Venuti Francesco | ESCP Business School

Francesco Venuti

Associate Professor of Accounting, Financial and Sustainability Reporting and Business Administration

Department : Financial Reporting & Audit
Campus : Turin

Francesco Venuti is the Associate Dean for the Executive MBA and the General Manage-ment Programme (GMP) at ESCP Business School. He is a permanent faculty member and an Associate Professor of Accounting in the Financial Reporting and Audit (FRA) Depart-ment. Francesco is also the Academic Director of the Specialised Master in International Food & Beverage Management (IFBM – DEAMIE) and of the Food & Beverage Specialisation for the Master in Management (MIM) in Turin. His research focuses on financial accounting and sustainability reporting, particularly for insurance companies and the food and beverage sector. He is also experienced in teaching innovation and behavioural accounting. Francesco is a member of the Accounting for Banking and Insurance Research Lab (ABIREL) and the European Accounting Association (EAA). He teaches financial accounting, sustainability reporting, and business administration across graduate, undergraduate, and executive programmes – including academic, custom, and open-enrolment courses. He is the Academic Director of the Executive MBA at ESA Busi-ness School in Beirut, Lebanon, and an external lecturer at the University of Torino, SAA Business School, and ESA Business School. His expertise extends to financial accounting for banking and insurance companies. A cum laude graduate in Economics from the University of Torino, Francesco earned a PhD in Business and Management at the same institution. He completed the GCPCL (2019) and the CWW (2020) at Harvard Business School in Boston. Previously, he lectured at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen and the Politecnico of Torino. He also coordinated teaching innovation and external communication for Istituto Sociale and for the Fondazione GE. Cur-rently, besides his consulting activities, he sits on the Board of Directors and invests in sev-eral innovative start-ups.

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Accounting for Sustainability: Current Initiatives to Standardize ESG Reporting

ESCP Impact Papers, 2021-18-EN

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How to Improve Women’s Representation in Finance

PRESS · 10/03/2025

Despite finance being one of the highest-paying and most influential industries, women remain underrepresented. Professors Almudena Cañibano and Mario…

Teaching Award

2025

ESCP Business School Teaching Award 2025

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How to Improve Women’s Representation in Finance

PRESS · 10/03/2025

Despite finance being one of the highest-paying and most influential industries, women remain underrepresented. Professors Almudena Cañibano and Mario…

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2024

Cultured cuisine: The business of food from the lab

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2024

Biodiversity in Agri-Food Systems and the Role of Accounting for Biodiversity

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2024

ESG ratings: From fog to sunshine?

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2024

The Big Bang in EU Sustainability Reporting

Academic Articles

2023

Financial distress, auditors’ going concern modification (GCM) and investors’ reaction in a concentrated ownership environment: new evidence from the Italian stock market

ESCP Impact Papers

2023

ChatGPT is here to stay: How can higher education institutions benefit from it?

ESCP Impact Papers

2023

How to account for technological assets such as crypto-currencies?

ESCP Impact Papers

2022

International sustainability reporting standards: Competition or complementarity between different organizations and approaches?

Academic Articles

2021

Accountability for climate change: a research synthesis through the lenses of the integrated thinking approach

ESCP Impact Papers

2021

Accounting for Sustainability: Current Initiatives to Standardize ESG Reporting

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How to Improve Women’s Representation in Finance

Teaching Award

2025

Research and expertise

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How to Improve Women’s Representation in Finance