Ghio Alessandro | ESCP Business School

Alessandro Ghio

Associate Professor of Diversity and Social Accounting

Department : Performance Measurement & Management
Campus : Paris

Alessandro Ghio is an Associate Professor in the Performance Measurement and Management Department. Their research focuses on issues related to diversity in accounting (in particular, about sexuality, gender, and age), and corporate social media communication.

Alessandro has published in several leading academic journals, including Journal of Management Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, AUDITING, Journal of Business Ethics, and Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and co-authored three books. Alessandro is an editor of Accounting Horizons and associate editor at The British Accounting Review, and a board member of Accounting in Europe, Accounting Forum, Accounting Perspectives, Comptabilité Contrôle Audit and European Management Journal.

They received the prestigious Global Award 'Ideas Worth Teaching' by the Aspen Institute (NYC, USA). Alessandro is passionate about academic activism and they are the co-instigator of the projects “Queering Accounting” and “Working Women and wellbeing”. They have led and/or taken key roles in competitive research funded projects equating to over one million euros. They are regularly invited by the accounting professional bodies, Big4 and universities to develop and facilitate workshops and consult on diversity in business.

Prior to joining ESCP, Alessandro has been tenured faculty staff at Université Laval (Québec, Canada) and Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), and they have been a controller in a large telecommunication organization, a consultant for the Italian Ministry of Education on social mobility in education, and a visiting scholar at Indiana University (USA). They served on the Financial Authority Market (Québec) - Financial Reporting Advisory Committee.

Alessandro holds an HDR from Université Paris-Saclay, a Ph.D. in accounting from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France) and a Ph.D. in management from the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy).

PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS AND HONORS

Research Medal

2023

Laval Univesity

Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Instructional Contribution Award

2022

American Accounting Association

Research medal

2022

Laval Univesity

Research medal

2021

Laval Univesity

Best Paper Award at the American Accounting Association

2021

Diversity Section

Best Paper Award at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Association Conference

2021

Education Stream

ITC Bonelli Distinguished Alumni Award

2021

Best Culture, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Silver Award

2021

Association of MBAs (AMBA)

Emerald 2020 Literati Award

2021

Award for the paper “Art, accounting and technology: unravelling the paradoxical “in-between

Dean’s Award for Early Career Teaching Excellence

2020

Monash University

Best Paper Award at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Association Conference

2020

Management Accounting Stream

Chancellor’s Diversity and Inclusion Award

2019

Monash University Vice

Aspen Institute Global Award “Ideas Worth Teaching”

2019

NYC, USA

Dean’s PRME Education Award

2019

Monash Business School

Nomination and Participation to the 2019 CPA Australia Emerging Scholar Forum

2019

First-prize at the Poster Competition of the Accounting Week

2019

Monash University

Best Paper Award at the 13th World Congress for Accounting Educators and Researchers IAAER

2018

University of Sydney

AAA/Deloitte/J. Cook Fellowship

2017

Best paper award in Accounting

2016

BPF Conference

Honors Student (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)

2008-2012

Italian Ministry of Education

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Journal Article

2026

Beancounting Diversity in Business Schools

Journal Article

2026

Dismantling Gender-Washing in Business Schools: A Nonbinary Perspective

Journal Article

2026

Generational views on accounting: a case study on Gen Z

Journal Article

2026

Nurturing diversity in accounting through “Queering” accounting pedagogy

Journal Article

2026

Proliferation of performance metrics in universities: the rise of grant income and the renegotiation of academic worth

Habilitation Dissertation

2025

Accounting and “diverse” realities

Academic Articles

2025

Beancounting Diversity in Business Schools

Other contribution

2025

Business schools are facing challenges to their diversity commitments. They must reinforce them to train leaders effectively

Journal Article

2025

Constructing gender through reporting: unveiling the rhetorical strategies of an NGO from 1995 to 2021

Edited Book / Textbook

2025

Diversity and Equity in Accounting

Research and expertise

News

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Research Medal

2023

Laval Univesity

Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Instructional Contribution Award

2022

American Accounting Association

Research medal

2022

Laval Univesity

Research medal

2021

Laval Univesity

Best Paper Award at the American Accounting Association

2021

Diversity Section

Best Paper Award at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Association Conference

2021

Education Stream

ITC Bonelli Distinguished Alumni Award

2021

Best Culture, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Silver Award

2021

Association of MBAs (AMBA)

Emerald 2020 Literati Award

2021

Dean’s Award for Early Career Teaching Excellence

2020

Monash University

Best Paper Award at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Association Conference

2020

Management Accounting Stream

Chancellor’s Diversity and Inclusion Award

2019

Monash University Vice

Aspen Institute Global Award “Ideas Worth Teaching”

2019

NYC, USA

Dean’s PRME Education Award

2019

Monash Business School

Nomination and Participation to the 2019 CPA Australia Emerging Scholar Forum

2019

First-prize at the Poster Competition of the Accounting Week

2019

Monash University