Ann Jorissen

Ann Jorissen (PhD) is Full Professor of Accounting at the University of Antwerp. She teaches financial and management accounting and management control at bachelor and advanced financial statement analysis and business valuation at master level. She is vice-dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Antwerp (2018-2024).

Her research interests relate to the field of financial reporting (the due process of standard setting), management control and corporate governance. She has published articles on these topics in international academic journals such as: Accounting, Organizations and Society; European Accounting Review; Management Accounting Research; Accounting and Business Research; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Accounting and Finance; Accounting in Europe; Corporate Governance: an international review; Human Relations; Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice; Family Business Review; Journal of Small Business Management; Journal of Family Business Strategy; Management Decision;  Journal of Small Business and Economic Development. 

She was co-founder and co-editor of the European Accounting Review from 1992 until 1997. She is currently on the editorial boards of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Accounting in Europe; Family Business Review; Journal of Management and Governance and the Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting.

She was President of the European Accounting Association from 2013 to 2015 and she currently chairs the EAA’s Financial Reporting Standards Committee (2020 -2026). She is a member of the High Council of the Economic Profession (Independent Supervisory Body of the Accounting and Audit Profession) in Belgium since 2018 and also served on this High Council earlier from 2004 to 2013. She was a member of the IFRS Advisory Council from 2015 up until 2020 and is a member of EFRAG’s Academic Panel since 2017.