Professor Easton’s expertise in accounting and valuation is widely recognized by the academic research community and by the legal community. Professor Easton has been qualified as an expert witness in the Delaware Chancery Court and he has consulted on valuation issues for investment firms and accounting firms in Australia, the UK, and the USA.

Professor Easton holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. He holds a graduate degree from the University of New England and a PhD in Business Administration (majoring in accounting and finance) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Easton’s research on corporate valuation has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Professor Easton has served as an Associate Editor for 11 leading accounting journals and is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. He is an Editor of the Review of Accounting Studies.

Professor Easton has held appointments at the University of Chicago, the University of California at Berkeley, Ohio State University, Macquarie University, the Australian Graduate School of Management, the University of Melbourne, and Nyenrode University. He is a member of the Scientific Council of CentER, Tilburg University and is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching and in research. Professor Easton regularly teaches accounting analysis and security valuation to MBAs.

He, together with John Wilde, Mary Lea McAnally, and Robert Halsey, is author of “Financial Accounting for MBAs,” now in its sixth publication; “Financial & Managerial Accounting for MBAs,” authored with Robert Halsey, Mary Lea McAnally, Al Hartgraves and Wayne Morse is in its fourth edition; “Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation,” authored with Mary Lea McAnally, Patricia Fairfield, Xiao-Jun Zhang and Robert Halsey is currently in its third edition; and “Estimating the Cost of Capital Implied by Market Prices and Accounting Data,” was published in Foundations and Trends in Accounting in 2009. He is one of the founding editors of Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly.

Andrew Jones, PhD, is a Principal Researcher at The Conference Board Governance & Sustainability Center, where he leads research and thought leadership on corporate governance, sustainability, and corporate citizenship. His work focuses in particular on AI governance and oversight, sustainability and disclosure trends, board governance and effectiveness, DEI and corporate citizenship, and the wider legal, regulatory, and political shifts shaping how companies respond. He regularly advises senior executives and their teams, moderates and speaks at internal and external events, and comments in leading media outlets.

Wim Bartels works in sustainability reporting and assurance since 2003. He is currently a partner with Deloitte for their European organisation. He has worked with over 50 multinational, listed companies across Europe and has worked globally. Over the past years he has focused on serving global clients in implementing reporting regulations, conducting materiality assessments and assessing the strategic implications. Wim has been a member of the Task force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures since its in inception in 2016 till December 2021. Currently he serves as the Chair of the Sustainability Policy Group of Accountancy Europe. He is a member of the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Board.

Rebekah Smith leads IBM’s Global Regulatory Compliance team, which manages a process for monitoring emerging regulations, conducting scoping assessments, legal analysis and supporting compliance readiness for emerging laws that broadly impact IBM. The team covers Privacy, AI and Data Governance, Cybersecurity, and ESG regulations. Rebekah has 20 years experience in EU public affairs and advocacy, with specific expertise on workforce and ESG topics. Before joining IBM, she was Deputy Director for Social Affairs for the most prominent EU business association, BusinessEurope. Previously she was Policy and Communications Manager for smallbusinesseurope, a consultancy supporting UK small businesses with EU intelligence and advocacy. She has a joint Masters Degree in European Studies from Hull University in the UK and Osnabrueck University in Germany.

Paolo Perego is Professor of Accounting and Program Director of the MSc Accounting & Finance at the Free University of Bolzano (Italy). He is a graduate of Bocconi University and EPFL, and he received his Ph.D. at Radboud University Nijmegen (NL).His research and teaching interests include managerial accounting, performance measurement and control systems, sustainability accounting and assurance, and Integrated Reporting. He has published, among others, in Accounting, Organizations and Society, European Accounting Review, Auditing: a Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Management Studies. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.

Karthik Ramanna is Professor of Business and Public Policy at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and a fellow at St John’s College. He teaches at the Blavatnik School on managing organisations in polarised times, which led to his 2024 book The Age of Outrage. An expert on business-government relations, sustainable capitalism, and corporate reporting and auditing, Professor Ramanna studies how organisations and leaders build trust with stakeholders. His scholarship has won numerous awards, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics Best Paper Prize, the Harvard Business Review McKinsey Award for “groundbreaking management thinking,” and three times the international Case Centre’s prizes for “outstanding case-writing,” dubbed by the Financial Times as “the business school Oscars.” Professor Ramanna established the Case Centre on Public Leadership and the Transformational Leadership Fellowship at the School, the latter a bespoke, by-invitation programme for senior leaders looking to reimagine their public-service impact. In 2022, he co-founded the non-profit E-liability Institute, where he serves as principal investigator, with a mission to drive decarbonisation processes through rigorous GHG accounting. From 2016 to 2023, he was director of the Blavatnik School’s Master of Public Policy programme that has educated over a thousand public leaders from about 120 countries. From July 2023 to April 2025, Professor Ramanna was on partial public-service leave from Oxford to advise the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, an “auditor of auditors” in global markets. Previously, Professor Ramanna taught at the Harvard Business School in both the MBA and senior executive-education programmes. He has a doctorate from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He lives in Oxford with his husband, Jon, and they enjoy dinner parties and touring Caravaggios.