Afshin Mehrpouya

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.

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, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris

External Academic Responsabilities

• 2017- Associate Researcher - Global foresightStockholm centre for organizational research (SCORE)
• 2010-2010 Visiting ScholarCenter for Analysis of Risk & Regulations (CARR), London School of Economics and Political Sciences

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

• 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
• European Accounting Association
• European Group for Organization Studies
• Academy of Management

Editorial activities

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

Conference organisation

• 2013-2013 Member, Organizing Committee, 3rd Global Conference on Transparency Research - HEC Paris
• 2013-2016 Summer workshop in qualitative methodologies
• Member of Research Committee for Critical Perspectives on AccountingMember of Research Committee for Critical Perspectives on Accounting

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