Curriculum Vitae

Academic appointments

January 2022 - present: Full Professor of Financial Reporting, Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen & Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 2021 - present: Academic Director of Accounting, Auditing & Control, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
July 2019 – present: Associate Professor of Financial Accounting, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Feb 2020 - present: Visiting Professor, Anton de Kom University, Paramaribo, Suriname
Nov 2018 – present: Visiting Professor, WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany
Sep 2014 – present: Full Member ERIM Research Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Sep 2014 – June 2019: Assistant Professor of Financial Accounting, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Sep 2012 – Aug 2014: Assistant Professor of Financial Accounting, HEC Paris, France
June 2007 – Aug 2012: Research Associate, Chair of Finance and Capital Markets, Trier University, Germany

Jun 2007 – Aug 2012: Doctor rerum politicarum (Ph.D.), with honors (summa cum laude), Trier University, Trier, Germany
Sep 2011 – Aug 2012: Visiting scholar, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Mar 2009 – Aug 2010: Visiting scholar, HEC Paris, Paris, France
Apr 2002 – Apr 2007 : Dipl. Math.-oec. (M.Sc. equivalent in Mathematics and Finance), GPA: Excellent (top 3%), Trier University, Trier, Germany

Disclosure regulation; executive compensation; corporate governance; boards; succession planning

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Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and Capital Markets

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Member of the scientific committee of the European Accounting Association (2016-2018, 2020-2022)
Member of the American Accounting Association, European Accounting Association, European Finance Association, German Finance Association (DGF)
Journal referee for Journal of Accounting Research; Journal of International Business Studies; Management Science; Accounting, Organizations and Society; European Accounting Review; Accounting and Business Research, Accounting Forum, Journal of International Accounting Research; Comptabilité, Control et Audit, Emerging Markets Review, Journal of Business Economics
Conference referee for AAA, CAAA, DGF, EAA, FARS, GEABA, IAS and others

Chair of the Program Committee Economics & Business Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics (since 2023)
Member of the Program Committee Economics & Business Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics (since 2018)
Academic Director of the MSc in Accounting, Auditing, and Control (since 2021)
Member of the management team of the Accounting, Auditing and Control section (since 2016)
Master thesis coordinator (since 2019)
Bachelor thesis coordinator (2019-2021)
Course coordinator Intermediate Accounting and Seminar Corporate Governance (2015-2019 and 2020-today)
Organizer of the accounting research seminar series (2016/2017)
Organizer of the accounting research seminar series (2013/2014) at HEC Paris

Best Paper Award of the American Accounting Association in 2022 for “Financial Market Deregulation”
Best Paper Award of the CCGAR Research Camp on Auditing and Accounting in 2019 for “Returning CEOs”
Best Paper Award of the American Accounting Association’s International Accounting Section in 2013 for “Evidence on the Impact of Adopting English as an External Reporting Language on Foreign Investment, Liquidity, and Analyst Following“
German Research Foundation Scholarship (about USD 160,000); full position funded by the German Research Foundation for dissertation project “Corporate Risk Management in Europe”; Trier University and University of Chicago; November 2010 – April 2012
Marie Curie Research Training Network Scholarship (about USD 80,000); full position funded by the European Commission’s 6th Framework Marie Curie; fellow of the INTACCT Research Network; HEC Paris; March 2009 – August 2010
Erasmus Scholarships for Teaching Assignments at ESSCA Graduate School of Management in Angers, France; October 2008-2010 and 2012-2018

Financial Accounting Research at ESE Rotterdam (M.Sc.): evaluations (out of 5): 4.45 (2020); 4.83 (2019); 4.56 (2018); 4.73 (2017); 4.89 (2016); 4.67 (2015)
Intermediate Financial Accounting at ESE Rotterdam (B.Sc.): evaluations (out of 5): 4.34 (2020), 4.27 (2019); 4.48 (2018); 4.68 (2017); 3.70 (2016); 4.73 (2015)
Corporate Governance at at ESE Rotterdam (M.Sc.): no evaluations yet
Accounting and Financial Analysis at WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management (M.Sc.): no evaluations yet
Advanced Econometrics at WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management (M.Sc.): evaluation (out of 5): 4.0 (2019); 4.55 (2018)
Supervision of about 100 Master theses and 20 Bachelor theses at ESE Rotterdam

Financial Accounting and Reporting at HEC Paris (M.Sc.): evaluations (out of 5): 4.68 (2013), 4.21 (2012)
Financial Accounting and Reporting at HEC Paris (MBA): evaluations (out of 5): 4.25 (2013), 4.17 (2012)
Financial Accounting and Reporting at HEC Paris (Executive MBA): evaluation (out of 5): 4.14 (2014)
Financial Accounting and Reporting at HEC Paris (PhD): evaluation (out of 5): 5.00 (2014)