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 and co-authored three books. Alessandro is an editor of Accounting Horizons, a co-editor of the Journal of Management and Governance, and a board member of Accounting in Europe, Accounting Forum, Accounting Perspectives and Comptabilité Contrôle Audit.
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 Laval University (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 serve on the Financial Authority Market (Québec) - Financial Reporting Advisory Committee.
Alessandro holds a Ph.D. in accounting from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France) and a Ph.D. in management from the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy).