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ACCA and research

As the largest and fastest-growing global professional accountancy body, ACCA operates in a challenging environment: which is continually evolving and increasingly competitive. Augmenting ACCA's strong position in a worldwide market is ACCA's well-respected research programme, generating high-profile, high-quality, cutting-edge research with global focus, wide dissemination and strong emphasis on public policy influence and practical value.

ACCA research committee

ACCA's research committee brings together some of the leading figures in the profession from around the world. Respected thinkers drawn from academia and the wider profession come together regularly with ACCA employees to inform and maintain the quality, relevance and freshness of ACCA's research programme.

Together, ACCA's research committee members represent a formidable strength, allowing ACCA to address with confidence the most important issues emerging in business and the finance profession today. All members of ACCA's research committee are known for their continuing, active contribution to the finance profession. With strong international reputations, members provide ACCA with an enviable mix of research specialisms, knowledge and expertise from which to draw when commissioning research to inform policy and standard setting in many places around the world.

Adrian Berendt
Adrian is joint managing director of LA Risk and Financial Ltd.
Jane Broadbent
Jane is deputy vice chancellor at Roehampton University.
Sara Carter
Sara is professor of entrepreneurship and director of the Entrepreneurship Research Centre, University of Stirling.
Barry Cooper, chair
Barry is professor of accounting education in the School of Accounting and Law at RMIT University, Melbourne.
Clement Ebinum
Clement is in practice as a registered auditor with a mixed client base. He is also a member of ACCA Council.
Günther Gebhardt
Günther holds the chair of accounting and auditing at Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Universität Frankfurt am Main and is currently the chairman of the accounting department in the faculty of business administration and economics.
David Guy
David is head of knowledge transfer at the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council).
Elaine Harris
Elaine is professor and head of the department of accounting and finance, and head of postgraduate studies in the Faculty of Business and Law at De Montfort University.
Roger Hussey
Roger is dean of the Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Rajun Jugurnath
Rajun is the auditor general of Mauritius and a member of ACCA Council.
Lazaros Lazarou
Lazaros is accountant general of the Republic of Cyprus and a member of ACCA Council.
Richard Murphy
Richard is director of Tax Research LLP. He is also a visiting fellow at Portsmouth Business School and at the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex.
Maurice Pendlebury
Maurice is a professor of accounting at Cardiff Business School.
Steve Priddy
Steve is associate director of Arup Group Ltd.
Jeffrey Unerman
Jeffrey is professor of accounting and corporate accountability at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Peter Walton, vice-chair
Peter is a professor at the Open University, and editor of World Accounting Report.
Jason Zezhong Xiao
Jason is professor of accounting at Cardiff Business School.
Caroline Oades, secretariat
Caroline is head of research at ACCA in London.

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