Siamak Soudani joined ESCP Business School at the London Campus in September 2021 as an Assistant Professor in Management Accounting and Control. He teaches courses in Bachelor’s, Master’s, Executive MBA, and PhD programmes, including Managerial Accounting, Cost Accounting, and Management Control. Additionally, he teaches two courses in the Master of Energy Management programme on the Paris campus: Leading and Transforming Energy Companies and Gas and LNG Markets.

He is also a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research interests focus extensively on critical, political, and social accounting. More specifically, he studies the role of management control systems in organisations and society, including: climate change (i.e. achieving global nature-positive and net-zero targets), navigating the impact of crises (e.g. sanctions), influencing individuals’ behaviour (e.g. control mechanisms), cultural translation (e.g. post-colonialism, neo-colonialism, and decolonisation), and conflicting values (i.e. the co-existence of multiple value regimes).

He has presented his research papers at various international conferences, such as Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting (IPA), Management Accounting as Social and Organisational Practice (MASOP), European Accounting Association (EAA), and Critical Perspectives on Accounting (CPA). He also maintains a strong network of research collaborators across the UK and globally.

Prior to his academic career, Siamak worked for more than five years as a financial controller in petroleum companies in the Middle East, mainly in the United Arab Emirates. During this period, he built a strong network with leading oil and gas companies in the region.

Siamak holds a PhD in Management (Management Accounting and Control) from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Accounting. During his PhD studies, the Vice-Rector of Research at the University of Innsbruck awarded him a research scholarship to promote talented young researchers.