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 Professor of Accounting and Senior 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 and The 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 PwC 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.

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, School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. 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 (2008-2012). 

Keryn is active in several academic and professional organizations. During her time on the IAAER Executive, she has been an official observer on the International Panel of Accountancy Education (and its predecessor, 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 several successful accounting textbooks, including Accounting for Decision Making.

Joanna Krasodomska
Cracow University of Economics
College of Economics, Finance and Law
Rakowicka 27
31-510 Krakow, Poland
Email: joanna.krasodomska@uek.krakow.pl
Phone: 4812-293-5299

Joanna Krasodomska is an Associate Professor at the Cracow University of Economics, Poland. She completed her PhD at Jagiellonian University.

Joanna's publications cover both financial and sustainability reporting, and her primary research interests center on stakeholder engagement, sustainability reporting and sustainability reporting assurance. Her broader interest is in how accounting research and practice can contribute to sustainable development. She has published her work in such academic journals as Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal; Accounting Education; Accounting in Europe; Journal of Applied Accounting Research; Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting; Meditari Accountancy Research; Organization and Environment; Social Responsibility Journal; Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal.

Joanna is a member of the European Accounting Association (EAA) Stakeholder Reporting Committee. She was appointed as Poland’s Representative to the EAA Board (2021-2024). She also serves as an Editorial Board Member of Accounting in Europe.

Joanna is a certified accountant and a member of the Accountants Association in Poland. She teaches various accounting courses and conducts seminars in Polish and in English (undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate levels, doctoral studies).

Leslie Hodder
Indiana University
Kelly School of Business
David Thompson Chaired Professor
Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
1310 E. 10th Street, Godfrey 2000
Bloomington, IN 47405
E-mail: lhodder@indiana.edu
Phone: 812-855-9951

Leslie Hodder is a Professor of Accounting holding the David Thompson Chair at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Prior to earning her PhD from The University of Texas at Austin, Professor Hodder worked in public accounting and as Chief Financial Officer of a publicly traded bank. Professor Hodder has taught many courses in financial accounting at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels, including Intermediate Accounting, Applied Accounting and Auditing Research, Accounting and Public Policy, Detecting Earnings Management, and Special Topics in Doctoral Research. Leslie is a co-author of Intermediate Accounting, a text published by Cambridge Publishers. Leslie’s research interests include regulation, standard setting, and financial instruments and institutions. She has published her research in top accounting journals and has completed two terms as an Editor at The Accounting Review. Leslie is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and is active in the American Accounting Association, serving as the VP of Finance and on various committees.

Sebastian Hoffmann
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Jahnallee 59
04109 Leipzig
Germany
Email: sebastian.hoffmann@hhl.de

Sebastian Hoffmann is a Research Professor of Accounting at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management (Germany). Since 2016, he serves as Vice President on the Executive Committee of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER). He is also a Senior-Vice President on the Governing Council of the International Society of Pitching Research for Responsible Science (InSPiR2eS).

Professor Hoffmann maintains an interdisciplinary research agenda in financial accounting with particular emphases on lobbying and accounting standard setting, IFRS accounting regulation and its implementation, financial reporting enforcement, compliance and accounting in historical contexts. His research is published in leading international journals, such as Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting and Business Research, Business History Review, and Critical Perspectives on Accounting.

Cătălin Albu
Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Faculty of Accounting and Management Information Systems
Piata Romana 6-8
010374 Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: catalin.albu@cig.ase.ro 

Cătălin Albu is Professor of Accounting with the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. His research and teaching areas relate to the implementation of western-inspired techniques in emerging economies. Cătălin’s research has been recently published in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Accounting Forum and Accounting and Business Research, among others. Cătălin is Associate Editor of the Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation and member of the editorial board of Accounting Forum.

Patrick E. Hopkins
Kelly School of Business
Indiana University
1275 E. 10th Street, CG 3003
Bloomington, IN 47405-1701
E-mail: peh@indiana.edu

Patrick E. Hopkins is Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business where he is also the Conrad Prebys Professor.  He received his B.S. and M.Acc. from the University of Florida and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.  Professor Hopkins has been at IU since 1995, where he has taught in the undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs.  His research has appeared in top accounting journals, including The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting Organizations and Society.  He is the past winner of the American Accounting Association’s Distinguished Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award, the AAA’s Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award, AAA’s Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Best Research Paper Award, the Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, the Kelley School of Business Innovative Teaching Award, and the Kelley School of Business Outstanding Research Award.  Professor Hopkins has also won each of the top teaching awards in the Kelley School of Business. Professor Hopkins served on the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council during 2012-2016. He also served as Chair of Graduate Accounting Programs at the Kelley School of Business during 2014-2020 and Chair of the Undergraduate Program at the Kelley School of Business during 2020-2022.

Elmar R. Venter
University of Pretoria
Department of Accounting 
Room 40, Level 2, EMS Building
Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, South Africa
E-mail: elmar.venter@up.ac.za

Elmar R. Venter is 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 sustainability reporting. His work is published 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. 

Themin Suwardy
Singapore Management University
School of Accountancy
60 Stamford Road
Singapore 178900
E-mail: tsuwardy@smu.edu.sg
Phone: 65-6828-0399

Associate Professor (Practice) Themin Suwardy is the Associate Provost for Postgraduate Professional (PGP) Education since 2021. His PGP responsibilities include academic governance and policies, institutional marketing and outreach, and student experience and development. Themin joined SMU in 2001 and has served as Associate Dean at the School of Accountancy (2002-2013), founding director of Master of Professional Accounting (2006-2016) and Dean, Postgraduate Professional Programmes (2016-2021). Themin is a regular contributor to professional and regulatory bodies, industry and media on matters related to financial reporting, corporate governance and accounting education. He has received numerous SMU and international teaching awards, as well as Public Administration Medal (Bronze), CPA Australia’s Lifetime Achievement Award, CEEMAN’s Champion Award and IBM Faculty Award. He is also the Chair-elect of Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), Vice Chair of SATA CommHealth, and a member of the Ministry of Finance’s Goods and Services Tax Board of Review.

Donna L. Street
University of Dayton
300 College Park
USA
Email: dstreet1@udayton.edu
Phone: 937-229-2461

Dr. Donna L. Street is Professor and Mahrt Chair in Accounting in the Department of Accounting at the University of Dayton. She serves as the 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 and IAAER's collaborations with the IASB, IAASB and ACCA.  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.  

Sharon Machado
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Policy and Insights
The Adelphi
1-11 John Adam Street
London
WC2N 6AU
E-mail: sharon.machado@accaglobal.com
Phone: +44-20-7059-5628

Sharon is the head of sustainable business within ACCA’s Policy and Insights team. Sharon and her team generate future looking thought leadership research and influence policy relating to the technical domains of sustainable finance, ethics, governance, risk, corporate reporting, tax, business law, audit and assurance.  This work has the aim of driving better business through the role of professional accountants.

Education enabling the conversion of technical knowledge into action is vital, and Sharon regularly incorporates this into her own work and that of the team. Her passion for education was gained from preparing students for the technical and professional demands of accountancy qualifications, which she did prior to joining ACCA in 2008. Since joining ACCA, her roles have also included shaping the ACCA Qualification and its digital transformation. 

David Bond
University of Technology Sydney
UTS Business School
15 Broadway
Ultimo, NSW
Sydney, Australia
E-mail: david.bond@uts.edu.au

David Bond is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Accounting Discipline Group and Director Master of Business Analytics at the UTS Business School. He has published in journals including British Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and Accounting & Finance, and is currently a Deputy Editor on Accounting & Finance and Associate Editor on Accounting Education.

He is currently on the Board for the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, Women Sport Australia and Sydney Rugby Union. In addition, he is a Vice President At-Large for the International Association for Accounting Education & Research, a member of ACCA’s Education Global Forum and on the Australian National Sport Research Agenda Advisory Group. He has previously held the position of Academic Fellow at the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation in London.

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.

Luc Paugam
HEC Paris
1 Rue de la Libération
78350 Jouy-en-Josas
Paris, France
E-mail: paugam@hec.fr

Luc Paugam is Associate Professor at HEC Paris. He holds a Ph.D. in financial accounting and a MSc in Finance from Université Paris Dauphine. Luc is a former student of ENS Paris-Saclay and a CFA charterholder. His research focuses on issues surrounding financial reporting of M&As (goodwill, intangible assets), corporate whistleblowing, CSR, and bank reporting. Luc has published in several academic journals including Accounting, Organizations & Society, Abacus, Comptabilité Contrôle Audit, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Law, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, and Strategic Management Journal. Books co-authored by Luc include Brand Valuation (Routledge), Evaluat ion Financière et Normes IFRS (Economica) and Evaluatio n Financière de la Marque (Economica). Luc teaches financial accounting in the Grande Ecole and MBA programs. Prior to joining HEC Paris, Luc has been a consultant in corporate finance, an associate professor at ESSEC Business School and a visiting scholar at the University of Houston. Luc is an associate editor of European Accounting Review and a board member of the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Accounting and Business Research, Accounting in Europe, Accounting Forum and a member of CFA France. He received the ESSEC foundation teaching award in 2016.

Yanira Petrides
ITAM
Río Hondo 1
01080, Mexico City, Mexico
E-mail: petrides@itam.mx

Yanira Petrides is Full Time Professor and Director of the Master in Accounting Program at Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM). She is a public accountant graduated from ITAM with a Masters in Accounting from Florida International University and PhD in Accounting from the University of Exeter.

Yanira maintains an interdisciplinary research agenda in Financial Accounting with particular emphases on Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting. She has published in  Int. J. Banking, Accounting and Finance (2020), Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management (2017), Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation (2016), Research in Accounting Regulation (2012), and International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (2012). She has been revisor invited at Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal (2017).

Yanira is affiliated at the Association of Public Accountants of Mexico and active member at the ESG committee on the Mexican Council for financial reporting standards.

Cagnur (Kaytmaz) Balsari
Dokuz Eylul University
Faculty of Business
Tınaztepe Yerleşkesi Buca 35390 Izmir
Turkey
E-mail: cagnur.kaytmaz@deu.edu.tr

Prof. Dr. Cagnur (Kaytmaz) Balsari was born in 1971 in Izmir, Turkey. She completed her undergraduate education at Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Business Administration, then continued her Master's studies at Loyola University of Chicago and obtained her Doctoral degree from Boston University in 2004. Prof. Dr. Balsari is currently working at Dokuz Eylul University as the Dean of the Faculty of Business.

She has served as the academic advisor of the Izmir Chamber of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the International Financial Reporting advisory committee of the Turkish Public Oversight Agency. Prof. Dr. Balsari has worked with the accounting profession extensively in IFRS, IFRS for SMEs and Accounting Ethics areas as an advisor and trainer in Turkey. She has also served as the president of Turkish Accounting Academicians' Collaboration and Research Foundation.

Rolien Kunz
University of Pretoria
Department of Auditing
EMS Building, Level 4, Room 90
Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, South Africa
E-mail: rolien.kunz@up.ac.za

Rolien Kunz is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Auditing at the University of Pretoria. She is Chartered Accountant (South Africa). Rolien has lectured at a number of higher education institutions at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level and acted as external examiner for various higher education institutions. She is a co-author of a widely prescribed South African auditing text book and the co-editor of the accompanying question book. Her research interest includes accounting education as well as the use of developing information technology in auditing. Rolien has published a number of articles in both South African and international journals.

Makoto Nakano
Hitotsubashi University Business School
Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Nakano is Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University. He is a Board Member and the Chairman of the International Committee of the Japan Accounting Association (2021-2024). He has published in various international journals such as Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR), Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics (APJAE) and Applied Financial Economics. He served as a Visiting Scholar at Bank of Japan.

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

Ling-Tai Lynette Chou, currently Emeritus Professor of Accounting at National Chengchi University (NCCU), was a Professor at the Accounting Department, and also 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. She was the former President of Taiwan Accounting Association and Vice President - Education of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research. Professor Chou got her Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in Accounting from University of Houston. She published mainly in the auditing area in journals such as Abacus,Taiwan Accounting Review,Journal of Accounting Review,NTU Management Review and the CPA Journal. 

Professor Chou is the Chair of the Board of Directors for Christ’s College Taipei and the Supervisor of Radio Taiwan International. In addition to serving as an independent director for listed companies, Professor Chou was the Supervisor of the Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan and the Executive Supervisor of Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation.

Ann Tarca
International Accounting Standards Board
Board member
Columbus Building
7 Westferry Circus
London E14 4HD, UK
E-mail: atarca@ifrs.org

Ann Tarca joined the International Accounting Standards Board from the University of Western Australia’s Business School, where she was an accounting teacher and researcher since 1996 and a professor since 2011.

Professor Tarca served as a member of the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) from 2014 to 2017 and was research director for the AASB from February 2017. She was an academic fellow of the IFRS Foundation from 2011 to 2012. She has authored a text book on accounting and written a wide range of research papers related to IFRS Standards, for which she has received many awards. Professor Tarca is an active member of the international accounting academic community, having served on several boards and committees.

She qualified as a chartered accountant in 1985 and has a PhD in accounting from the University of Western Australia.

Greg Stoner
University of Glasgow
Adam Smith Business School (Accounting & Finance)
University Avenue
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
E-mail: Greg.Stoner@Glasgow.ac.uk

Greg Stoner is Professor of Accounting in the Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow. Greg was Head of Accounting and Finance 2019-2021. Greg has a PhD in accounting history and education from the University of Glasgow and his primary research interests are 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 and is on the editorial board of Accounting and Business Research. Previously Greg was an Associate Editor of Issues in Accounting Education (one of the three primary publications of the American Accounting Association).

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

Ioannis Tsalavoutas
University of Glasgow
Adam Smith Business School
Room 683, ASBS South, Gilbert Scott Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
E-mail: Ioannis.Tsalavoutas@glasgow. ac.uk

Ioannis Tsalavoutas is a professor of accounting and founder of the Adam Smith Observatory of Corporate Reporting Practices at the University of Glasgow. His main area of expertise is financial accounting and reporting: in particular, investigating companies’ reporting practices under IFRS across different jurisdictions, along with any economic consequences that may arise from divergence in practice. His research has been published in international journals such as Accounting and Business Research, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, The British Accounting Review, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Ioannis is one of the authors of the book International Corporate Reporting: Global and Diverse [5th ed.] and co-Editor of The Routledge Companion to Accounting in Emerging Economies. Ioannis' work experience includes positions as an accounting assistant (in Greece) and as a financial accounting and reporting analyst at Company Reporting Ltd in Edinburgh.