Aniket Shah is Managing Director and Global Head of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Sustainable Finance Strategy at Jefferies Group LLC. In this role, Aniket leads the integration of ESG and sustainability analysis within the global investment research department and engages with clients on this dynamic area of corporate and financial services. Aniket was ranked #1 in the US Institutional Investor Survey for ESG Research and #3 in Europe.

Prior to joining Jefferies, Aniket held senior roles in emerging market investing and financing sustainable development in both the public and private sectors, including at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, OppenheimerFunds and UBS Group AG. Aniket serves on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International and the UN SDSN. He is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Aniket is a member of the Economic Club of New York and the Bretton Woods Committee, and is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Oxford, where he completed his PhD on the financing of sustainable development.

Arianna Pisciella is a Ph.D. Candidate in Management working in the Department of Accounting and Control of HEC University of Lausanne. Her research lies at the intersection between Corporate Sustainability, Accounting and Governance. In particular, she is analyzing how corporations disclose about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework in their annual and sustainability reports. She is currently part of the Ph.D. student team of the ONE (Organizations and Natural Environment) Division of the Academy of Management, for which she organizes monthly online events and workshops to enhance doctoral students’ success and career opportunities.

Bianca Beyer is an Assistant Professor of Financial Accounting at Aalto University School of Business in Finland. In her research, she examines effects of disclosure and transparency on the users of firm information, such as consumers and financial analysts, as well as issues revolving around corporate governance and CEO compensation.

Prior to joining Aalto in 2022, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin and the trans-regional Collaborative Research Center TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency, which aims to help develop effective regulation for firm transparency. She holds her PhD in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Oulu.

Brad Sparks is Executive Director of Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) Foundation (US).  A4S was founded in 2004 by HM King Charles when he was The Prince of Wales. Brad leads the US Chapter of the A4S CFO Leadership Network, supporting Fortune 500 CFOs and their finance teams in embedding sustainability into business decision making. He also leads A4S activities across the US, including working with investors, business schools, and accounting organizations. Brad previously served as an Executive Director with KPMG focused on ESG issues. Brad is a lecturer at UCLA Anderson and an Executive-in-Residence at Cornell University’s Center for Global Sustainable Enterprise. He lives in Los Angeles. 

Clare Wang is a Professor of Accounting and Research Director for the Center of Ethics and Social Responsibility at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder.  Clare’s research examines the roles that legal, regulatory, and financial reporting regimes play in capital markets and corporate activities. She also studies emerging forms of disclosure such as corporate accountability reporting and social media platforms. Prior to devoting herself to academic research, Clare worked for Goldman Sachs in the investment banking division. She received both her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Cynthia Jeffrey, Ph.D., CPA, CGMA, is the RSM Faculty Fellow in Accounting at Iowa State University, where she researches and teaches in the areas of corporate social responsibility, international accounting, accounting theory, and ethics. Her research has been published in numerous scholarly journals including Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, The Accounting Review, Behavioral Research in Accounting, The International Journal of Accounting, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Accounting Horizons, and Business Ethics Quarterly. Cyndie is the past Editor of Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting. She is a member of the AICPA, the Accounting and Financial Women’s Alliance, and the American Accounting Association. Cyndie was the founding Director of the Master of Accounting Program at Iowa State. Cyndie received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Dan Crowley is a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice is focused on public policy issues relating to financial services and capital markets, and he leads the firm’s global financial services policy practice. In the decade before joining K&L Gates, he led the government relations efforts at the Investment Company Institute, The Nasdaq Stock Market, and the National Association of Securities Dealers. Previously, he served for eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives in increasingly senior staff positions including general counsel, Office of the Speaker. Dan was a President George W. Bush appointee at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is nationally ranked for government relations by Chambers USA (2015-2023), and he is a member of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C.

Desiree is the Chief Content Officer at Attain, an EdTech company providing immersive, game-based learning for the sustainable finance market.  She has over 25 years of experience in sustainable finance and global markets, having held senior roles at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Zais Group.

Desiree was Group Sustainability Officer at DWS Group, when she exposed what she considered to be extensive greenwashing.  She highlighted the discrepancies between the firm’s public ESG claims and its internal statements and actions and called for greater transparency and accountability in ESG investing.

Dhananjay Nanda is a vice-dean of faculty and research and professor of accounting at the Miami Herbert Business School. He teaches Managerial Accounting, Strategic Control and Financial Reporting, and Leadership issues in Control. He taught managerial accounting, cost and control systems at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business from 2002-2008 and the University of Michigan Business School from 1997-2002.

His research focuses on the incentive aspects of performance evaluation and compensation systems as they relate to corporate financial reporting and disclosure activities. His recent research focuses on accounting information’s role in resolving uncertainty about managerial ability, the role of boards of directors in affecting managerial incentives in both public and non-profit firms, and managers’ voluntary disclosure behavior. DJ’s research has been presented at numerous universities, international and national conferences and has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Accounting Studies and the Journal of Operations Management.

Nanda won several research and teaching awards, and his work has been recognized internationally. He has also been involved in consulting engagements at several domestic and international firms. He has taught in executive education programs at Indian School of Business, Seoul National University, INSEAD, FGV and University of Munich.

Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School. His research, writing, and teaching focus on climate risks and climate policy.

Gernot writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate and has written four books: Geoengineering: the Gamble, published by Polity (2021); Stadt, Land, Klima (“City, Country, Climate”), published, in German, by Brandstätter Verlag (2021); Climate Shock, joint with Harvard’s Martin Weitzman and published by Princeton (2015), among others, a Top 15 Financial Times McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015, and Austria’s Natural Science Book of the Year 2017; and But will the planet notice?, published by Hill & Wang/Farrar Strauss & Giroux (2011).

Prior to joining Columbia as senior lecturer, Gernot taught at NYU, Harvard, and Columbia. He was the founding executive director of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program (2016 – 2019), and served as economist at the Environmental Defense Fund (2008 – 2016), most recently as lead senior economist (2014 – 2016) and member of its Leadership Council (2015 – 2016). He has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is a Senior Fellow at the Jain Family Institute, a CESifo Research Network Fellow, a Faculty Affiliate at the Columbia Center for Environmental Economics and Policy, a Member of the New York City Panel on Climate Change, a Coordinating Lead Author of the Austrian Panel on Climate Change, and he serves on the board of CarbonPlan.org.

Born and raised in Amstetten, Austria, Gernot graduated from high school in his hometown before moving to the U.S. for college. He holds a joint bachelor’s magna cum laude with highest honors in environmental science, public policy, and economics, and a master’s and Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard, as well as a master’s in economics from Stanford.

Gernot lives in New York City with his wife, Siri Nippita, a gynecologist at NYU Langone Health and the chief of the family planning division as well as the director of Reproductive Choice at Bellevue Hospital, and their two young children.

Gunther Glenk is an Assistant Professor for Business at the University of Mannheim and a Climate Fellow at Harvard University. His research examines questions related to corporate transitions toward zero net emissions. Specific topics include the economics and management of corporate carbon emissions, decarbonization and sustainable energy technologies, and incentives for climate action. His work has been published in leading academic journals in the field of sustainability management and has been awarded honors and grants. He obtained a Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate degree in Management and Technology from the Technical University of Munich.

Ilmi Granoff is an attorney and climate and sustainable finance expert with over two decades of experience—spanning public, private, and third-sector institutions—working on the policy and financing of the transition to a net-zero greenhouse gas, sustainable economy. He serves as a trusted advisor, manager, and fiduciary for philanthropies, governments, financial institutions, and companies on sustainable finance and policy matters in the US, Europe, Latin America, and Africa, and is an accomplished speaker, researcher, and author.

Currently, Ilmi is a Senior Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, a member of the Climate-related Financial Risk Advisory Committee (CFRAC) of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the US Department of the Treasury, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. He is also a principal at the strategic advisory firm Climate Technology Group and at the private investment firm Adventure Capital. Ilmi is a non-executive Director of Carbon Tracker Intiative, Inc. and a member of the Advisory Board of InfluenceMap.

Ilmi recently established and led the Finance Program at the ClimateWorks Foundation as a Senior Director. Previously, he headed the Green Growth Business Unit at the Overseas Development Institute, served as the Special Counsel for Climate and Environment at the African Development Bank, practiced law in the global energy and infrastructure group at Freshfields, and worked at the United Nations Development Program. Ilmi holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, master’s degrees in international relations and environmental science from Yale University, and a B.A. (High Honors) from Swarthmore College.

Isabelle Grauer-Gaynor is a French Chartered Accountant. She has been heading the Corporate Finance and Reporting Unit since joining ESMA in September 2019, after having been a partner in Mazars Financial Reporting Technical Services, the IFRS Technical Director at the French accounting standard-setter ANC and been involved in various fields and capacities at PwC.

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.

Jeffrey Hales has been serving as an inaugural member of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) since July 2022. Prior to joining the ISSB, he served as an inaugural member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), which he chaired from 2018 to 2022. In his role as Chair, he oversaw the agenda setting and due process associated with the SASB standards development and maintenance. Before serving on the SASB Standards Board, he chaired the Standards Council for the SASB, which was formed in 2012.

Jeffrey Hales is also on faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches sustainability accounting. His research interests center on standard setting and regulation and has appeared in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Financial Economics, among other journals.

During 2009-10, he was a Research Fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in Norwalk, CT. In addition, he served as a member of the FASB’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council from 2016-2019. In the United Kingdom, he served on the Financial Reporting Council’s Future of Corporate Reporting Advisory Group from 2018-2020 and as a member of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board from 2018-2022.

Joachim Gassen holds the chaired professorship for financial accounting and auditing at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is a distinguished affiliated professor at ESMT Berlin and the deputy speaker of TRR 266 “Accounting for Transparency”. He graduated in economics from Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität Münster and obtained his doctoral degree in
Business Economics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His work centers on corporate transparency, financial accounting and applied data science and has been published in leading accounting journals. He is an associate editor of the European Accounting Review. His advisory work encompasses recurrent roles for national regulatory bodies and a seat on the academic advisory panel of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group.

Jochen Kurtz studied business administration at the University of Mannheim followed by PHD studies in economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His thesis dealt with a Circular Economics topic. In his 28 years with BASF, he owned several leadership positions in Finance, Controlling and Digitalization in the Headquarter in Ludwigshafen, Germany and in Antwerp, Belgium. 

Currently he is Vice President Group Performance Management & Analytics, which includes as Corporate Controller also the Sustainabilty Reporting and Performance Management. 

Jonas Heese is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting & Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies corporate misconduct, with a special focus on the role of regulators and organizations’ compliance systems to prevent such misconduct. His current work explores the role of monitoring by management to curtail misconduct across a wide range of financial and nonfinancial violations, including those relevant for firms’ compliance with environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulations. His award-winning research has been published in leading academic journals, and quoted by various media outlets.

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.

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 and leads 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, Professor Ramanna is 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.

Kerstin Lopatta is Chair Professor of Financial Accounting, Auditing and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg. Furthermore, she is affiliated with City University of Hong Kong as a visting professor. She received her doctoral degree from Goethe University Frankfurt. 

Kerstin has extensive experience in sustainability reporting and financial accounting in practice and research. Before starting her scientific career she worked as an audit assistant for Deloitte. She is involved in developing, improving and implementing a variety of disclosure standards in different areas of sustainability reporting, e. g. she serves as an academic observer of the sustainable finance council of the German Ministry of Finance and is the vice chair of the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Board. 

In her research, she investigates empirically the effects of environmental, social, and governance factors on business and society. She also covers corporate governance topics such as board structure and diversity. Kerstin Lopatta is member of the supervisory board at EQS Group AG, Freenet AG, EUROKAI GmbH & Co. KGaA and chair of the audit committee at EQS Group AG.

Dr. Luisa Palacios is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs. She was the first Chairwoman of Houston-based Citgo Petroleum Corporation, where she led efforts to strengthen corporate governance, ethics, and social responsibility. Palacios also worked as a Senior Managing Director and member of the management committee of Medley Global Advisors, a Director at Barclays Capital in the emerging markets research department, a Senior Economist in the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and an Economist in the risk department at Société Générale in Paris.

Magali (Maggie) Delmas, a Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management and the Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, leads the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance and the Center for Impact at Anderson. Her research focuses on Strategy and Corporate Sustainability, with over 90 publications. Delmas won the Academy of Management/Organization and the Natural Environment Distinguished Scholar Award and works on developing effective information strategies for promoting conservation behavior and green markets. Her award-winning book, “The Green Bundle: Pairing the Market with the Planet,” is published by Stanford Press. She is engaged in refining current methodologies to measure and communicate firm and product environmental and social performance. One of her groundbreaking endeavors is the “Open for Good Platform,” which provides a comprehensive assessment of corporate transparency across environmental, social, and governance (ESG) categories specifically tailored for companies in the S&P 500.

Marc is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance. Marc’s research examines financial markets and financial institutions and the roles they play in addressing climate change, ranging from carbon accounting and carbon markets to insurance product design and industry regulation. Prior to Stanford, Marc spent more than 25 years in  senior investment and risk management roles in asset management firms and insurance companies. Marc holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago, and an undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University.  

Marco Antonio Achón is Co-Head of Santander Corporate & Investment Banking US, and General Manager of Banco Santander, S.A. New York Branch.

He joined Santander US in October 2017 after serving as Global Head of Global Debt Finance (GDF) in Madrid. Marco has held various roles with Santander Group since 2005, including Global Head of Loan Markets, European Head of Credit Markets, and European Head of Corporate & Investment Banking.

Marco brings with him more than two decades of experience with large U.S. and international financial institutions. Prior to joining Santander, Marco served as Head of Debt Capital Markets and Loan Syndications for the Americas for BBVA Securities, Inc. in New York and Vice President of the Latin America Group at Argentaria.

Marco has a BA in business administration and a BA in law from Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain. He also received an MBA from Columbia University in New York.

He holds Board memberships at AS/COA, Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce, YPO NYC Chapter, and Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce where he serves as President since Sept. 2020. He is also a member of the Colin Powell School Board of Visitors, and of the Economic Club of New York.

Maura Hodge is an audit partner in KPMG’s Boston Office. She has nearly 20 years of experience providing financial statement audit, audit of internal control, performance improvement advisory, and related assurance services to clients. In 2010, she supported the creation of KPMG’s Sustainability Services practice in the U.S. In that role, she developed the KPMG U.S. approach to sustainability assurance and has led the Firm’s largest ESG engagements, which include assurance of use of proceeds of green bonds, social impact of private equity funds, standalone greenhouse gas emissions reports, and full corporate responsibility reports. Ms. Hodge currently leads the Firm’s national efforts around ESG measurement, reporting and assurance.

Patricia Dechow is the Robert R. Dockson Professor of Business Administration and a professor of accounting at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. One of the leading and most highly cited accounting researchers in the nation, Dechow research interests include accounting accruals, understanding the quality of earnings and non-GAAP earnings exclusions.  She is also interested in understanding the role of corporations in supporting social movements. Her work has appeared in many journals and includes The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Journal of Accounting and Economics.  Dechow received the American Accounting Association’s Seminal Contribution to Accounting Literature Award in 2019, the AAA Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature awards in 2010 and 2015 and the FARS Distinguished PhD Mentoring Award in 2020.  She was inducted into the Australia Accounting Hall of Fame in 2022.  Dechow earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Western Australia and a doctorate in accounting and finance from the W.E. Simon School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.  She is an editor for the Review of Accounting Studies.  She has recently been involved in developing and teaching a course on Sustainability Reporting.  She is a member of the Executive Committee for the RRBM network (Responsible Research in Business & Management).

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.

Piyush heads climate and sustainable finance for Tata Steel. In addition to sustainability related financing activities across the Tata Steel Group, Piyush is also engaged in development of sustainability reporting landscape for the Tata Steel Group.  Piyush is interested in policy development across various geographies on decarbonisation and has prior experience in Treasury, Corporate Finance and M&A across India and the United Kingdom.

Deloitte and Touche LLP Chair in Accountancy

Professor of Accounting, Finance and Business Economics

Marshall School of Business

University of Southern California

Richard Sloan is a professor of accounting, finance and business economics at the University of Southern California. He has also served on the faculties of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. While at the University of Michigan, Professor Sloan was the founding director of the John R. and Georgene M. Tozzi Electronic Business and Finance Center. From 2006 to 2009, Sloan was a managing director in equity research at Barclays Global Investors (since acquired by Blackrock). Professor Sloan is a pioneer in the field of quantitative investing. He has served as a consultant to numerous firms in the investment management industry and a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Professor Sloan’s research focuses on the role of accounting information in investment decisions. His research has received numerous awards, including the American Accounting Association’s Seminal Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award (2016), the American Accounting Association’s Distinguished Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award (2010) and the American Accounting Association’s Notable Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award (2001, 2009). He is the coauthor (with Russell Lundholm) of Equity Valuation and Analysis, now in its sixth edition. He is also an editor of the Review of Accounting Studies and a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council. Professor Sloan holds a PhD in Accounting and Finance from the University of Rochester and a BCom (Hons) from the University of Western Australia.

Robert is the world’s foremost expert on integrated reporting and a leader on how companies and investors can create sustainable strategies.

Mr. Robert H. Herz, CPA, CGMA, FCA, currently serves on the boards of directors and various board committees of Fannie Mae (Audit Committee Chair), Morgan Stanley (Audit Committee Chair), Workiva Inc., Paxos, and the Value Reporting Foundation ( created by the recent merger of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and the International Integrated Reporting Council ), on the Independent Investment Committee of the United Nations Operating Project Services (UNOPS), on the advisory boards of AccountAbility and Lukka, Inc. (formerly known as Libra Services, Inc.), as an Ambassador for the International Integrated Reporting Council, and as a member of the Audit Committee Chair Advisory Council of the National Association of Corporate Directors.

He is also an executive in residence at the Columbia Business School where he lectures, counsels students, and works with faculty on research studies and from 2006-2017 served on the advisory board of the Alliance Manchester Business School in England. He also serves on the Standing Advisory Group of the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and on the PCAOB’s Data and Technology Task Force, the Financial Reporting Faculty Advisory Group of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and was a member of the Accounting Standards Oversight Council of Canada from 2011-2017. Mr. Herz also provides consulting services on financial reporting and other matters through Robert H. Herz LLC, of which he is President.

Mr. Herz was Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) from 2002 to 2010 and was one of the original members of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). He was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for many years, including serving as audit partner on numerous major companies, as head of the firm’s Corporate Finance Advisory Services, as senior technical partner, as a member of the firm’s US and Global Boards, as President of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation, and as a trustee and vice chair of the Kessler Foundation from 2003-2015.

He has chaired a number of professional committees, including the IFAC Transnational Auditors Committee and the AICPA SEC Regulations Committee, has served on numerous public policy commissions, testified many times at Congressional hearings, authored or co-authored 7 books and over 80 articles and published papers, is a frequent speaker at major financial reporting and business conferences, and is a member of the Accounting Hall of Fame and recipient of many other awards including the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) for lifetime contributions to the profession and society.

Robert S. Kaplan, Senior Fellow and Professor, Emeritus, joined Harvard Business School in 1984 after serving as dean of Carnegie-Mellon’s Tepper School. Kaplan has co-developed activity-based costing, the Balanced Scorecard, and E-liability carbon accounting. He now applies these innovations to value-based health care, accounting for corporate GHG emissions (with Karthik Ramanna), and corporate inclusive growth strategies for triple bottom line performance.

Kaplan has BS/MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT, a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell, and four honorary doctorates. He is a member of the Accounting Hall of Fame.

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.

Sanjai Bhagat serves on corporate boards, and advises national (U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission) and international regulators (Bank of International Settlements, Basel) on corporate governance and finance. He is an expert in executive compensation, bank board governance, and cybersecurity governance. He  is the author of “Financial Crisis, Corporate Governance, and Bank Capital” published by Cambridge University Press, and is Professor of Finance at the University of Colorado.

Scott W Gibson is an author, and CEO of Quercus Agroforestry, Inc. a competitive intelligence and strategic consulting firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. QAI develops alternative markets for environmental mitigation, regenerative agriculture, and product development. Working in the bio-product and biostimulant markets since 2004, Scott previously devoted 24 years to the crop protection industry with 3M and BASF working in product development, marketing, and global product management. He has working experience in Europe, Asia, and the Americas at various levels of agribusiness. A member of several business organizations, he also operated a grain farming operation for several decades.

Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture.  His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist. He teaches fundamental analysis of financial statements for investors, managers and entrepreneurs and a PhD seminar on accounting regulation.

Key awards include 2006 and 2016 American Accounting Association (AAA) Notable Contribution to the Literature award, 2006 and 2016 Graham and Dodd Scroll Prize given by the Financial Analysts Journal, and the 2008, 2012 and 2015 Glen McLaughlin Award for Research in Accounting Ethics.

He is the Departmental Editor of the Accounting track of Management Science.  He is also an Associate Editor at the Journal of Accounting and Economics and an ex-editor at Contemporary Accounting Research.  He was on the editorial board of The Accounting Review from 2003-2011. He is one of the founding editors of Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly.

Stefan is known internationally for his research at the intersection of economics and management accounting. At the University of Mannheim, his research team has examined the economics of decarbonization in the context of multiple emerging climate technologies. His most recent research has focused on corporate net zero pledges and corporate carbon reporting. Stefan’s findings have been published consistently in leading management and science journals.

Prior to joining AccountAbility, Mr. Misser was Global Managing Partner of the Sustainability Advisory Business at PwC. Before that, he was Global Strategy Leader for PwC’s Assurance and Business Advisory Services. Mr. Misser has been a strategic business advisor to CEOs and Boards of Fortune 500 companies and multi-lateral organizations.

Mr. Misser’s experience also includes operations and advanced manufacturing, with Mars, Inc. and Honeywell. He holds an M.S. in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management. He also has an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from M.S. University.

Mr. Misser serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of Lehigh University’s College of Engineering & Applied Science. He also served on the advisory boards of E-Business @ MIT, Innovation and Corporate Responsibility at MIT/Sloan. Mr. Misser is a frequent speaker on international leadership forums and is widely quoted by prominent global media.

S. Burcu Avci is an associate professor of finance. After graduating from Ozyegin University in Istanbul in 2016, she conducted research at the University of Michigan, and the University of Notre Dame. She has been a researcher at Sabanci University since 2018 and she teaches corporate finance lectures. Her research focuses on various topics, including sustainability, executive compensation, corporate fraud, corporate finance, law, and sustainability.

Susan leads the A4S global CFO Programme including managing existing networks and expanding the programme. She has over twenty years’ experience as a project and programme manager. Prior to A4S she worked in the financial sector, AIB, managing IT implementation, restructure and regulatory projects. She moved to the not for profit sector and worked for CAFOD, an international overseas development agency, as a programme change manager managing the delivery of a divisional restructure. Susan has a B.Comm and H.Dip in System Analysis from NUI Galway

Teresa Landaverde, the Manager CO2 Strategy at Heidelberg. She is responsible for the Green House gases emissions accounting across Scopes at the group level, CO2 decarbonization Roadmap, target setting, and assessment, among others.

She holds a double Master’s degree in the field of International Business and Comparative Law from the University of Mannheim and Adelaide. She started her career as a commercial lawyer and then brought her knowledge to Heidelberg Materials in 2015. Since then, she built her expertise in decarbonization, focusing on low carbon components of cement, development of the CO2 reduction strategy, CO2 accounting, etc. She is an active member at the Global Cement and Concrete Association.

Tom is an experienced governance and strategy consultant with a decade of providing governance support, strategic advice and ESG a across multiple sectors.

He began his career advising a UK Minister and a Secretary of State before joining a governance consultancy, The Good Governance Institute. Rising rapidly through the firm, he was then headhunted for PwC’s National Governance Advisory team as a subject matter expert. In 2020, Tom joined thevaluecircle where he supported the organization through three years of record growth to become one of the leading governance specialists in the UK. In 2020, Tom was recognized for his governance expertise with an award nomination at the Chartered Governance Institute’s National Governance Awards.

At AccountAbility Tom heads up the European advisory practice supporting clients on ESG matters.

Tim Doyle is Senior Policy Advisor to the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Founder and Principal at Doyle Strategies, LLC. Tim previously was Principal and General Counsel at Guidepost Strategies, and prior to that Vice President of Policy and General Counsel of the American Council for Capital Formation.

He previously served as Senior Counsel and Oversight Staff Director for the House Science Committee. Prior to that, he served as Senior Counsel for the House Natural Resources Committee.

Tim holds a J.D. from Michigan State University as well as a B.A. with a dual major in Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy and Criminal Justice. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Michigan.

Warren Maroun is a Professor of Accounting and Auditing at the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Accountancy. He joined the IAASB’s Board in January 2022 having been nominated by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Prior to joining the Board, Mr. Maroun consulted widely on matters related to financial accounting, auditing and integrated reporting. He also serves as the editor of Meditari Accountancy Research and is an Associate Editor of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. Before joining academia, Mr. Maroun served in different capacities at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has served on different task forces, working groups and committees for the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa, the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors and the Chartered Governance Institute of Southern Africa.

Mr. Maroun has published several books and book chapters and is an author on numerous academic papers dealing with technical and theoretical developments in corporate reporting and assurance. He earned his Masters in Accountancy from the University of the Witwatersrand and a PhD from Kings’ College London. He is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Zabihollah Rezaee is the Thompson-Hill Chair of Excellence and Professor of Accountancy at the University of Memphis and has served a two-year term on the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). Dr. Rezaee holds ten certifications including Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He is currently the editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research (JFAR) and serving on the Hong Kong Accounting and Financial Reporting Council Panel. Professor Rezaee has published over 270 articles and made more than 300 presentations, written 14 books, and served as expert witness.