Head of department and associate professor at NHH Norwegian School of Economics.
Co-head of the research center Digital Auditing at NHH. Chair of EAA conference in Bergen 2022.
MBA, CPA and PhD from NHH. Auditor and consultant for 25+ years in McKinsey, Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young (EY). Have held several positions as a partner in Arthur Andersen and EY, including head of Nordic auditing practice in EY. Auditor for several of the largest firms in Norway; including Equinor.

Roger Simnett is an Emeritus Professor at UNSW Sydney and a Professorial Research Fellow at Deakin University. He was previously a member of the IAASB (2019-2021) and the Chair and CEO of the Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (2017-2020). He. He has over 25 years background in international standard setting, including being a member of the task force that developed the international integrated reporting framework and co-chairing the IAASB standard on assurance of greenhouse gases. A leading international auditing/assurance researcher with publications in the top accounting and auditing journals, in 2018 he was awarded the Order of Australia for service to the accounting profession and education.

Paul Griffin is an international authority on accounting, financial information, and disclosure.

He has published over 80 articles in leading accounting and finance journals, five research monographs for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and two case books on U.S. corporate financial reporting. His research has had a substantial impact on the profession.

Thomas Kamei is an investor for Counterpoint Global. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2012 and has ten years of investment experience. Thomas leads the Sustainability Research integration strategy for the US based funds managed by the team. He was a Fellow at The Aspen Institute in 2015 where he developed a proprietary process to quantify executive compensation alignment. Prior to his current role, Thomas worked with Counterpoint Global for two years as an intern. Previously, he was a research intern at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers where he analyzed late stage private technology businesses for the Green Technology Growth Fund. Thomas received a B.S. in architectural studies from the University of Southern California.

Satyam Khanna is the SIEPR Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He joined Stanford after serving as the SEC’s Senior Policy Advisor for Climate & ESG, the agency’s first-ever official dedicated to integrating ESG considerations into the federal securities laws, under Acting Chair Allison Lee. Previously he was Counsel to SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson and on the staff of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the U.S. Treasury Department. He received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and his J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Jan Bouwens is full professor of accounting at the University of Amsterdam and is research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

In his studies he tries to speak to the question of whether, how, and under what conditions accounting affects decision making of investors and managers. He collects archival and survey data from individual firms to examine the working of accounting and control systems in these firms to examine his research questions. He currently studies how audit firms design and use performance measurement systems to motivate their equity partners. He also studies how target setting is related to implicit contracting within firms. In another study he examines how the deployment of internal controls affect a bank’s loan decisions. In his current research he looks into how ESG metrics are becoming a part of the performance management system..

On behalf of the (Dutch Inter-University) Limperg Institute he organizes Ph.D. courses in accounting. He serves at the board of Contemporary Accounting Research and The Accounting Review and is head of the accounting department at the University of Amsterdam.

Jan has advised the Dutch parliament on education, finance, compensation/performance measure and auditing topics. He also advised the Dutch Ministry of Finance and the AFM (Dutch equivalent of the SEC) and the Dutch banking Association. He is an active member of the Dutch association of accountants. He writes editorials for newspapers in the UK and in the Netherlands on a regular basis. He is one of the managing directors of the Foundation of Auditing Research (FAR), a research institute that provides academics with data collected in audit firms.

His teaching experience extends from bachelor, to Ph.D. programs in business economics. During the academic year 2013-2014 he taught accounting in the MBA program at Harvard business School. He also taught accounting in various executive programs. He holds his doctorate degree from Tilburg University and has published in several top tier academic journals, including Management Science; the Journal of Accounting and Economics; Journal of Accounting Research; Contemporary Accounting Research; Accounting, Organizations and Society; and The Accounting Review. Jan recently established the Journal Accountability in a Sustainable World teogheth with Peter Easton, Robert Knechel and Shiva Rajgopal.

Jurian Hendrikse is a PhD candidate in accounting at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management. Before starting his PhD, he graduated from the Research Master in Accounting at Tilburg University. His research focusses on the real and capital market effects of companies’ sustainability performance and disclosures. His research has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, and several other international news outlets.

Robert S. Kaplan, Professor Emeritus (but not retired) at Harvard Business School, has co-developed both activity-based costing (ABC) and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), widely recognized as seminal contributions to management theory and practice. His current research applies these innovations to problems at the intersection of business and society, including a new robust system for carbon accounting.

Kaplan has authored or co-authored 14 books and 250 papers. He received engineering degrees from MIT and Cornell, and has been recognized with Outstanding Accounting Educator Award from the American Accounting Association and induction into the Accounting Hall of Fame.