conferences and organizations regularly.

Professor Chou’s research interests include audit quality, internal control/related parties & transactions disclosures, financial reporting/management control for universities and the public sector. She has published in academic journals such as Abacus, Journal of Accounting Review, NTU Management Review, Sun Yat-Sen Management Review, Accounting Research, Educational Policy Forum, Taiwan Accounting Review, Review of Business, Management Review, Review of Securities and Futures Markets, Industry and Management Forum, etc. Her teaching cases can be found in Ivey School Publishing, Chengchi Business Case Center and other case centers.

Professor Chou is currently the Supervisor of the Institute for Information Industry and the Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan. She also serves on the Taiwan Financial Supervisory Commission’s Appeals Board of Certified Public Accountant Disciplinary Sanction, NCC Cable Radio and TV Fund Management Committee and the Government Accounting Standards Committee of DGBAS (Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics). Professor Chou was the Supervisor of Taiwan’s Public Television Service, First Financial Holding Co. and First Bank.

Professor Chou received Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (formerly National Science Council) Research Project Grants and NCCU Outstanding Faculty Service Award among other excellent teaching, service and research awards from various organizations. 

Dr. Donna L. Street
University of Dayton
Dayton, OH
dstreet1@udayton.edu

Dr. Donna L. Street is Professor, Mahrt Chair in Accounting and Chairperson, Department of Accounting at the University of Dayton. She serves as Director of Research and Educational Activities of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) and previously served as the Association’s President, VP Research and VP Communications. She coordinates the IAAER KPMG research grant program to inform the IASB. Professor Street is a member of the UNCTAD-ISAR Accounting Research Network. Previously she served as President of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association and received the section’s Outstanding International Accounting Educator Award and its Service Award. Professor Street’s research focuses primarily on international financial reporting issues including compliance and segment reporting.  

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Judy Beckman
University of Rhode Island
Email: iswim100im@uri.edu

Dr. Judy Beckman is professor of accounting and director of the Master of Science in Accounting (MSA) program at the University of Rhode Island. She earned her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. She has taught financial accounting and reporting in the undergraduate, MBA, and MSA programs, as well as introductory managerial accounting, at URI. She is a Massachusetts CPA.

Dr. Beckman undertakes research in accounting and finance based on issues in financial reporting and capital markets, both domestic and international. She was the Academic Fellow in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Office of the Chief Accountant from 2014 to 2016. Dr. Beckman has published in the Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Issues in Accounting Education, Advances in International Accounting, The Journal of Accounting Literature, and other journals. She is an editorial board member for the Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation and reviews for Issues in Accounting Education as well as other journals.  She writes a weekly electronic newsletter for Dow Jones & Co., The Wall Street Journal Accounting Weekly Review; has made numerous presentations at academic conferences; and has given invited lectures to worldwide universities and professional accounting organizations.

Dr. Beckman is a member of the American Accounting Association and is the Vice President-Academic on the Executive Committee of its International Accounting Section.  From 2007 to 2009, Dr. Beckman served as the Secretary-General to the Global U8 Consortium of Universities, an international consortium with expertise in marine affairs, ocean sciences, global logistics, and related advanced technologies. Dr. Beckman was previously the Associate Dean of the Graduate School at URI with responsibility for nearly 3,000 graduate students. During that time, she co-chaired, with James Kowalski, the University-wide, 100-member committee for the re-accreditation of the University of Rhode Island by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) in 2007. She is a past chair of the URI Faculty Senate Executive Committee and is a Fellow if the American Council on Education.

Claudio Wanderley

Email: claudio.wanderley@ufpe.br

Claudio Wanderley received his PhD in Accounting from the Management School, University of Sheffield, the UK. He is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He was also a visiting scholar at Portland State University, Erasmus University, the Netherlands and Amsterdam University, the Netherlands. He is associate editor of the Advances in Scientific and Applied Accounting Journal (the Journal of the Brazilian National Association of Graduate Programs in Accounting) and head of the management accounting stream of the São Paulo University Accounting Conference (the biggest accounting conference in Brazil). He has had a number of research projects funded by renowned organizations such as CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) and the IMA (Institute of Management Accountants). His main research interests include management accounting change, management accounting practices adaptation, identity and the management accounting profession, accounting systems in emerging economies, and public sector reforms. He has published his research in a range of highly rated academic Brazilian and international outlets (e.g. Management Accounting Research and Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies) and has presented his work at numerous international conferences.

Chrystelle Richard
Vice President and Incoming President of AFC
ESSEC Business School
Email: richard@essec.edu

Chrystelle Richard is associate professor at ESSEC Business School. Former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she holds a PhD in Management (Accounting track) and has been visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Sciences Po. She teaches financial accounting and auditing in various programs, including MSc, Specialized Masters, Executive Education and Ph.D. Her primary research interests focus on firms' oversight (financial audit, audit committees, proxy contests) and new forms of economic governance (public-private partnerships, discreet regulation of the financial industry). She has published articles on the topic of the quality of audit and financial reporting in leading academic journals such as Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, European Accounting Review, Accounting in Europe, Accounting and Business Research. She also edited, together with Isabelle Huault, Finance: The Discreet Regulator – How Financial Activities Shape and Transform the World (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). Chrystelle Richard served the Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) of the European Securities Market Authority (ESMA) and she is currently vice president of the French Accounting Association (AFC).

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Akihiro Noguchi
Nagoya University
Graduate School of Economics
Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601
Japan E-mail: noguchi@soec.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Akihiro Noguchi is a Professor of Accounting in the Graduate School of Economics at Nagoya University, where he served as a Dean during 2016-2018. He is a member of the Board of Directors and the Chairman of the International Committee of the Japan Accounting Association (2018-2021). He serves as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Accounting Education (The Official Education Journal of the IAAER).

Suleiman Salihu Aruwa
Nasarawa State University
Nigeria
Mobile: +2348034511107
Email: aruwasas@gmail.com

Prof. Suleiman Salihu Aruwa is a Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Nasarawa State University, Nigeria and the President of the Nigerian Accounting Association (NAA). He is currently the Dean of School of Postgraduate Studies at Nasarawa State University. He obtained a B.Sc Accounting, M. Sc Accounting & Finance from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and Ph.D Accounting & Finance from the Nigerian Defence Academy. He is a member of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN) and Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN). He specializes in public sector budgeting, Accounting and Finance. He is passionate about the development of wealth accounting and reporting framework.

North-West University
Business School
Private Bag X1290
Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa

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Greg Stoner
University of Glasgow
Adam Smith Business School
Email: richard@essec.edu
Email: Greg.Stoner@glasgow.ac.uk

Greg Stoner is Head of Accounting and Finance in the Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow. Greg has a PhD in accounting history and education from the University of Glasgow and is a Professor of Accounting, with primary research interests in the history of accounting, the accounting profession, accounting education and the impact and utilisation of information systems (and IT) in accounting practice and higher education.

Greg is currently Editor for Accounting, is on the editorial board of Accounting and Business Research, and was Associate Editor of Issues in Accounting Education (one of the three primary publications of the American Accounting Association) from 2010 to 2012.

Greg is Chair of the British Accounting and Finance Association Accounting Education Special Interest Group, is on the executive committee of the British Accounting and Finance Association, is Co-chair of the International Member Outreach Committee of the AAA (American Accounting Association) Teaching Learning and Curriculum Section, and ex officio member of the executive board of the IAAER, the International Association for Accounting Education and Research. Greg was a Member of the most recent QAA (The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) Benchmarking Review Groups for both Accounting & Finance (2014-2016).

Leslie Hodder
Indiana University
Kelley School of Business

Dr. Leslie Hodder, is the Conrad Prebys Endowed Professor of Accounting at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. She represents the International Association for Accounting Education and Research, and her background and experience well serve the multiple facets of the organization’s mission to promote excellence in accounting education and research, and to maximize the contribution of accounting academics to the development and maintenance of high quality, globally recognized standards of accounting practice.  Prior to joining Indiana University, Professor Hodder was on faculty at Stanford University. Her past practice experience includes time in public accounting, as well as serving as Chief Financial Officer of a publicly traded bank holding company. Professor Hodder conducts research related to financial accounting standards and concepts, emphasizing fair value reporting, accounting for financial instruments, and banking. She is a past winner of the American Accounting Association’s Wildman Award recognizing research making a significant contribution to accounting practice. Professor Hodder is a current and past Editor of The Accounting Review and past Associate Editor at Management Science.  Professor Hodder’s teaching portfolio is diverse and includes teaching financial accounting to graduate and undergraduate students. She is co-author of Intermediate Accounting, a textbook with Hanlon, Nelson, Roulstone, and Dragoo. Professor Hodder also teaches seminars in accounting research and is Chair of the Accounting Doctoral Program at the Kelley School.