Professor Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Takahiro Fujimoto is a Professor of Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo. He is also Executive Director of Manufacturing Management Research Center (MMRC) and Senior Research Associate at Harvard Business School.
He graduated from University of Tokyo in 1979. After working at Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc., he went on to the doctoral course of Harvard Business School in 1984. He finished the doctoral course in 1989, obtaining DBA. He joined Harvard Business School as fellow in the same year. He assumed the office of assistant professor at the Department of Economics, University of Tokyo in 1990. In the meanwhile, he worked at Lyon University as a guest professor and Harvard University as a senior fellow. He was appointed as professor of the Department of Economics in the Graduate School of University of Tokyo in 1998 and accepted the post of director of the Manufacturing Management Research Center of the Department of Economics, Graduate School of University of Tokyo in 2003.
His long-term research objectives have been technology and operation management. More specifically, in three areas: production management, product development, and suppliers management. In production management, he has made functional and evolutionary analyses of the so-called Toyota-style manufacturing system. Also, a study of paint body storage management, which reflects firms' organizational capabilities in manufacturing, is now making progress. In product development, He have studied impacts of three-dimensional CAD (digital information technologies) on lead time reduction, as well as inter-industrial comparison of effective product development. In suppliers management, key properties of the Japanese suppliers system and their institutional complementarity, as well as historical implication of black box parts and modularization, have been investigated empirically.
Professor David Cooper (University of Alberta, Canada)
David Cooper is currently Professor of Accounting in the Alberta School of Business. He is an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University and Consulting Professor at Strathclyde University. He was Director of the PhD program for the School from 1999- 2012 and a Visiting Professor at Said Business School, University of Oxford (2004-2012). David obtained a BSc (Econ, Honours) from the London School of Economics in 1970, a PhD from the University of Manchester in 1979, an Honorary Doctor of Economics from Turku University in 2005, the Haim Falk Award for Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought, Canadian Academic Accounting Association in 2005, a Killam Annual Professorship in 2008, the Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research (the highest research award offered by the University of Alberta) in 2010, and an Honorary Doctorate from Copenhagen Business School in 2012. Before joining Alberta, he held appointments at Manchester, East Anglia and UMIST, and visiting positions at several other Universities. He has extensive experience teaching on executive programs in Canada and the UK and has worked with several community and cultural organizations. He has a strong commitment to the training of research students and junior colleagues.
David has written or edited nine books and published more than eighty articles and chapters in academic and professional journals. His work has been published in journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organisation Studies, and Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, and several of his papers have had a major impact on accounting research. He is an editor of Accounting, Organizations and Society, Consulting Editor of Critical Perspectives on Accounting (which he co-founded in 1990) and is on the editorial boards of six other academic journals. Currently, he is examining the development and implementation of strategic performance measurement systems in several multinational organizations, as well as the emerging systems of global regulation of professional accountants.
Professor Jeffrey Unerman (University of London, Royal Holloway, UK)
Jeffrey Unerman is Professor of Accounting and Corporate Accountability and Head of the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. Before joining Royal Holloway's School of Management he was a professor at Manchester Business School.
His research and public policy work focuses on the role of accounting and accountability practices in helping organizations become more sustainable, recognizing the interdependencies between economic, social and environmental sustainability. A particular emphasis of this research is the potential and actual use of accounting in making the social and ecological impacts of organizational activities more transparent and in encouraging the embedding of sustainability within organizational decision-making.
Jeffrey is co-editor of Accounting for Sustainability: Practical Insights (2010), a book of case studies (undertaken in conjunction with the Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project) that examines the pioneering work of a number of blue chip organizations in developing sustainability accounting and accountability practices. He is also co-editor of Sustainability Accounting and Accountability (2007) and co-author of Financial Accounting Theory - European Edition (2011).
He is currently Joint Editor of Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, an Associate Editor of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and President of the British Accounting and Finance Association, the UK learned society for accounting and finance. He holds a PhD in social and environmental accounting from the University of Sheffield, is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and is an honorary member of CPA Australia.
Professor Liyan Wang (Peking University, China)
Professor Liyan Wang is a Professor of Accounting at Guanghua school of Management, Peking University.
He studied at three universities in central, southwestern and northern China respectively, and received his Ph.D. degree from Peking University, emphasis in accounting.
His experience abroad includes: (1) as senior visiting researcher at The World Resources Institute, Washington DC, from Feb.-April 2002; (2) as visiting professor at Menlo College, California, from Aug.-Dec.2001; (3) as visiting scholar at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from Feb.-April; (4) as visiting scholar at University of Hertfordshire, England, and University of Dundee, Scotland, from Nov.1996-Nov.1997.
Before his college life, Dr. Wang once been foundry worker at Datong / Taiyuan Rolling Stock Plants from 1975-1978, and farm worker at Qingxu County, Shanxi Province from 1974-1975.
Professor Garry Carnegie (RMIT University, Australia)
Garry Carnegie is a Professor of Accounting and Head, School of Accounting at RMIT University. Prior to joining academe, Professor Carnegie gained experience in IT, professional accounting services and in the financial services industry. He has been employed in higher education since 1985 and has held full-time professorial posts at Deakin University and Melbourne University Private/The University of Melbourne and at the University of Ballarat.
Garry published research appears in books and monographs as well as in articles in respected journals in the fields of accounting, accounting history, archaeology, economic history, companies and securities law, museum management and public administration. Professor Carnegie's current research is broadly concerned with governance and accountability from both contemporary and historical perspectives. He is joint editor of Accounting History, an awarded, internationally renowned journal, and is the author of Case Studies: Financial Accounting and Disclosure.
Professor Ikuko Sasaki (Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan)
Professor Ikuko Sasaki is a Professor of Accounting at Faculty of Business Administration and Dean of International Affairs, Tohoku Gakuin University.
She studied at University of Tohoku, received her Ph.D. degree from Tohoku University in 1997. After she joined Tohoku Gakuin University in 1998, she was visiting researcher at University of Washington, Washington, from Sept.2004 to Aug.2005. She was appointed as professor of the Faculty of Business Administration in 2009 and accepted the post of Dean of International Affairs, Tohoku Gakuin University in 2010.
