Members

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Complete list of department members

Teachers

• Antonio Davila
• Profile
• Research areas
• Assistants

Antonio Davila Profile Research areas Assistants

Antonio Davila is professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) of the University of Lausanne since 2021.

Before joining HEC, he taught at IESE Business School, Harvard Business School, and Stanford GSB. He has also been visiting professor at Oxford University and CEIBS. He has a doctorate from the Harvard Business School.

His research focuses on the role of management control systems for strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He also does research in the field of professional sports management. His books Making Innovation Work and The Innovation Paradox are highly cited in the field of innovation. His textbooks on managerial accounting (Malea Fashion District) and sports management (Sports Business Management) are well-appreciated in the classrooms. He is now working on a new book on designing systems to spot strategic opportunities for companies to take advantages of changes in their markets.

His academic research has been published in top journals in management and accounting including Academy of Management Journal, Accounting Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Research Policy, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, European Accounting Review, and Accounting, Organizations, and Society.

He is engaged with companies from startups to large multinationals as an adviser, board member, and consultant. As a result of this collaboration, he has published many teaching cases.

Complete CV of Antonio Davila

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Performance Measurement and Control Systems
• Strategy implementation
• Sports management

Ilias Lahrach - Graduate Assistant

• Garen Markarian
• Profile
• Research areas
• Assistants

Garen Markarian Profile Research areas Assistants

His research interests cover corporate governance, executive compensation, insider trading, and current asset value. He also specialises in financial accounting, accounting theory, financial statement analysis, corporate finance and private equity.

• Effects on stock prices and earnings
• Insider trading
• Effects of tax cuts
• Job acts

Sona Vardanyan - Doctoral Student

Anita Nikkhah - Graduate Assistant

• Gaia Melloni
• Profile
• Research areas
• Assistants

Gaia Melloni Profile Research areas Assistants

Gaia Melloni is Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and Control at HEC of University of Lausanne since 2019 and an interdisciplinary researcher in fields of accounting and corporate sustainability and the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in corporate reporting.

After receiving her PhD in Economics and Management at the Graduate School of Economics and Management of the University of Padua, Venice and Verona in 2013, she worked at Bocconi University and Norwich Business School (University of East Anglia).

She has also been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Erasmus Rotterdam University and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Her research has been published in international journals (e.g., Strategic Management Journal, European Accounting Review, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy) and has received funding and awards (Horizon 2020 and Sandoz Family Foundation, among the main ones).

She has also consulted for the European Parliament and the United Nations on sustainability reporting issues. She serves in board of directors and ESG commitees.

• sustainability
• accounting
• integrated and sustainability reporting
• corporate sustainability
• ESG
• greenwashing
• corporate governance
• textual analysis

• impression management

• Daniel Oyon

• Profile
• Research areas
• Assistants

Daniel Oyon Profile Research areas Assistants

His fields of research and teaching are focused on the structure and formal systems of management and governance that are conceived and implemented to improve the performance, the management and the innovation of companies.

Youssef El Fassi - Graduate Assistant

Deborah Dulex - Graduate Assistant

• Nicolas Rudolf
• Profile
• Research areas
• Assistants

Nicolas Rudolf Profile Research areas Assistants

Nicolas Rudolf is an Associate Professor of Accounting. He holds a doctoral degree in Accounting from the University of Mannheim. Nicolas Rudolf’s research interests include bank accounting and regulation, corporate governance, and manager characteristics. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as the European Accounting Review and the Journal of Finance. He teaches courses on Accounting for Financial Instruments and Creative Accounting and Financial Scandals. Nicolas Rudolf is a Research Fellow at the TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency trans-regional Collaborative Research Center and has professional experience with EY and KPMG in various roles.

• Bank Accounting
• Corporate Governance
• Manager Characteristics

Alessandra Maria Gargiulo - Graduate assistant

Kan Wu - Doctoral student

• Alain Schatt
• Profile
• Research areas
• Assistants

Alain Schatt Profile Research areas Assistants

Alain Schatt focuses on corporate governance issues. His research work has been published in several academic journals (Accounting in Europe, Auditing: A Journal of Theory and Practice, European Accounting Review, International Journal of Auditing, Journal of Accounting Literature, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization). He has also published numerous articles in professional journals (Expert Focus, Revue Française de Comptabilité, Revue Française de Gouvernance d'Entreprise). Lastly, he has taken on a number of institutional responsibilities (Director of IAE Strasbourg, Vice-Dean of HEC Lausanne, Co-founder and Chairman of the International Corporate Governance Association, etc.).

• Corporate governance
• Economic consequences of accounting and financial regulations
• The audit market

Rémi Bel - Graduate Assistant

Xingyue Zhan - Doctoral Student

Doctoral and post-doctoral students

• Rémi Bel
• Research areas

Rémi Bel Research areas

• Influence of human capital on performance
• Corporate governance

• Audit

• Deborah Dulex

• Research areas

Deborah Dulex Research areas

• Shareholder structure
• Indépendency

• Strategic management

• Youssef El Fassi

• Research areas

Youssef El Fassi Research areas

• Corporate, Strategic and Operational Management

• Management accounting

• Alessandra Maria Gargiulo

• Research areas

Alessandra Maria Gargiulo Research areas

• Green finance and investment
• ESG bonds

• Investment à impact

• Ilias Lahrach

• Research areas

Ilias Lahrach Research areas

• Farah Mejri
• Research areas

Farah Mejri Research areas

• Gender
• Innovation

• Strategic Management

• Anita Nikkhah

• Research areas

Anita Nikkhah Research areas

Her areas of research:

• Sona Vardanyan
• Research areas

Sona Vardanyan Research areas

• Financial markets

• Financial accounting

• Kan Wu

• Research areas

Kan Wu Research areas

• Xingyue Zhan
• Research areas

Xingyue Zhan Research areas

• Audit quality
• Audit partner expertise
• Learning

Employees

Former doctoral graduates

2025

Farah MEJRI

(supervisor Antonio Davila)

Jiawei LU

(supervisor Antonio Davila)

Huajuan YUAN

(supervisor Antonio Davila)

2024

Arianna PISCIELLA

(supervisor Gaia Melloni)

Ismail EL FASSI

(supervisor Daniel Oyon)

2023

Hrvoje KURTOVIC

(supervisor Garen Markarian)

2020

Valeria VOLPENTESTA

(supervisor Paul André)

Adam AOUN

(supervisor Alain Schatt)

Anastasia BORISOVA (-DOBSON)

(supervisor Paul André)

Allister KEANE

(supervisor Alain Schatt)

2018

Romain OBERSON

(supervisor Minyue Dong)

2017

Maël SCHNEGG

(supervisor Daniel Oyon)

2016

Cédric PORETTI

(supervisor Alain Schatt)

2015

Giovanni Battista DERCHI

(supervisor Daniel Oyon)

2014

Karl SCHUHMACHER

(supervisor Michael Burkert)

2012

Anton YANOCHKIN

(supervisor Daniel Oyon)

Jialu SHAN

(supervisor Minyue Dong)

Felix CARDENAS

(supervisor Daniel Oyon)

2010

Florian HOOS

(supervisor Anne D'Arcy)

2009

Raul BARROSO

(supervisor Daniel Oyon)

2006

Minyue DONG

(supervisor Alfred Stettler)

Vedran CAPKUN

(supervisor L.A. Weiss)

2003

Thierry KENEL

(supervisor Alfred Stettler)

2001

Stella MOORAJ

(supervisor Daniel Oyon)

Emeriti