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, IPSAS and public financial 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). Co-chair of CIGAR PhD seminars from 2007 to 2019. Editor of the (CIGAR) book Implementing Reforms in Public Sector Accounting, Coimbra University Press (2008). CIGAR Newsletter editorial member. 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 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 Research Professor in Accounting at the Nord University (Norway) and part-time professor at Kristianstad University (Sweden) and Kozminski University (Poland). Giuseppe’s diverse research focuses on governmental accounting, hybrid forms of governance and performance of knowledge intensive public organizations, state owned enterprises and smart cities. He has extensive experience in conducting country and comparative studies with scholars from different disciplines. He collaborates as expert with national and local governments, Supreme Audit Institutions, and the European Court of Auditors. Giuseppe’s publications appear in leading accounting and public management journals. He is in the editorial board and has been guest editor of several special issues in public management and in interdisciplinary accounting journals. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management (Emerald). This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Anne Stafford is a Professor of Accounting 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 Department Economic Analysis and Accounting at Nord University Business School, Bodø, 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, issues of budgeting and long-term planning in the private and in the public sectors, international education cooperation. As a project manager at the High North Center for Business and Governance (Nord University Business School), he is involved in the fundraising and project management activities for international education and research projects directed towards Ukraine and Russia. 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.









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