Speakers

Niamh Brennan is Emeritus Full Professor of Corporate Governance at University College Dublin, having held the Michael MacCormac Professor of Management Chair. She founded the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance in 2002.

Elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy, Ireland’s highest academic honour, the first business school academic to be so recognised, Niamh also received a British Accounting & Finance Association Distinguished Academic Award, was inducted into the Interdisciplinary Accounting Research Hall of Fame and was awarded a Fellowship of the Irish Academy of Management. Niamh is recognised by Stanford University as one of the world’s top 2% of scientists.

She was one of 22 business school faculty honoured by the US AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) in the 2024 Class of Influential Leaders.

Lukas Goretzki is a full professor of management accounting & control and head of the accounting department at the Stockholm School of Economics.

He holds a PhD from WHU and has previously worked at the University of Innsbruck.

His research focuses on the roles/identities of controllers, budgeting, forecasting, performance and impact measurement, and digitalization.

His work draws on qualitative methodologies and has appeared in journals like Accounting, Organizations and Society; Contemporary Accounting Research; European Accounting Review; Management Accounting Research; Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; The British Accounting Review; Financial Accountability & Management; and Critical Perspectives on Accounting.

Lukas is an Editor of Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, Associate Editor of The British Accounting Review and European Accounting Review, and serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals.

Lee Parker is a Research Professor of Accounting at Glasgow University, Scotland (also based in Adelaide, South Australia). His over 250 accounting and management publications exceed 25,000 citations.

He is listed in the Stanford top 2% of scientists as the highest career-total cited accounting scholar. Joint founding editor of Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, he is a member of the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame and the Australian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research Hall of Fame, holder of CPA Australia’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the University of Dundee’s Doctorate of Laws honoris causae.

His qualitative, interdisciplinary research areas include strategic management, corporate governance, accounting and management history, social and environmental accountability, public and non-profit sector, university commercialisation, the office, and qualitative research methodology.

Ileana Steccolini is a Full Professor of Accounting and Public Management at the University of Bologna and a Full Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex.

She is the Editor of Financial Accountability and Management, 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 the former Chair of the Standing Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association. She is a member of the Advisory Board of CIPFA International.

Luca Zan is an Alma Mater Professor at the University of Bologna. He is involved in research on the management of arts/heritage organizations, within an international comparative perspective (with fieldwork on China, Turkey, Peru, Ecuador, and Europe).

He is also active in the field of management & accounting history, with several international publications on the history of managing practices in protoindustrial settings, and management/accounting in historical perspectives.

In terms of teaching, he has been involved in international teaching in Arts management (till 2020 Director of GIOCA at Unibo and Adjunct faculty at the Heinz College, CMU, Pittsburgh; Adjunct faculty at CAFA, Beijing).

He teaches “Heritage, History, and the Issue of Organizing” at GIOCA, and from the next year, “History of Management” at Ca’ Foscari.