Prof. Dr. Fevzi Serkan Özdemir,

is a professor at Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science, Department of Business Administration, specializing in Accounting and Finance. He earned his Ph.D. from Ankara University, where he examined the alignment of financial statement information, produced according to the Uniform Accounting System and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), with the qualitative characteristic of relevance, using financial failure predictions. His doctoral thesis was awarded the Second Best Doctoral Thesis by the Economic Research Foundation in 2011.

During his doctoral studies and afterward, Prof. Özdemir worked as a visiting scholar at New York University, where he continued his research on accounting information systems, financial reporting and analysis, accounting theory and education, international accounting, and corporate sustainability.

Prof. Özdemir has published numerous articles in national and international journals, as well as presented papers at various scientific conferences. He has supervised many master's and doctoral theses in the areas of financial reporting, sustainability, and financial performance across different universities. In addition to his academic contributions as an author and editor in several books, Prof. Özdemir serves as a reviewer and editorial board member for several academic journals. He also coordinates Accounting Search Conferences and International Insurance, Banking, and Finance Symposiums.

Since 2008, he has held various editorial roles at the Journal of Accounting and Taxation Studies, including Editorial Board Secretary, Associate Editor, and Editor. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief.

Prof. Özdemir also holds certifications as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Independent Auditor and serves as the Vice President of the Assurance Services Association.

Dr. İsmail Hakkı ÜNAL, a Research Assistant, is a faculty member at İzmir Demokrasi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration. He completed his Ph.D. at İzmir Demokrasi University with a dissertation titled "The Impact of Transparency in Non-Financial Information on the Financial Performance of Enterprises: An Empirical Study in Developing Countries." His research focuses on accounting theory and standards, accounting education, sustainability accounting and reporting, financial reporting, and analysis. Since 2016, he has been working at the Journal of Accounting and Taxation Applications, where he currently serves as the layout editor.

Prof. Dr. Fevzi Serkan Özdemir,

is a professor at Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science, Department of Business Administration, specializing in Accounting and Finance. He earned his Ph.D. from Ankara University, where he examined the alignment of financial statement information, produced according to the Uniform Accounting System and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), with the qualitative characteristic of relevance, using financial failure predictions. His doctoral thesis was awarded the Second Best Doctoral Thesis by the Economic Research Foundation in 2011.

During his doctoral studies and afterward, Prof. Özdemir worked as a visiting scholar at New York University, where he continued his research on accounting information systems, financial reporting and analysis, accounting theory and education, international accounting, and corporate sustainability.

Prof. Özdemir has published numerous articles in national and international journals, as well as presented papers at various scientific conferences. He has supervised many master's and doctoral theses in the areas of financial reporting, sustainability, and financial performance across different universities. In addition to his academic contributions as an author and editor in several books, Prof. Özdemir serves as a reviewer and editorial board member for several academic journals. He also coordinates Accounting Search Conferences and International Insurance, Banking, and Finance Symposiums.

Since 2008, he has held various editorial roles at the Journal of Accounting and Taxation Studies, including Editorial Board Secretary, Associate Editor, and Editor. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief.

Prof. Özdemir also holds certifications as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Independent Auditor and serves as the Vice President of the Assurance Services Association.

Mehmet Asutay is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Political Economy & Finance at the Durham University Business School, and the Director of the Durham Centre in Islamic Economics and Finance.
Mehmet’s teaching, research, publication, and supervision of research is all in Islamic moral economy/Islamic economics, Islamic political economy, Islamic finance and banking, Islamic governance and management and the Middle Eastern political economies.
His articles on his research interest have appeared in various international academic journals and professional magazines. He has also published manuscripts and edited books on aspects of Islamic moral economy and Islamic finance, the latest of which are: A Model for Islamic Development: An Approach in Islamic Moral Economy (with S. Jan, 2019), Mapping the Risks and Risk Management Practices in Islamic Banking (with W. Eid, 2019).
Mehmet's recent research includes the construction of Islamic moral economy and Islamic political economy; and their articulation in economic and sustainable development. In addition, his research focused on locating Islamic banking and finance within the expressed ideals of Islamic moral economy by essentialising sharing and collaborative economy nature of Islamic finance. Mehmet is also involved in empirical research in various aspects and dynamics of Islamic banking and finance as well as examining the political economy determinants and consequences of various Islamic finance industry development models.
Mehmet has acted as consultant to COMCEC (part of OIC), CIBAFI and UNDP-IICPSD on various projects, who was also a member of Board of Directors of Albaraka Turk Islamic Bank from 2018-2020.
Mehmet is the Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Islam and Society, the International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance Studies, and the Review of Islamic Economics. Mehmet is also a Board Member of the International Association for Islamic Economics.
His profile: https://www.durham.ac.uk/business/our-people/mehmet-asutay/

Joshua Ronen is a professor of accounting at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Ronen teaches courses in managerial accounting, financial accounting, advanced topics in financial accounting and financial statements analysis.

His primary research areas include capital markets, disclosure, earning management, economic impact of accounting rules and regulations, financial reporting, legal liability of firms, transfer pricing, agency theory, corporate governance, and fair valuation.

Professor Ronen has written numerous books including Accounting and Financial Globalization, Off-Balance Sheet Activities, Entrepreneurship, Smoothing Income Numbers: Objectives, Means and Implications, and Earnings Management. He has been published in many academic journals including and publications including The New York Times, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Abacus, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance, and Journal of Financial Markets. Additionally, he is the co-editor of the Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting.

In addition to his work at NYU Stern, Professor Ronen has lectured at University of Canterbury, Tel-Aviv University, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, National University of Mexico, University of Toronto, University of Chicago, Hebrew University, and London School of Economics among many others. He has also been a consultant for numerous organizations, including especially law firms as expert witness in the area of securities litigation. His suggestions for reform in the accounting profession have received critical acclaim by legislators and in the media.

Prof. Supriti Mishra is an expert in the areas of Corporate Strategy, CSR, and Corporate Governance. She has extensively published in these areas in peer-reviewed journals indexed and abstracted in FT50, Scopus, and Web of Science. She has also published management cases in Ivey Publishing and the Asian case research journal of NUS, Singapore. Currently, she works as a Full Professor in the Bhubaneswar campus of the International Management Institute (IMI), which is one of the top runners among B schools in India.
She serves on the Editorial Boards of several peer-reviewed national and international journals. She has won several awards and accolades for her outstanding research in the areas of CSR and Corporate Governance. She won the Best Paper Awards at the 8th Global Business Research Conference organized by LIUC-Università Cattaneo, Italy, and World Business Institute, Australia held in Milan, Italy in 2017, and at the 105th Indian Economic Association International Conference held in Balasore in 2022. She has received the 1st and 2nd positions respectively in the ISB-Ivey Global Case Competitions held in 2016 and 2017 at ISB, Hyderabad. She was a Fulbright Fellow in the year 2009-10 during which she worked as a Visiting Scholar in the Stern Business School in New York University, USA. She has presented papers at several international conferences in India and abroad on invitation. She was invited by the International Finance Corporation to Hong Kong in 2011 to deliver a talk on Corporate Governance to top executives of Hong Kong-based companies. The other countries where she has traveled as an invited speaker include Italy, Indonesia, Turkey, France, China, Hong Kong, the USA, the United Kingdom, Nepal, Maldives, Thailand, and Bhutan. She has been a Visiting Professor at many foreign universities including St. Ambrose University, USA, and Selcuk University, Turkey.
She sits on the Boards of companies and educational institutions. Currently, she serves on the Board of Odisha Agro Industries Corporation as an Independent Director and in SparkSpot, a start-up in Bhubaneswar, as an Advisor – People and Strategy. She has also conducted the Vision & Mission exercise for leading Central PSUs such as NTPC and OMC. She recently represented India in the Conference on Women's Leadership in Public-sector Organizations for Productivity Enhancement held in September 2023 in Jakarta, Indonesia, organized by the Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo. She is also a Member of the Board of Studies at the School of Management, O. P. Jindal University, and F. M. University, Balasore, Domain Expert in the Research & Development Committee of N. L. Dalmia Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mumbai, and External Expert Member, Ganpat University, Mehsana. She is associated with many companies as a Trainer and has conducted several MDPs in the last few years in CSR, Stakeholder Management, Gender, ESG, Corporate Governance, and Business Ethics for more than 500 mid- and senior-level executives working in various public and private sector companies across India. She has also been actively involved with the for-profit and non-profit national and international organizations as a consultant including Grant Thornton, NTPC, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, GoI, UNICEF, UNDP, Adam Smith Institute, U.K., and W.F. Baird & Associates, Canada.
She has a Post-doctorate from the Stern School of Business at New York University, USA. She holds a Ph.D. from I.I.T. Kharagpur, India in addition to her qualifications of MBA and M.A. in Applied Economics from Utkal University, India. In the initial stages of her career, she led an organization in the IT industry for about 10 years.