Chrystelle Richard

Education

Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Accounting and Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science Ph.D. in Management, University of Montpellier II Master in Accounting and Management Control, University of Paris IX Dauphine Agrégation in Economics and Management, with Accounting and Finance option Ecole Normale Supérieure, Economics and Management departement, Cachan.

Biography

Chrystelle Richard is Associate Professor in Accounting. Former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she holds a PhD in Management Studies and has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics as well as Sciences Po. She teaches Financial Accounting and Auditing in the Bachelor, Master, Executive and Ph.D programs. Her primary research interests focus on firms'' oversight (financial audit, audit committees, Say-On-Pay principle) and also new forms of economic governance (public-private partnerships, discreet regulation of the financial industry). She has published articles on the topic of the quality of audit and financial reporting in various journals:
European Accounting Review,
Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory,
Accounting and Business Research,
Accounting in Europe
or
Comptabilité Contrôle Audit. She edited two collective research books: Finance: The Discreet Regulator – How Financial Activities Shape and Transform the World with Isabelle Huault (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), Comptabilité, Société, Politique with Marc Nikitn (Economica, 2012). The latter received the 2015 FNEGE Prize for the Best Collective Research Book. Chrystelle Richard is member of the board of the European Accounting Association (EAA) and member of the scientific committee of the European Auditing Research Network (EARNet). Between 2014 and 2016, she served the Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) of the European Securities Market Authority (ESMA).

Research Areas

Areas

Firm oversight : financial audit, audit committees, proxy advisors. New forms of economic governance : public-private partnerships (PPP), discreet regulation of the financial industry.

On-going Projects

Working papers Value co-creation in auditing: Evidence from auditors, auditees and financial analysts, with D. Lambert, R. Meuwissen and A. Vanstraelen. Audit profession''s knowledge base and the sustainability of audit: An exloratory study of auditors in Europe, with C. Humphrey, A. Samsonova-Taddei and S. Turley. Networks and risk transfers by financial institutions: The case of PPP contracting in France, with E. Lazega, A. Jeny and P. Wang.
Contested director elections as celebrity contests: developing competing discursive strategies to influence voting decisions of investors, with D. Lambert and B. Leca.

Teaching at ESSEC

CPTC 31124 - Informations comptables et financières EEE - Analyse Financière et Création de Valeur PhD Program - Auditing and Regulation

Other Teaching Activities

Teaching responsibilities Course coordinator for the CPTC31124 "Informations comptables et financières" (2009-present). Accounting & Auditing PhD Coordinator (2009-2016)