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# Members

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[Complete list of department members](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnUnite.php?UnId=240&LanCode=37&menu=equi)

## Teachers

- Antonio Davila
- Profile
- Research areas
- Assistants

Antonio Davila
Profile
Research areas
Assistants

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|  | [Antonio Davila](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1240106&LanCode=37 "Antonio Davila")  - Director of the department, Full Professor,    Co-director of the MCCF    Anthropole, office 3025    +41 21 692 61 02 |

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](https://www.unil.ch/files/live/sites/dcc/files/Davila%20Antonio-CV232-2023-jahia.pdf "Davila Antonio-CV232-2023-jahia.pdf (Microsoft Word - CV-022123)")

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

[Ilias Lahrach](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1283324&LanCode=8) - Graduate Assistant

- Garen Markarian
- Profile
- Research areas
- Assistants

Garen Markarian
Profile
Research areas
Assistants

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|  | [Garen Markarian](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1228383&LanCode=37 "Garen Markarian")  - Full Professor    Anthropole, Office 3015    +41 21 692 61 03 |

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](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1181404&LanCode=37) - Doctoral Student

[Anita Nikkhah](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1203262&LanCode=37) - Graduate Assistant

- Gaia Melloni
- Profile
- Research areas
- Assistants

Gaia Melloni
Profile
Research areas
Assistants

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|  | [Gaia Melloni](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1216756&LanCode=37 "Gaia Melloni")  - Associate Professor    Anthropole, office 3024    +41 21 692 61 04 |

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

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|  | [Daniel Oyon](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=810333&LanCode=37 "Daniel Oyon")  - Full Professor and Co-director of the MCCF  Anthropole, office 3031.1  +41 21 692 34 64 |

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](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1180244&LanCode=37) - Graduate Assistant

[Deborah Dulex](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1204518&LanCode=37) - Graduate Assistant

- Nicolas Rudolf
- Profile
- Research areas
- Assistants

Nicolas Rudolf
Profile
Research areas
Assistants

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|  | [Nicolas Rudolf](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1228544&LanCode=37 "Nicolas Rudolf")  - Associate Professor  Anthropole, office 3023    +41 21 692 34 56 |

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](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1253951&LanCode=37) - Graduate assistant

[Kan Wu](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1256780&LanCode=8) - Doctoral student

- Alain Schatt
- Profile
- Research areas
- Assistants

Alain Schatt
Profile
Research areas
Assistants

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|  | [Alain Schatt](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1138798&LanCode=37 "Alain Schatt")  - Full Professor  Anthropole, office 3013    +41 21 692 33 63 |

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](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1239763&LanCode=37) - Graduate Assistant

[Xingyue Zhan](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1242172&LanCode=37) - Doctoral Student

## Doctoral and post-doctoral students

- Rémi Bel
- Research areas

Rémi Bel
Research areas

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|  | [Rémi Bel](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1239763&LanCode=37 "Rémi Bel")  - Graduate Assistant  Anthropole, Office 3019    +41 21 692 61 05 |

- Influence of human capital on performance
- Corporate governance
- Audit

- Deborah Dulex
- Research areas

Deborah Dulex
Research areas

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|  | [Deborah Dulex](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1204518&LanCode=37 "Deborah Dulex")  - Graduate Assistant  Anthropole, Office 3026    +41 21 692 61 01 |

- Shareholder structure
- Indépendency
- Strategic management

- Youssef El Fassi
- Research areas

Youssef El Fassi
Research areas

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|  | [Youssef El Fassi](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1180244&LanCode=37 "Youssef El Fassi")  - Graduate Assistant  Anthropole, office 3020.1    +41 21 692 33 83 |

- Corporate, Strategic and Operational Management
- Management accounting

- Alessandra Maria Gargiulo
- Research areas

Alessandra Maria Gargiulo
Research areas

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|  | [Alessandra Maria Gargiulo](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1253951&LanCode=37 "Alessandra Maria Gargiulo")  - Graduate Assistant    Anthropole Anthropole, office 3026    +41 21 692 61 01 |

- Green finance and investment
- ESG bonds
- Investment à impact

- Ilias Lahrach
- Research areas

Ilias Lahrach
Research areas

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|  | [Ilias Lahrach](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1283324&LanCode=37 "Ilias Lahrach")  - Graduate Assistant    Anthropole Anthropole, office 3020.1    +41 21 692 33 83 |

- Farah Mejri
- Research areas

Farah Mejri
Research areas

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|  | [Farah Mejri](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1193106&LanCode=37 "Farah Mejri")  - Senior SNSF Researcher  Anthropole, Office 3026    +41 21 692 61 01 |

- Gender
- Innovation
- Strategic Management

- Anita Nikkhah
- Research areas

Anita Nikkhah
Research areas

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|  | [Anita Nikkhah](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1203262&LanCode=37 "Anita Nikkhah")  - Graduate Assistant  Anthropole, Ofice 3020    +41 21 692 61 06 |

Her areas of research:

- Sona Vardanyan
- Research areas

Sona Vardanyan
Research areas

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|  | [Sona Vardanyan](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1181404&LanCode=37 "Sona Vardanyan")  - Doctoral Student |

- Financial markets
- Financial accounting

- Kan Wu
- Research areas

Kan Wu
Research areas

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|  | [Kan Wu](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1256780&LanCode=8 "Kan Wu")  - Doctoral Student    Anthropole, office 3020    +41 21 692 61 06 |

- Xingyue Zhan
- Research areas

Xingyue Zhan
Research areas

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|  | [Xingyue Zhan](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1242172&LanCode=37 "Xingyue Zhan")  - Doctoral Student    Anthropole, office 3012    +41 21 692 61 00 |

- Audit quality
- Audit partner expertise
- Learning

## Employees

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|  | [Fabienne Hanlon](https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1114032&LanCode=37 "Fabienne Hanlon")  - Executive Secretary    Anthropole Anthropole, office 3035    +41 21 692 33 12  Present on Tuesday all day,    Wednesday, Thursday, Friday mornings only |

## 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

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|  | Alfred Stettler   - Honorary Professor |