As of the 17th CIGAR Biennial Conference held in Amsterdam, June 13-14 2019, the Network changed its governance. From now on, it will have an Executive Board (members: Tjerk Budding, Josette Caruana, Sandra Cohen, Giuseppe Grossi and Anne Stafford) chaired by Susana Jorge, and an Advisory Board (members: Anatoli Bourmistrov, Isabel Brusca, Eugenio Caperchione, Mark Christensen, Johan Christiaens, Dorothea Greiling, Ron Hodges, Hassan Ouda, Jan van Helden, Kiyoshi Yamamoto).
Executive board
Susana Jorge (Chair of the Executive Board) PhD in Accounting & Finance (Local Government Accounting), MSc in Business Management (Corporate Finance). Tenured Professor with Accreditation at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal), teaching Public Sector Accounting and Financial Business Accounting. Researcher at CICP – Research Centre in Political Science, University of Minho (Portugal). Research interests: public sector accounting and management, especially focusing on financial reporting in the Local Government. Between February 2013 and October 2017 was member of the Public Sector Accounting Standards Committee (CNCP) of the Portuguese Accounting Standards-Setting Commission, participating in the legislation adopting IPSASs to the Portuguese context. Chair of the CIGAR Biennial Conferences in 2007 (20th anniversary of the Network) and 2017 (30th anniversary of the Network). Editor of the (CIGAR) book Implementing Reforms in Public Sector Accounting, Coimbra University Press (2008). This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tjerk Budding is a senior lecturer in Public Sector Accounting at VU University, The Netherlands. He is head of the postgraduate program for public sector CFOs in this institution. His research focuses on public sector management and financial accounting. Tjerk Budding published in leading international journals, such as Financial Accountability & Management and Management Accounting Research. Furthermore, he is co-author of the book Public Sector Accounting, which was published by Routledge in 2014. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Josette Caruana is a certified public accountant and a senior lecturer at the Department of Accountancy of the University of Malta. Her area of research interest is Public Sector Accounting, in particular, government accounting (to include financial reporting, auditing and budgeting at both central and local level) and national accounting. Josette has published in journals like Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, Accounting Forum and Public Money and Management. She has co-authored an edited book “Financial Sustainability of Public Sector Entities - the Relevance of Accounting Frameworks”, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Sandra Cohen is a Professor of Accounting in the Department of Business Administration at Athens University of Economics and Business. Her research interests lie in the fields of "Public Sector Accounting", "Management accounting" and “Intellectual Capital”. Her research work has been published, among others, in Acccounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal,Financial Accountability and Management, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Accounting Forum, Omega, European Journal of Operational Research and has been presented in several international conferences. She is a member of the Hellenic Accounting and Auditing Standards Oversight Board (Greek National Accounting Standards Setter) and Co-chair to the XII Permanent Study Group “Public Sector Financial Management” of EGPA. She has participated in several consulting projects for both the private sector and the public sector and she has been a member of the research team in several EC founded projects. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Giuseppe Grossi is PhD and Professor in Public Management and Accounting at the School of Health and Society, Kristianstad University (Sweden) and Research Professor at Kozminski University (Poland). Grossi's research focuses on public governance, performance budgeting and management, hybrid organizations, smart cities, and internationalization of public sector accounting. Grossi recently published the book, Public Sector Accounting, with two colleagues (Routledge, 2015). This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Anne Stafford is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. She is a member of the ACCA's Global Forum for the Public Sector and a committee member of the BAFA (British Accounting and Finance Association) Special Interest Group for Public Services and Charities. Her research interests include financial analysis of public policy, particularly in relation to Public-Private Partnerships, public sector corporate governance and accountability, and disciplinary perspectives on the relationship between professional development and academic knowledge in accounting. Her work has been cited in submissions to governments, the OECD and the World Bank. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Advisory board
Anatoli Bourmistrov, is Professor and Head of Accounting and Management Control Section at University of Nordland Business School, Norway. He is a co-author of several books and articles associated with topics of accounting reforms in the public sector, especially from a comparative perspective between Norway and Russia, issues of budgeting and planning in the private and in the public sectors, international education cooperation as well as international cooperation in the field of energy. As a project manager at the High North Center (University of Nordland Business School), he is involved in the fundraising and project management activities for international education and research projects directed towards Russia and Ukraine. He received the David Solomons Prize, sponsored by the Charted Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), for the best paper in the annual volume of Management Accounting Research for 2013. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Isabel Brusca is a Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Her research and professional interest is focused on public administration accountability and management and audit. She has participated in numerous research projects in this field and is the author of several books and papers in prestigious journals. She has been consultant of the Committee on Local and Regional Democracy (CDLR) of the Council of Europe This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Eugenio Caperchione, Ph.D. is a professor of Public Management in the Department of Economics Marco Biagi in Modena and Reggio Emilia University. His main research area is public sector accounting, and he privileges the comparative approach. He has published extensively on this subject, and has taken intensively in the work of CIGAR and of EGPA. He has been a visiting professor or visiting scholar in Kristianstad (Sweden), Poitiers (France), Klagenfurt (Austria), Lima (Peru). This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mark Christensen is Associate Dean at Southern Cross University, Australia. His research focuses on public sector accounting with special reference to accrual accounting including in journals Accounting, Organizations and Society, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Financial Accountability & Management, Management, the European Accounting Review, the Australian Accounting Review, Accounting History and other respected journals. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Johan Christiaens is professor in Accountancy at Ghent University, Department of Public Governance, Management and Finance. He is registered auditor at EY Belgium and participates in different public and non-profit sector commissions. He is director of the Accounting Research Public Sector (ARPS) Ghent University - EY. His teaching and researching areas include governmental and not-for-profit accounting, reporting and auditing. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Dorothea Greiling is a professor at the faculty of Social Sciences, Economics and Business at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. She is head of the Institute for Management Accounting. Her main research focuses on public accountability, performance management in the public and non-profit sector and reforms in reporting. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Ron Hodges is Professor Emeritus of Accounting at the University of Birmingham. His research interests are within public sector financial reporting, including public private partnerships, audit and accounting regulation and the reporting of obligations arising from government guarantees. He has served in the past on the CIGAR Executive Board and the UK Financial Reporting Advisory Board. He has acted as an advisor for the NAO expert group on social housing and for a parliamentary inquiry into local public audit.
Hassan Ouda is Professor of Accounting in the Faculty of Management Technology at the German University in Cairo (GUC). His research interests are in the areas of public sector accounting and budgeting reform (with a special attention to the implementation of accrual accounting and budgeting and performance budgeting) and the performance audit. He has more than 52 publications: refereed articles in the international journals, book chapters in International books and papers in the proceedings of international conferences. He is the editor of International Journal on Government Financial Management- USA. Since March 2013 he is member of the Public Sector Accounting Standards Committee-ICGFM. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Jan van Helden has been an academic staff member of the Faculty of Economics (an recently the Faculty of Economics and Business) of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands since 1991, initially as an associate professor and since the beginning of 1999 as a professor in management accounting (and emeritus professor since September 2010). From September 2001 until September 2005 he also has been vice-dean of the Faculty of Economics. In that capacity, the Faculty’s teaching activities were his responsibility. 
Kiyoshi Yamamoto is Professor of Financial Management, Graduate School of Education at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and was formerly the director for the Center for National University Finance and Management. Dr. Yamamoto served as Director in the Board of Audit before moving into academics. His main research includes public sector management and accounting, higher education management and policy. Now as an advisor, he has worked for the Japanese Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and other government organizations including local governments. Recent book is ‘Prometheus Assessed?’ coauthored by Shaun Goldfinch in April 2012, Chandos Publishing. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.CIGAR board members up to June 2019
Eugenio Caperchione (Chairman of the CIGAR Board)
Anatoli Bourmistrov
Isabel Brusca
Tjerk Budding
Josette Caruana
Mark Christensen
Johan Christiaens
Sandra Cohen
Dorothea Greiling
Giuseppe Grossi
Susana Jorge
Hassan Ouda
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Anne Stafford
Kiyoshi Yamamoto