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 programs, including Managerial Accounting, Cost Accounting, and Management Control. Additionally, he teaches two courses in the Master of Energy Management program on the Paris campus: Leading and Transforming Energy Companies and Gas and LNG Markets.
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 study, the Vice-Rector of Research at the University of Innsbruck awarded him a research scholarship (to promote talented and young researchers).
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, the role of management control systems in organizations and society, such as climate change (i.e., achieving global nature-positive and net-zero targets), navigating the impact of crises (e.g., sanctions), influencing individuals' behavior (e.g., control mechanisms), cultural translation (e.g., post-colonialism, neo-colonialism, and decolonization), and conflicting values (i.e., co-existence of multiple value regimes). He has been presented his research papers at various international conferences, such as the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting (IPA), Management Accounting as Social and Organizational Practice (MASOP), European Accounting Association (EAA), and the Critical Perspectives on Accounting (CPA). He also has a strong network of research collaborators across the UK and globally.
Prior to his academic career, Siamak has worked for more than five years as a financial controller in the 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 Middle East.