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 a board member of Accounting in Europe, Accounting Forum, Accounting Perspectives, Comptabilité Contrôle Audit and European Management Journal. They received the prestigious 2019 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).

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15 publications

Academic Articles

2025

BEN KHALED, W., A. GHIO

Beancounting Diversity in Business Schools

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

Academic Articles

2025

BAUDOT, L., A. GHIO

Qualitative Research in North American Journals: A Promising Trajectory and an Invitation

ACCOUNTING HORIZONS, 1-12

Academic Articles

2025

SENN, J., S. MAIRE, A. GHIO

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

ACCOUNTING, AUDITING AND ACCOUNTABILITY JOURNAL

Books

2025

GHIO, A., M. AGOSTINI, V. BERETTA, C. DEMARTINI, S. TRUCCO

Diversity and Equity in Accounting

Springer

PhD / HDR Dissertation

2025

GHIO, A.

Accounting and “diverse” realities

Université Paris-Saclay

Academic Articles

2024

GHIO, A.

Democratizing academic research with Artificial Intelligence: The misleading case of language

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING

Academic Articles

2024

BROWN-LIBURD, H. L., A. GHIO, A. A. ROBERTS

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging: Practice Problems of Real Consequence

ACCOUNTING HORIZONS, 38, 1-5

Academic Articles

2024

GHIO, A., Z. OCCHIPINTI, R. VERONA

The Consideration of Diversity in the Accounting Literature: A Systematic Literature Review

EUROPEAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW (THE), 1-25

Academic Articles

2024

GHIO, A., B. MALSCH, N. MCGUIGAN

LGBTQI+ professional accountants and the consequences of stigmatization: An identity work perspective

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH

Academic Articles

2024

POWELL, L., A. GHIO, N. MCGUIGAN

Nurturing diversity in accounting through “Queering” accounting pedagogy

BRITISH ACCOUNTING REVIEW, 101516

Research and expertise

News & events

Events

Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance

04 June 2026 - 05 June 2025
07.00 am - 02.00 pm

Events

AI in Higher Education Summit 2026 – Paris, 17–18 March

17 - 18 March 2026
07.00 am - 05.20 pm

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

Research and expertise

News & events

Events

Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance

04 June 2026 - 05 June 2025
07.00 am - 02.00 pm

Events

AI in Higher Education Summit 2026 – Paris, 17–18 March

17 - 18 March 2026
07.00 am - 05.20 pm

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Academic Articles

2025

Beancounting Diversity in Business Schools

Academic Articles

2025

Qualitative Research in North American Journals: A Promising Trajectory and an Invitation

Academic Articles

2025

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

Books

2025

Diversity and Equity in Accounting

PhD / HDR Dissertation

2025

Accounting and “diverse” realities

Academic Articles

2024

Democratizing academic research with Artificial Intelligence: The misleading case of language

Academic Articles

2024

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging: Practice Problems of Real Consequence

Academic Articles

2024

The Consideration of Diversity in the Accounting Literature: A Systematic Literature Review

Academic Articles

2024

LGBTQI+ professional accountants and the consequences of stigmatization: An identity work perspective

Academic Articles

2024

Nurturing diversity in accounting through “Queering” accounting pedagogy

Research and expertise

News & events

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Research Medal

2023

Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Instructional Contribution Award

2022

Research medal

2022

Research medal

2021

Best Paper Award at the American Accounting Association

2021

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

2021

ITC Bonelli Distinguished Alumni Award

2021

Best Culture, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Silver Award

2021

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

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

2020

Chancellor’s Diversity and Inclusion Award

2019

Aspen Institute Global Award “Ideas Worth Teaching”

2019

Dean’s PRME Education Award

2019

Nomination and Participation to the 2019 CPA Australia Emerging Scholar Forum

2019

First-prize at the Poster Competition of the Accounting Week

2019

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

2018

AAA/Deloitte/J. Cook Fellowship

2017

Best paper award in Accounting

2016

Honors Student (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)

2008-2012

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