Ghio Alessandro | ESCP Business School

Alessandro Ghio

Associate Professor of Diversity and Social Accounting

Department : Performance Measurement & Management
Campus : Paris

Alessandro Ghio is an Associate Professor in the Performance Measurement and Management De-partment. 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. Ales-sandro is an editor of Accounting Horizons, a co-editor of the Journal of Management and Govern-ance, 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 regu-larly 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, Cana-da) and Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), and they have been a controller in a large tele-communication 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).

PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS AND HONORS

Diversity at the top: Evidence on board composition and representation

In: Handbook on Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility, Michel Magnan, Giovanna Michelon Edward Elgar Publishing, 345-358

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Academic Articles

2025

Beancounting Diversity in Business Schools

Academic Articles

2025

Qualitative Research in North American Journals: A Promising Trajectory and an Invitation

Academic Articles

2025

Constructing gender through reporting: unveiling the rhetorical strategies of an NGO from 1995 to 2021

Academic Articles

2024

Democratizing academic research with Artificial Intelligence: The misleading case of language

Academic Articles

2024

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging: Practice Problems of Real Consequence

Academic Articles

2024

The Consideration of Diversity in the Accounting Literature: A Systematic Literature Review

Academic Articles

2024

LGBTQI+ professional accountants and the consequences of stigmatization: An identity work perspective

Academic Articles

2024

Nurturing diversity in accounting through “Queering” accounting pedagogy

Academic Articles

2024

Women Accountants and Wellbeing

Chapters

2024

Diversity at the top: Evidence on board composition and representation

Research and expertise

Research Medal

2023

Research and expertise