Ana Conceição (publication name, Conceição, A.) is an Assistant Professor of Management Accounting and Control at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon, Portugal). She holds a PhD from ISCTE-IUL. Prior to joining ISCTE-IUL she was Professor at Escola Naval where she taught Accounting, Auditing and Financial Management.

Inna Paiva (PhD) is Associate Professor (with habilitation) in the Instituto Univeritário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL).  She has experience in teaching in master’s programmes and programmes for executive education, and engages with courses related to financial accounting, business reporting and public accounting.  She also supervises master’s students’ dissertations and has made various presentations in in international scientific conferences and authored papers and book chapters. For several years, she was the director of the Master’s in Accounting and Taxation and the Bachelor’s Degree Course Accounting, Taxation and Auditing in the Universidade Lusófona. Her research interests lie in the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards, accounting quality and family firms. She has published her research in book chapters and in journals such as the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, the  Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting, the Review of Accounting and Finance. She has also published a text book: Contabilidade Pública - As Novas Demonstrações para Relato em Sistema de Normalização Contabilística para as Administrações Públicas/ Public Accounting - The New Report Statements in the Accounting Normalization System for Public Administration  and she is the author of practical case studies in the text book Fundamentos de Contabilidade Financeira: teoria e casos/ Foundations of Financial Accounting: theory and case studies.

Sérgio Lagoa is currently an Associated Professor with Habilitation at Iscte. He has taught economics courses at the undergraduate, master, and PhD levels throughout his career at this institution. From 2011 to 2016, he served as co-director of the undergraduate economics program. Since 2015, he has been the director of the Master in Monetary and Financial Economics. He was a member of the scientific commission of Dinâmia’Cet-Iul from 2020 to 2022, and has been member of the board of the Institute for Public and Social Policies (IPPS-Iscte) of Iscte since 2023. Sérgio Lagoa is an integrated researcher at Dinâmia’Cet-Iscte. His main research fields are in monetary and financial economics, with a focus on financial institutions, and also in the labour market.