Christopher Hossfeld is Associate Professor in the Financial Reporting and Audit department at ESCP Business School Paris Campus. After his MSc in Business Administration at the University of Saarland (Germany), he completed at the same institution his Doctorate (dissertation awarded for Best Ph.D. Dissertation at the University of Saarland). He also worked as a part-time auditor in the banking industry. Subsequently he joined the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle as a lecturer in business administration and then ESCP Business School.
His fields of expertise include financial accounting and reporting, ESG reporting, bank accounting and regulation. He teaches those subjects in the different programs of the school: Master in Management, Specialized Master, MBA and Executive Education. His research focuses especially on aspects of international accounting harmonization and issues around green finance. He has published in numerous specialized journals and presented papers at the main conferences of different accounting associations. He is also author or co-author of several books in the above-mentioned subject areas. At ESCP Business School, Professor Hossfeld is in charge of different courses and the specialisation “Financial and sustainability reporting for the CFO”. He is also member of several scientific associations, among them the Association Francophone de Comptabilité and the European Accounting Association.