Afshin MEHRPOUYA

Associate Professor

Accounting and Management Control

Biography

Afshin Mehrpouya is an associate professor of accounting and management control systems at HEC Paris. Trained as a medical doctor in Iran, Afshin also holds an MBA and PhD in management. His research is broadly in role of performance measurement in transnational governance. He currently studies the construction and use of different calculative knowledge forms such as rankings and ratings in transnational governance regimes. He is a member of the editorial board of Accounting, Organizations and Society. Prior to starting his academic career Afshin had years of experience in the design of environmental and social rankings and ratings. He has advised a range of development and sustainability related initiatives such as Access to Medicine Index, Aid Transparency Index, Medicines Transparency Alliance, Access to Nutrition Index and Responsible Mining Index.

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Education

2011
Ph.D. in Business Administration, ESSEC - France
2007
Master of Business Administration, Schulich School of Business, York University - Canada
2000
Medical Doctorate, Tehran University of Medical Sciences - Iran

Academic appointments

Academic responsabilities at HEC

2017- Associate Professor, Accounting and Management Control HEC Paris
2011-2017 Assistant Professor HEC Paris
2015- Member of GREGHEC (CNRS) HEC Paris

External Academic Responsabilities

2017- Associate Researcher - Global foresight Stockholm centre for organizational research (SCORE)
2010-2010 Visiting Scholar Center for Analysis of Risk & Regulations (CARR), London School of Economics and Political Sciences

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

European Group for Organization Studies
European Accounting Association
Academy of Management
Consulting for the office of the French Prime Minister in CSR and related topics - Plateforme RSE - France Strategie
President of the jury for FIR/PRI Research Prize

Editorial activities

October 2017- Member of the editorial board, Accounting, Organizations and Society

Conference organisation

Member of Research Committee for Critical Perspectives on AccountingMember of Research Committee for Critical Perspectives on Accounting

2013-2013 Member, Organizing Committee, 3rd Global Conference on Transparency Research - HEC Paris

2013-2016 Summer workshop in qualitative methodologies

Awards & honors

2010 Eurosif (European Sustainable Investments Forum) - Prize for research proposal - Marketization of ethics; does it work? Exploring the scenarios where firms social behavior is not reflected in its market performance