Ileana Steccolini

Ileana Steccolini is a Professor of Accounting, the Director of Research and the Director of the Research Centre for Public Accountability and Management at Essex Business School, and a Professor of Accounting and Public Management at Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Turku, Pori Unit, Finland. She held previous positions at Newcastle University and Bocconi University and was a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney, the University of Edinburgh, RMIT Melbourne, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Getulio Vargas Foundation.

Her expertise develops at the interface among accounting and public administration and management. She has published on public sector accounting, budgeting, performance management, accountability and accountee-abilities, reform and change processes, governmental financial resilience, inclusion, participation and gender in public services. She publishes regularly in both accounting and public administration journals, including, among others, Public Administration Review, Public Administration, Public Management Review, Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the British Accounting Review.

She is the editor in Chief of Financial Accountability and Management and serves/served in the editorial boards of Public Administration Review, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, Public Budgeting and Finance, the Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting and Financial Management, the International Journal of Public Sector Management, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, and the Journal of Government and Nonprofit Accounting.

She is the President of the International Research Society of Public Management, the Chair and founder of the Public Service Accounting and Accountability Group, the Chair of the EIASM conference on Public Sector Accounting and Accountability, and she was the Chair of the Standing Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association until 2025.

Joanna Krasodomska

Joanna Krasodomska is an Associate Professor in the Department of Financial Accounting at the Krakow University of Economics. Her research focuses on sustainability reporting, stakeholder engagement, and assurance. She serves as Poland’s Representative to the European Accounting Association (EAA) Board and is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER). She has held research visits at the University of Glasgow, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and the University of Brescia.

Utz Schäffer

Utz Schäffer is a full professor of Management Accounting and Control at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany, and Director of the Institute of Management Ac-counting and Control (IMC). His research focuses on controlling and strategy execution, particularly the role of controllers and the digital transformation of the controlling function.

Utz has published extensively in leading academic journals (including Accounting, Organizations and Society; Contemporary Accounting Research; European Accounting Review; Management Accounting Research; Management Science and Strategic Management Journal) and is co-author of the leading German textbook "Einführung in das Controlling" (now in its 18th edition), which has been translated into Polish, Russian, Chinese and English. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Management Control and editor of Controlling & Management Review, a leading German-language journal for finance professionals.

In addition to his academic career, Utz Schäffer gained practical experience as a consultant for McKinsey & Company, Munich, and CTcon GmbH, Vallendar and Düsseldorf. He continues to maintain close ties to practice and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Controller Association (ICV).

Yvonne Hinson

Yvonne Hinson, Ph.D., CPA, CGMA is the CEO of the American Accounting Association, the largest association for accounting academics globally. Prior to assuming this role in September 2020, she served as the Academic in Residence and VP for Student & Faulty Initiatives for the Association of international Certified Professional Accountants. She began her accounting career with Arthur Andersen in Charlotte, NC. After returning to the University of Tennessee to pursue her Ph.D., Yvonne accepted a position with Wake Forest University. During her over 18-year career at Wake Forest University she served as a faculty member, Director of Accountancy and Dean of Charlotte Programs. Yvonne has served on numerous academic and community committees and nonprofit Boards and is a past President of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy, past Chair of the AAA Membership Advisory Committee and a past member of the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Board, the North Carolina Association of CPAs Board and the United States Federal Government Cost Accounting Standards Board. She is currently a member of the PhD Project Board. She currently serves on the AACSB Global Research Impact Task Force and the AACSB Standards Task Force. Yvonne was named by the AICPA and CPA Practice Advisor as one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Accounting for 2024. She was also named one of the 2024 and 2025 Most Influential People in Accounting by Accounting Today. Her research has been published in both academic and practitioner journals. She earned her BS in accounting and MBA from UNC-Charlotte.