Andreas Bergmann - is a Professor of Public Finance and Director of Public Sector Department at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Management and Law since 2002. He was Chair of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) from 2010 until 2015, after serving the board as a public member since 2006. Since 2009 he’s also member of SRS-CSPCP, the Swiss Accounting Standard Setter for the Public Sector and since 2010 a member of the European Commission Accounting Advisory Group, both ongoing. In 2010, Andreas Bergmann was a Visiting Don Trow Fellow at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He is scientific advisor to PFM reforms in Switzerland, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and to various international organizations.

Cássio M. Turra - é Economista pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e Doutor em Demografia pela Universidade da Pensilvânia. Foi pesquisador associado no Office of Population Research da Universidade de Princeton. Atualmente, é Professor Titular do Departamento de Demografia, Cedeplar, UFMG, onde leciona cursos de graduação e pós-graduação e conduz pesquisa em temas como história das populações, demografia econômica, métodos demográficos e saúde e mortalidade adulta.

Eliseu Martins - Professor Emérito das Faculdades de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da USP em São Paulo e da USP em Ribeirão Preto. Bacharel, Doutor e Livre-Docente pela FEA/USP; possui diversos cursos de Pós-Graduação nos EEUU e na França. É consultor, palestrante e parecerista da área contábil; Reitor do Centro Regional de Espírito Santo do Pinhal - Unipinhal; Membro de Conselhos de Administração, Consultivo e Fiscal de empresas privadas e estatais e de entidades sem fins lucrativos; Membro de Conselhos Editoriais de diversas Revistas Técnicas; Autor e co-autor de diversos livros, teses e centenas de artigos. Ex-Diretor da Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo - FEA/USP; Ex-Diretor Pró-Tempore da Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade de Ribeirão Preto - FEA/RP; Foi Coordenador do Pós-Graduação e Chefe do Departamento de Contabilidade e Atuária da FEA/USP; Ex-Diretor da Comissão de Valores Mobiliários - CVM (período de Outubro de 2008 a Dezembro de 2009 e de 1985 a 1988); Ex-Diretor de Fiscalização do Banco Central do Brasil; Foi representante do Brasil junto a ONU para assuntos de Contabilidade e Divulgação de Informações; Ex-Diretor do IBRACON - Instituto Brasileiro de Contadores - SP; Ex-Diretor da ANEFAC - Associação Nacional dos Executivos de Finanças, Administração e Contabilidade, entre outras funções já realizadas.

Francesco Scarpa - is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management of Ca' Foscari University. He was Postdoctoral Researcher and Adjunct Professor at Ca' Foscari University. Author of publications in academic international journals, he has participated as speaker at international and national congresses. His main research interests are: corporate sustainability; non-financial reporting; corporate tax planning and social responsibility; ESG rating. He granted his PhD in 'Business & Law' at the University of Bergamo. He obtainted his Bachelor Degree in 'Business Administration' and his Master degree in 'Accounting and Finance' at Ca' Foscari University.

Holger Daske - is Professor of Accounting and Capital Markets at the University of Mannheim. Prior to his current position, he spent two years at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and has also been a visiting Professor at London Business School, the University of Sydney, and recently IESE Business School in Barcelona. Prof. Daske obtained his Ph.D. in 2005 from Goethe University Frankfurt after being trained in the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral network HARMONIA. Holger Daske’s research interest is in financial accounting, focusing on IFRS, capital markets, and transparency regulation. His research has appeared in top academic journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, or Contemporary Accounting Research. He is a winner of the American Accounting Association (AAA)’s Distinguished Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award and Emerald Citations of Excellence Awards. He held numerous keynote speeches, among others, at the EIASM EDEN 25th Anniversary Symposium, the Workshop on “Accounting and Regulation” of the EIASM, the African Accounting & Finance Association Conference, or the Korean Accounting Association’s Doctoral Consortium. In the past, he served as a member of the IFRS Advisory Council with the IFRS Foundation, and as an invited expert for the European Parliament on the endorsement of IFRS. He is also a long-time member of Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft’s Arbeitskreis Finanzierungsrechnung, and a principle investigator of the collaborative research center TRR 266 “Accounting for Transparency” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He serves as Vice President Research of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER).

Jennifer Grafton - is a Professor of Management Accounting in the Department of Accounting and currently the Associate Dean (International) for the Faculty of Business and Economics, at the University of Melbourne. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy and Bachelor of Commerce (Degree with Honours) from the University of Melbourne. Jennifer previously worked for Arthur Andersen, consulting to a range of private and public sector organisations. Jennifer’s research and teaching interests span management accounting and business forensics and fraud. Her research investigates issues of performance measurement and management control system design and use, particularly in inter-firm contexts. She supervises honours and graduate research students in this field. Jennifer’s research has been published in leading international journals, including: Management Science, The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, and Management Accounting Research. Jennifer is a member of the editorial board for Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, the Journal of Applied Accounting Research, and the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research. Jennifer has received research funding from the Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (in both Australasia and the United Kingdom). Her research was awarded the David Solomon prize by the journal Management Accounting Research. Jennifer teaches into the Faculty’s undergraduate, graduate coursework and graduate research degrees, as well as executive education programs. Jennifer is a registered Chartered Accountant. She is Chair of the Management Accounting Special Interest Group for the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand and Chair of the Research Advisory Board for the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (Australasia). She is also a member of the International Committee of the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association, the Executive Management Committee of the University of Melbourne’s Confucius Institute, and the Advisory Board of the Faculty’s Centre for Asian Business and Economics. As Associate Dean (International), Jennifer is responsible for the development and implementation of the Faculty’s global engagement strategy and activities, the management of the Faculty’s international partnerships and collaborations, and enhancing the Faculty’s international standing and contributions.