Christine Cooper

Christine Cooper is a Professor of Accounting at Edinburgh University. She is the recipient of a British Accounting and Finance Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Her research is concerned with the economic, political and social impact of accounting on our everyday lives.  This has produced publications in diverse social arenas such us, social and environmental accounting and gender among others. She has published her work in well recognized academic journals, including Accounting Organization and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting or Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal.

She is co-editor of the journal Critical Perspectives on Accounting and she is on several editorial boards including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, and Accounting Forum. 

Mauricio Gómez Villegas

Mauricio Gómez Villegas is Doctor in Accounting and master’s in accounting, Auditing and Management Control from Universidad de Valéncia (Spain). Master’s in administration and Public Accountant from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Associate Professor at the School of Administration and Public Accountancy, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He was Vice-accountant of Contaduria General de la Nación (Colombia), member of the Commission for Quality Assurance for Higher Education in Colombia and advisor to Technical Council of Public Accountancy (accounting standard-setting body in Colombia).

Researcher in senior level by Science and Technology System of Colombia (Colciencias). Visiting scholar at Universidad de Burgos (Spain), Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (Mexico), Universidad de El Salvador and Universidad ORT(Uruguay). National Accounting Research Award in Colombia (2003). He was general editor of Innovar Journal. He has been guest editor at Public Money & Management. Author in several national and international journals such as Sustainability, Public Administration and Development, Innovar, Cuadernos de Administración, among others.