Meet the team.

Meet the people empowering accountants to change the world.

Paolo Quattrone

Paolo is Professor of Accounting, Governance and Society and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Investment Risk at the Alliance Manchester Business School . He is also an Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford. Paolo has served on the Thought Leadership and Ethics Committee of the AICPA-CIMA for a few years and chairs their Corporate Reporting Development Panel. He is a leading expert on how reporting can help improving decision-making and cost controls and in that capacity served on the ‘Cost Estimation and Planning’ Panel of the UK Ministry of Defence, reporting to the MoD Secretary of State. He is the Recipient of the 5th EIASM Interdisciplinary Thought Leader Award and his article calling for recognising Nature as a stakeholder in the financial statements has won the 2022 Mary Parker Follett Award for his paper “Seeking transparency makes one blind: how to rethink disclosure, account for Nature and making corporations sustainable”, published in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal.

Ariela Caglio

Ariela is Associate Professor of Management Accounting and currently the Director of Bocconi-ESSEC Double Degree at Bocconi University. She is also a Professor at SDA Bocconi School of Management, where she is the Director of the Accounting Knowledge Area and the Scientific Coordinator of the New Value Knowledge Platform. She was a visiting academic at the University of Manchester and at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Ariela has extensively researched the role of sustainability and integrated reporting and has received several international research grants. Her contributions have appeared in leading academic journals, such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, European Accounting Review, and Management Accounting Research. She has been awarded the 'David Solomons Prize'. Ariela sits in the Management Committee of the European Accounting Association (EAA) and is an advisor for UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) on SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) and impact reporting.

Sarah Russo

Sarah is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Siena (Italy) in the field of accounting. Her research interests are in the area of risk management and sustainability accounting.
She has been a visiting research scholar at the Royal Holloway University of London (UK) and collaborated as a research assistant on the CIMA-funded project at the University of Manchester (UK) - Centre for the Analysis of Investment Risk, which lead to the creation and testing of the Sustainable Value Table.