Chris Figee has more than 25 years of experience in the financial sector and has served as a member of the Board of Management of KPN and Chief Financial Officer since February 2020. Chris is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Royal Schiphol Group, the Supervisory Board of De Nederlandsche Bank, the Monitoring Commission Corporate Governance Code, the Economic Board Zuid-Holland and the Supervisory Board of Glaspoort.

Jan’s research focuses on how performance metrics and targets help firms in achieving their objectives in the long run. He also examines how audits help firms to attest the credibility of their reports. His work is published in the top-tier accounting journals. Jan is department editor of accounting at Management Science and has recently established the Journal Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly together with Peter Easton, Robert Knechel and Shiva Rajgopal. He writes editorials for the Dutch national newspapers and Financial Times.

Victor Wagner is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research focuses on the evolution of the sustainability reporting environment where he employs quantitative (e.g., archival, experimental) and qualitative (e.g., interviews) methods. He co-founded the Sustainability Reporting Navigator, an open science platform for sustainability reporting. He holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from LMU Munich and was a visiting scholar at the universities of Amsterdam and Chicago.

Anya Nakhmurina is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Yale School of Management. She also holds a secondary appointment as an Associate Professor of the Environment at the Yale School of the Environment. Professor Nakhmurina studies the information environment of U.S. municipalities, with a focus on financial reporting transparency. She explores two interconnected topics: stewardship and the information roles of municipal disclosures. She is particularly interested in exploring cities’ disclosures to understand their decisions concerning climate change adaptation and mitigation. Her research has been published in prestigious journals, including Science, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Nature Communications Earth & Environment. Professor Nakhmurina is an Affiliate Fellow of the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and was a Junior Fellow of the Stigler Center during 2018–2021. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago, an MA in Economics from the New Economic School, and an MS in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Griffin’s recent publications focus on the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and firms’ responses to them. He also investigates the impact of extreme weather on company disclosures and stock returns. His latest papers show that disclosure regulation and conflicting stakeholder preferences can affect sustainability outcomes. Griffin collaborates with researchers in Asia, Europe, New Zealand, and North America. In addition to his publications, he regularly presents his work at seminars and has served as a keynote speaker at international conferences.

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.

Amir Amel-Zadeh is Associate Professor at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Amir’s research broadly investigates the capital market effects of financial and non-financial reporting and how companies’ sustainability characteristics affect investors’ asset allocation decisions. Prior to joining Saïd Business School, Amir held a position as Assistant Professor at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and prior to that worked at Lehman Brothers in London. He received his PhD in Finance from the University of Cambridge. He has taught or consulted for the financial services industry globally and was academic advisor to PanAgora Asset Management. Amir is member of the UK Endorsement Board, responsible for adopting IFRS for UK-listed companies.