Bob Berry is Boots' professor of accounting and finance at Nottingham University Business School and director of the School's MBA programmes. He worked in industry and held teaching posts at the Universities of East Anglia and Warwick before moving to Nottingham. Bob's teaching and research concentrates on corporate finance.
Al Bhimani (CMA Canada) is professor of management accounting at the London School of Economics. He has co-authored a number of books and has produced an extensive list of scholarly publications. Al serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals and has undertaken strategy, marketing, culture-based and management-control-related fieldwork in a variety of global enterprises.
Trond Bjørnenak is professor of management accounting and head of accounting, auditing and law at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. His research interests lie in cost and performance management, strategic management accounting, beyond budgeting and management accounting innovations. Trond is a member of several editorial boards, including management accounting research.
Jane Broadbent is professor of accounting and deputy vice-chancellor of Roehampton University. She trained as an accountant in the NHS before becoming an academic. Jane’s research focuses on accounting in the public services. Her recent CIMA research grant with Richard Laughlin, ‘exploring PFI in the NHS’, led to comparative work on Australian PPPs undertaken with colleagues in Sydney University.
Michael Bromwich FCMA, CGMA is CIMA’s professor of accounting and financial management emeritus at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a past president of CIMA (1987/88) and currently serves on CIMA’s technical committee. Michael was a founding editor, with Bob Scapens, of the international journal Management Accounting Research in 1989.
John Burns is professor of management and accountancy, and head of the department of accounting at the University of Exeter Business School. He previously held positions at the Universities of Manchester, Colorado and Dundee. He is associate editor for Management Accounting Research and co-founder of the European Network for Organisational and Accounting Research (ENROAC). His main research interests are management accounting (change), organisational change, and accounting for sustainability.
Chris Chapman is professor of management accounting in the healthcare management group of Tanaka Business School at Imperial College, London. His research focuses on management control/information systems and performance evaluation. Chris is an associate editor of Accounting, Organizations and Society and a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management.
Lino Cinquini is professor of management accounting at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa (Italy). His research interests are in cost management, strategic management accounting, performance measurement and accounting history. Lino has conducted research in these areas in both manufacturing and service sector, including health care. He is also a co-editor of Journal of Management and Governance.
David Cooper is CGA professor of accounting at the University of Alberta and director of the Business School’s PhD programme. He is the author of several books and numerous articles. David is joint editor of Critical Perspectives on Accounting and currently examines performance measurement systems and the global regulation of accountants.
Antonio Davila works at IESE where he directs the doctoral programme. His current interests are in the design of organisations (particularly performance measurement and management control systems) for innovation in large companies as well as high-growth start-ups. He was a faculty member at Stanford University after receiving his doctorate from the Harvard Business School, before moving back to Europe. He also holds a bachelor degree in telecommunications engineering and an MBA.
René Demeestère is professor of management at ESSEC Business School (Paris and Singapore). His expertise is in strategic performance management, management accounting and management of the public sector. René has published widely in these areas and is also a consultant for international enterprise (automobile, banks, energy, telecom) and public administrations.
Lin Fitzgerald ACMA, CGMA is professor of management accounting at Loughborough University Business School. Her research interests and publications are in the areas of performance management and cost information for decision-making in service organisations. She has a strong track record in funded research, has published in both practitioner and academic journals and is currently an associate editor for British Accounting Review.
Frank Hartmann is professor of management accounting and management control at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. His research interests include the relationship between strategy and accounting, the effects of performance evaluation on trust and motivation, and the diffusion of management accounting innovations in the medical industry.
Ron Hodges is professor of public services accounting at the University of Sheffield Management School, where he is also associate dean for learning and teaching. Ron is chair of the public services accounting special interest group of the British Accounting Association, director of the public sector academy of the University of Sheffield and a member of the board of Gedling Homes in Nottinghamshire.
Chan Yoke Kai FCMA, CGMA is associate professor of accounting and head of accountancy at SIM University, Singapore. He was previously director of the Centre for Applied Research, and deputy president (development) of UNSW Asia, the University of New South Wales. He is a past president of CIMA Singapore. He was awarded the 2008 silver medal award for his contribution to the accountancy profession and the community by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore. His current research interests are corporate governance and corporate social responsibility
Roland Kaye is professor of management accounting at Norwich Business School and was previously professor of information management at the Open University Business School. His research interests include management accounting, information management and their use by managers for strategic planning and performance management. Roland is a past president of CIMA. He is an advisor to the Chartered Management Institute and governor of Ashridge Management College.
Kim Langfield-Smith is professor of management accounting and deputy dean (research) within the faculty of business and economics at Monash University, Australia. Her research interests include performance measurement systems, the relationship between management accounting systems and strategy, and management control systems in inter-firm relationships. Kim is a board member of the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB) of IFAC.
Irvine Lapsley is professor of accounting and director of the institute of public sector accounting research at the University of Edinburgh. He is editor of Financial Accountability & Management. Irvine is scientific committee chair of the EIASM Public Sector Conference, co-chair of the EIASM Third Sector Research Workshop, and co-chair of the BAA/CIMA New Public Sector Seminar. He has been budget advisor to the Scottish Parliament.
Michel Lebas is emeritus professor of management accounting at the HEC School of Management in Paris, and visiting professor of accounting at the Michael G Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. His research, executive teaching and consulting focus on advanced practices in management accounting and enterprise performance management systems.
Joan Luft is Eli Broad professor of accounting at the Broad School of Business, Michigan State University. Her primary research interests are performance measurement, management control, and accounting ethics. She has served as associate editor of The Accounting Review, editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research, and editorial board member for a number of major journals.
Kari Lukka is a professor of accounting and head of department at the Turku School of Economics, Finland. His research interests and publication record cover wide areas of management accounting and control as well as methodological foundations of accounting research. He was the editor of European Accounting Review from 2000-2005 and is now serving at the editorial boards of several accounting research journals, including AOS, EAR and JMAR.
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Howard Mellett is professor in accounting at Cardiff Business School. His research interests are in the public sector where his work concentrates on the use of accounting techniques to monitor, report and control activity. Howard joined University College Cardiff after qualifying as a chartered accountant.
Ken Merchant holds the Deloitte & Touche LLP chair of accountancy at the University of Southern California. Previously he taught at Harvard Business School. His research is focused on management accounting, management control systems and corporate governance. He currently serves on the editorial boards of 11 academic journals.
Falconer Mitchell is professor of management accounting and head of accounting and finance at the University of Edinburgh and chairman of CIMA's research board. His research interests lie in cost management, accounting change, the links between strategy and management accounting and accounting history. Falconer is a member of several editorial boards including Management Accounting Research and the Journal of Accounting and Organisational Change.
Jan Mouritsen is a professor at Copenhagen Business School. His interests lie in the role of management control in various organisational and social contexts including intellectual capital and knowledge management, technology management and operations management. Jan is a member of several editorial boards and has been published in journals including Accounting, Organizations and Society and Management Accounting Research.
Neale O'Connor has a diverse consulting and executive education portfolio with a wide range of companies in the Asia-Pacific region. His work has focused on controllership, financial performance metrics, and human resources management. He has also developed corporate business cases for a number of companies including HTC, PQI, EU Design, Philips, Sungod Fashion, Delphi, and Alpharma. His most recent research examined the use of management controls in international joint ventures in China and the adoption of formal management control mechanisms in Chinese SOEs.
Hanno Roberts is a professor in management accounting and control at the Norwegian School of Management. He has an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management and a PhD from the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. His main research interests are in the areas of management accounting and control of the knowledge-intensive firm, and qualitative research methods notably with respect to SMEs.
Robert Scapens is emeritus professor at Manchester Business School and professor of management accounting at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He holds visiting appointments in several other universities across Europe. He was a co-founder of Management Accounting Research and is now its editor in chief. Bob’s recent research has included projects on management accounting change and performance measurement in multinational corporations.
Mike Shields is the Schaberg endowed chair in accounting at the Broad School of Business, Michigan State University. His research interests include budgeting, performance measurement, and incentives. He has been editor and associate editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research and is an associate editor of Accounting, Organizations and Society.
Suzana Sulaiman ACMA, CGMA is a professor of management accounting at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), faculty of accountancy, Malaysia. Her research interests and publications are in the areas of evolution of management accounting, enterprise governance and value management. She is currently the head of the Asian Management Accounting Research Centre (AMARC), managing editor for Asia-Pacific Management Accounting (APMAJ) and CIMA’s Malaysian divisional council member.
Charles Sutcliffe ACMA, CGMA is professor of finance at the ICMA Centre. Previously, he was professor of finance and accounting at the University of Southampton, and the Northern Society professor of accounting and finance at the University of Newcastle. Charles has been vice-chairman of CIMA’s research board for 11 years.
Guliang Tang is professor and dean of the business school at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China. His research interest focuses on management control system and corporate financial management. He is the author of more than 20 Chinese and English articles and ten books on accounting and is founder and chief editor of the Journal of management accounting studies, the first English and Chinese journal of management accounting research in China.
Steven Toms is professor of accounting and finance and inaugural head of the York Management School. His research focuses on the interface between strategic management decision-making and business finance. He has used this to develop models of corporate turnaround, business evolution and strategies for survival in declining industries, business ethics and corporate social responsibility, and health sector PFIs.
Sally K Widener is an associate professor of accounting of the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. Her research focuses on the economic and behavioral consequences of performance measurement and management control systems. Sally is also interested in gaining greater insights into the interdependencies that exist in control packages.