A Visionary Pathfinder Leading the Evolution in Sustainability Accounting and Reporting
Prof. Dr. Othmar M. Lehner
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Director of the Hanken Center for Accounting, Finance and Governance
Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki
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"Robust, data science driven, interdisciplinary research for a positive societal impact"
APPOINTMENTS
2019 -
HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, HELSINKI, FINLAND
Director of the Centre of Accounting, Finance and Governance
Associate Professor in Accounting
2023 - 2025
KPMG Austria
Director Sustainability Reporting Services
2018 -
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, LONDON, UK
Fractional Full Professor in Finance, Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research
2014 - 2019
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK
Professorial Fellow, Said Business School and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
2012 - 2021
ACRN OXFORD RESEARCH CENTRE, OXFORD, UK
Honorary Director, Professorial Fellow
2012 - 2023
UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA
Professor for Finance, Risk and Accounting
2009 - 2012
UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ, FINLAND
Assistant Professor, School of Business and Economics
previously
working as risk manager at the Citigroup bank UK London and as Chartered Financial Accountant in Austria for more than 10 years
RECENT ACADEMIC BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Routledge
2022
Keynotes and Speeches
Vortragsreihe bei der Sparkasse OÖ zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit for People, Planet and Profit
May 8/9/11, 2023
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Keynote Speaker on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability Accounting at the 46th Congress of Controllers, Munich
May 9/10, 2022
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Keynote Speaker and Co-Organizer of the Panel on Impact Investing in Times of Crises, at the 81st Academy of Management Conference
2021
Keynote Speaker at the EU Summit on the ESG Taxonomy for Sustainability Accounting before the EU Commission, Brussels, Belgium
2020
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Speaking on Conflicts, Tensions and Paradoxes in Social Impact Accounting at the 43rd annual EAA Congress, Bucharest
2020
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Keynote on Social Justice in Impact Investing in the Ethics Symposium of the 24th annual American Accounting Association Meeting, Atlanta
2020
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Speaker on the topic of Value Propositions and Disruptive Potential in FinTechs, 79th Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA
2019
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Keynote Speaker on Measuring Sustainability and Impact at the Impact Investing World Forum, London, UK
2019
Economics, Helsinki, Finland
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Keynotes and Speeches
Seminar bei steuerseminar.at zum "Thema Die neuen Pflichtangaben zur Nachhaltigkeit im Lagebericht für mittelgroße und große Kapitalgesellschaften gemäß dem Europäischen Sustainability Reporting Standard (CSRD/ ESRS) - Was Steuerberater jetzt für ihre Klienten wissen müssen"
October 18, 2023
Vortrag bei der HR Connects der Business Upper Austria zum Thema "Nachhaltigkeit für People, Planet und Profit: Der menschliche Faktor in der Wesentlichkeitsanalyse"
September 14, 2023
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Vortragsreihe bei der Sparkasse OÖ zum Thema "Nachhaltigkeit for People, Planet and Profit"
May 8/9/11, 2023
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Keynote Speaker on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability Accounting at the 46th Congress of Controllers, Munich
May 9/10, 2022
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Keynote Speaker and Co-Organizer of the Panel on Impact Investing in Times of Crises, at the 81st Academy of Management Conference
2021
Keynote Speaker at the EU Summit on the ESG Taxonomy for Sustainability Accounting before the EU Commission, Brussels, Belgium
2020
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Speaking on Conflicts, Tensions and Paradoxes in Social Impact Accounting at the 43rd annual EAA Congress, Bucharest
2020
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Keynote on Social Justice in Impact Investing in the Ethics Symposium of the 24th annual American Accounting Association Meeting, Atlanta
2020
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Speaker on the topic of Value Propositions and Disruptive Potential in FinTechs, 79th Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA
2019
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Keynote Speaker on Measuring Sustainability and Impact at the Impact Investing World Forum, London, UK
2019
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Honorary Activities and Recent Awards in Service to the Field
Emerald Literati Award, Winner 2020 – Applied Accounting 2019 for the best paper:
Lehner, O.M., Harrer T., and Quast, M. (2019), Building Institutional Legitimacy in Impact Investing: Strategies and Gaps in Financial Communication and Discourse, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, (ISSN 0967-5426), 20(3), 416-438 SCOPUS
Nominated for the Carolyne B Dexter Award 2018 for the best international research paper
at the Academy of Management, Chicago, 2018 for:
Lehner, O.M., Harrer, T., Quast, M., (2018). Legitimacy and Discourse in Impact Investing: Searching
for the Holy Grail. Academy of Management Proceedings, (ISSN: 2151-6561), Vol. 13
https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.114
Best Paper Award 2018, PnP Division of the Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, 2018
Best Paper Award 2018, Hermann Zemlicka Award of Springer Accounting Information Sciences and Neurosciences
Best Paper Award for global Social Entrepreneurship Research 2015. New York University, NYU Stern.
Elsevier Certificate for Outstanding Reviewer 2017, 2018 and 2019
Editor in Chief
Emerald, Journal of Applied Accounting Research,
ABDC: B, ABS, Scopus, EBSCO and CABELL listed (ISSN 0967-5426)
Guest Editor
2019, Special Issue in the Journal of Applied Accounting Research on “Measuring and
Reporting in Impact Investing and Sustainable Accounting”
Conference Chair
SSFII Social and Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing Conference,
University of Oxford, Said Business School, Oxford, UK (2015)
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Conference Chair
11th - 17th FRAP conference on Finance, Risk and Accounting Perspectives,
Hughes Hall College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge University, UK, Oriel College of the University of Oxford, UK, and Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
Organisational and Board Memberships
EAA, European Accounting Association
AOM, Academy of Management, USA
BAM, British Academy of Management, UK
ÖGWT, Austrian Chartered Professional Accountant Association
AACSB: AQ and PQ Qualification
GARP: Global Association of Risk Professionals
OECD Expert on Impact Investing Measurement
Member of the ACRN - Academic Research Network Oxford
BOOKINGS
Please contact carina(at)sustainavision.eu to book Prof. Lehner for Keynotes at Industry and Finance Events on the Topics of Sustainability Accounting, Impact Investing and the Digital Transformation of Accounting and Finance
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Research Agenda on Social Finance
Moderation of ESG Data Webinar
Opening of the Quantum Lab @Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki