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20th EUFIN – The Conference of Accounting in Europe

Bristol 
August 28th & 29th, 2025

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19th EUFIN – The Conference of Accounting in Europe

August 29th and 30th, 2024

Bologna, Italy

Keynote speakers

Ana Simpson

IASB Technical Staff , IFRS Foundation

Matthew Tilling

Senior Project Manager, Uk Endorsement Board

Stuart Wills

Senior Finance Manager, BT Group

Stefano Zambon

Professor of Accounting and Business Administration/ Secretary General,  University of Ferrara/ Italian Foundation for Business Reporting (O.I.B.R.)

Charles H. Cho

Professor of Sustainability Accounting, Schulich School of Business

Hilary Eastman

Sustainability reporting & investor communications expert/ CEO, Uk Sustainability Disclosure Technical Advisory Committee/ Confluence Advisory Limited

Saskia Slomp

CEO, European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG)

Ella Thomson

Sustainability Manager, OVO Energy

Ann Jorissen

Professor of Financial and Management Accounting, University of Antwerp

Begoña Giner

Professor of Accounting and Finance, Universidad de València

Araceli Mora

Professor of Accounting and Finance / President, Universidad de València/ European Accounting Association

Prof. Christoph Spengel

University of Mannheim

Miguel Ribeirinho

Director of Corporate Affairs at Delta Cafés

Nuno Martins

Partner at PwC

Michael Wells

Imperial College Business School and UK Enforcement Board

Sponsors

The deadline for registration has now passed.

REGISTRATION DATES

Registration dates

Registration opened!

  • Early Bird Registration by July 25th: £200
  • Late Registration by August 1st: £250
  • PhD Registration: £125

VENUE – To be updated soon

University of Bristol Business School, Beacon House Queens Road Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK

University of Bristol Business

eufin-conference2025@bristol.ac.uk

Prof. Angela Pettinicchio (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

Panel on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) corporate reporting and disclosure

Angela Pettinicchio is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy). She obtained a degree in Economics and Business Law from Bocconi University. She then obtained a Master in Research and a PhD in Accounting from Cass Business School. She was a visiting lecturer at London Business School and taught Financial Accounting courses at Cass Business School in London.
Her works have been published in prestigious International Journals such as Auditing, a Journal of Practice and Theory, The European Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, Economic Bullettin, The Service Industry Journal, Corporate Reputation Review and Economia & Management.
She is a member of the Editorial Board of European Accounting Review, Accounting Forum, Accounting in Europe and Journal of Management and Governance and Associate Editor of Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance. She is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association, section “Auditing” and of EARNET (European Auditing Research Network).

Prof. Alessandro Ghio (FSA ULaval)

Panel on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) corporate reporting and disclosure

Alessandro Ghio, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Université Laval (Québec, Canada). Their research focuses on issues related to diversity in accounting (i.e., sexuality, gender and age) and corporate social media communication. They teach the courses “Accounting for Sustainability” and “Seminars in Accounting” and received the prestigious 2019 Global Award ‘Ideas Worth Teaching’ from the Aspen Institute (NYC, USA).

Alessandro is passionate about academic activism and they are co-initiators of the Queering Accounting and Working Women and Wellbeing groups. Alessandro is an editor of Accounting Horizons and a co-editor of the Journal of Management and Governance. They currently serve on the Financial Authority Market (Québec) – Financial Reporting Advisory Committee.

Prof. Maximilian Todtenhaupt (Leibniz University Hannover & Norwegian School of Economics)

Panel on Global trends in taxation

Maximilian Todtenhaupt is Professor of Public Finance at Leibniz University Hannover, an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and a Research Affiliate at CESifo. He obtained his PhD from the University of Mannheim in 2018.
His work focuses on the analysis of tax incentives for business activity as well as on international tax competition for mobile capital and the effect of taxation on corporate innovation and growth. He also studies the effect of capital income taxation on investment around the world. Maximilian Todtenhaupt is part of the Norwegian Centre for Taxation (NoCeT).

Prof. Christoph Spengel (University of Mannheim)

Panel on Global trends in taxation

Christoph Spengel is the Professor for International Business Taxation at the University of Mannheim and holds a Diploma in Business Economics (1990), Dr. rer. pol. (1995), Dr. rer. pol. habil. (2002). He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance, as well as a Director and Speaker of Leibniz Scientific Campus Mannheim, a Taxation Research Associate at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), and an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. Professor Spengel is also a member of the working party Taxation at Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft, and Academic Director of the Mannheim Master of Accounting and Taxation at Mannheim Business School. He is an appointed expert for taxation by the OECD, the European Commission, and the IMF, as well as by numerous German and foreign ministries. He is an expert for the German Federal Constitutional Court, the German Federal Parliament, and the European Parliament.
Professor Spengel is a member of the editorial boards of the World Tax Journal (WTJ), Steuer und Wirtschaft (StuW), and Die Unternehmensbesteuerung (Ubg). His main research interests are international taxation (tax planning, comparison, and evaluation of company tax burdens); company taxation in the European Union (tax harmonization, group taxation, profit allocation); and taxation and innovation and digitalization.