EDUCATION
• 1997:
Ph.D. in Accounting, Department of Management, University of Venezia, Cà Foscari
• 1994 April - June:
Visiting Ph.D. Student, Department of Accounting and Finance, City University Business School (Cass Business School) - (Prof. Richard Taffler), London
• 1994 February - March:
Visiting Student, Master in International finance, City University Business School (Cass Business School), London
• 1991:
Laurea in Statistics, University of Padova, Italy. Degree awarded with distinction.

CURRENT APPOINTMENT
• November 2014:
Professor of Accounting, Department of Business and Management, LUISS University – LUISS Business School, Roma

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS (AND VISITING POSITION)
• 2005 October – 2014 October:
Professor of Accounting, Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova
• 2012 January:
Visiting Professor, Department of Accounting, University of Siviglia
• 2011 March:
Visiting Professor, Department of Accounting, University of Siviglia
• 2005 June:
Research Visiting Professor, Department of Accounting, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
• 2004 March:
Research Visiting Professor, Department of Accounting, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
• 2002 October – 2005 September:
Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Padova
• 1998 March – 2002 September:
Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Padova, Italy
• 1992 January – June:
Internship, Industrial Finance Division, Bank of England, London

AFFILIATIONS
• Fellow, European Accounting Association
• Fellow, American Accounting Association

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• 2014 January - … : Associate Editor, Accounting and Business Research
• 2011 January - … : Co-Editor, The International Journal of Accounting
• 2010 January - …: Co-Editor, Financial Reporting – Italian based Journal -

• 2013 January – 2015 December: Book Review Editor, European Accounting Association

PAST EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• 2006 November – 2010 December: Editorial Board Member, The International Journal of Accounting
• 2008 January – 2011 December: Editorial Board Member, European Accounting Review

REFEREEING ACTIVITY
Abacus; Accounting and Business Research; British Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; Economia & Management; European Accounting Review; Financial Reporting; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Journal of Applied Accounting Research; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Journal of Management and Governance; Management Research News; Managerial Auditing Journal; Pacific Accounting Review; Review of Accounting Studies; Rivista Dottori Commercialisti; Rivista Italiana di Economia Aziendale; The International Journal of Accounting

OTHER SERVICE ACTIVITIES (MAIN)
• 2015 – 2017 Component of the Management Committee of the European Accounting Association
• 2015 – 2017 Treasurer of the European Accounting Association

• External Examiner for PhD Thesis
2015 University of Limerick
2015 IE University (Madrid)
2014 LUISS University (Rome)
2013 University of Firenze
2013 Aalto Business School (Helsinki)
2012 University of Udine
2012 Bocconi University (Milano)

• External Reviewer for Research Project Evaluation
2013 Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)
2014 Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)

• External Reviewer for Tenure Track Positions
2010 IE Business School (Madrid)
2013 Manchester Business School (Manchester)

• External Reviewer for ANVUR (VQR 2004 – 2010)

• Scientific Board Member
2016 EAA Conference (Manstricht)
2015 EAA Conference (Glasgow)
2014 EAA Conference (Tallin)
2013 Financial Reporting Workshop (Roma)
2012 EAA Conference (Paris)
2012 Financial Reporting Workshop (Napoli)
2011 Financial Reporting Workshop (Firenze)

AWARDS FOR RESEARCH ACTIVITY
• 2003: KPMG & UIUC Competitive Manuscript Competition on Reporting Risk, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, July - Award Winner for the paper Beretta S., S. Bozzolan –, "How Companies Communicate Risks: Evidence from the Italian Stock Exchange”
• 2009: SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy Award for the Best paper published in Economia & Management for the year 2007, “Corporate Governance and the assessment of the internal control system: what do listed companies disclose?

RESEARCH ACTIVITY (LAST 10 YEARS)
• 2013 – 2015
Principal Investigator What users want. An experimental study of the relevance of corporate disclosure
funded by the University of Padova (45,000 Euro);
• 2011 – 2013,
Local Unit Principal Investigator Earnings quality, internal control systems and performance
funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (42,000 Euro);
• 2007 – 2010
Member of the Scientific Committee, European Risk Research Network (ERRN) –
Nottingham University Business School, the University of Münster, and Bocconi University with CIMA as associate partner – funded by the EC under the Marie Curie Program;
• 2008 – 2010
Participant Risk Management and Internal control systems: self assessment and disclosure to financial markets
funded by the University of Padova (29,000 Euro);
• 2007 – 2009
National Principal investigator Disclosure quality, financial analysts forecasts and investment strategies
funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (105,000 Euro);
• 2007
Participant Disclosure and Properties of Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts,
funded by Bocconi University, Milan
• 2005 – 2007
Principal Investigator Intellectual capital management in knowledge intensive firms
Joint research the Institute for Intellectual Capital Research, McMaster University, Hamilton (Canada); the Intellectual Capital Research Institute of Ireland and with the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Limerick (Ireland);
• 2003 – 2005
National Principal Investigator Risk management: a process based approach
funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (24,000 Euro).