Joint Chairholders
Zvi Singer is a Professor of Accounting, and a joint Research Chair in Auditing, Society and Governance at HEC Montréal. His research interests include financial reporting, auditing, societal and environmental issues in accounting, and regulatory impacts on accounting practices. His research has addressed a wide range of topics, such as the treatment of minority audit partners at audit firms, the quality of earnings forecasts made by companies with female CEOs, and the effect of environmental assurance.
His work has been published in top accounting journals, such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations, and Society. He also serves as an Editorial Board member for Contemporary Accounting Research. Zvi also serves as a member of the Academic Advisory Panel to the Canadian Accounting Standards Board.
He teaches accounting in the undergraduate, Master’s, MBA, and PhD programs at HEC. Before joining HEC Montréal in 2016, he served on the faculty at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management. Professor Singer earned his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007, and his MBA from Washington University in St. Louis in 1997.
Anna Samsonova-Taddei is a Professor of Accounting and a joint Research Chair in Auditing, Society and Governance at HEC Montréal. Over the years, Anna’s research has focused on a wide range of topics concerning various developments in audit practice and regulation, including the advancement of new technologies, sustainability-focused forms of assurance, audit regulatory reforms at both national and transnational levels, among others.
Anna’s work has appeared in journals, such as: Accounting, Organizations and Society; Organization Studies; Journal of Business Ethics; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability journal; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Accounting and Business Research; Behavioral Research in Accounting, among others. She also serves as an Associate Editor and Editorial Board member for several of these journals. Anna’s research has featured in regulatory debates informing audit policy in various jurisdictions, including those held by regulatory bodies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (US); the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (UK), and the Financial Reporting Council (UK).
Anna also serves as a member of the Academic Advisory Panel for the Canadian Accounting Standards Board.