Jan Friedrich is an Assistant Professor in the Financial Reporting & Audit department at ESCP Business School Paris Campus.

His research lies at the intersection of accounting and sociology. He analyses the dynamics between accounting standard-setting processes and structuring activities by preparers of financial statements. Recent research projects also investigate the regulation of financial markets, occupations and memory work in organisations, and topics related to environmental accounting. His research has been published in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Organization Studies, Accounting History Review, Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium, and Kölner Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie (KZfSS).

He holds a PhD in accounting from Goethe University Frankfurt. During his PhD, he was a visiting research scholar at Copenhagen Business School, ESSEC Business School, and Sciences Po. He teaches International Financial Reporting (IFRS) in the Master in Management and Big Data and Business Analytics programme.