Luminita Enache

Luminita Enache is an Associate Professor of Accounting (with tenure) and a Future Fund Fellow. She joined the Haskyane School of Business in July 2018 as an Assistant Professor of Accounting. Her research interests lies at the intersection of accounting and finance, with a focus on empirical research that is closely guided by economic theory. Luminita is broadly focused on firms' information environment in capital markets, on the role intangibles plays in shaping the new economy firms, corporate governance and more recently on the health economics.

Prior to joining Haskyane School of Business, Professor Enache worked at Tuck School of Business and for the Master of Health Care Delivery Science Program at Dartmouth College. Luminita held visiting positions at the MIT, at the University of Michigan and at Columbia Business School in New York. Moreover, she has been a Lecturer of Accounting in New Zealand, at Victoria University of Wellington.

Professor Enache received her PhD in Economics and Management (with a concentration in Accounting) from the University of Padua (Italy) after spending part of her research period as a Visiting Ph.D. Scholar at the University of Michigan (U.S). Her dissertation won the European Institute for Advanced Studies (EIASM) Best Junior Contribution to the Development of Intangibles and Intellectual Capital Theory and Practice. Dr Enache also earned a B.A. in Finance and Banking and a B.S. in Nursing. Prior to joining academia, Luminita has worked as a Credit Analyst and as a Junior Relationship Manager for Raiffeisen Bank Romania. Dr. Enache has earned in June 2021 the Public Public Policy and Leadership Credential at Harvard Kennedy School.

Professor Enache research has been published in Management Science, Harvard Business Review (13 publications), California Management Review, Management and Business Review, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (3 publications), Australian Accounting Review etc and has coauthored several papers at different stages of review at top-tier finance and accounting journals.

Professor Enache’s research has been presented at various seminars such as MIT (USA), Harvard Business School (USA), Dartmouth College (USA), London School of Economics (UK), University of Michigan (USA), UTS Accounting Conference (Australia), Temple University (USA), Bocconi University (Italy), ESSEC Business School (France), Paris-Dauphine University (France), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), Massey University (New Zealand), University of Padua (Italy), University of Calgary (Canada), University Jaume I (Spain), University of Valencia (Spain), Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), University of Leeds (UK), Saint Mary's University (Canada), University of Innsbruck (Austria).

Professor Enache the recipient of the 2021- 2026 Future Fund Fellow, 2021 EIASM Intangibles Best Paper Award, 2020 Dean's Award for Innovative Research, 2020 AAA FARS Outstanding Discussion Award, 2019 Best Paper Award of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) Interdisciplinary Workshop on “Intangibles & Intellectual Capital”, of the 2018-2019 CPA EF Teaching Excellence Award, the 2019-2021 Social Sciences and Humanites Research Council (SSHRC) co-investigator grant, 2019-2021 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant, Principal Investigator, the 2013 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Research Grant (AFAANZ) and Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) Research Establishment Grant.

Professor Enache is an active member of the American Accounting Association, European Accounting Association and Australian and New Zealand Accounting and Finance Association, speaking regularly at the annual meetings.

She has been a panelist at the 2019 JIAR conference (Journal of International Accounting Research), a keynote speaker at the 2013 Summer Ethics Conference (Venice, Italy), an invited participant at Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Governance (New Zealand), at Kellogg Accounting Conference (Northwestern University), PCAOB/JAR Accounting Conference (USA), Dartmouth Accounting Conference (USA), and Indian School of Business (India), University of Alberta Accounting Research Conference (Canada), Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting (CFEA), 2018 and 2020 Contemporary Accounting Research Journal Conference, 2019 Tel-Aviv Accounting Conference.

Professor Enache teaching areas include financial accounting and financial statement analysis. She is a proactive teacher who fosters critical thinking and facilitates the acquisition of life-long learning skills to help students function effectively in an information economy. Her enthusiasm to teach translates to their enthusiasm to learn. During her time at Dartmouth College, she has co-taught finance essentials aimed at senior executives in health care services. At Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand she taught advanced financial accounting and financial statement analysis, both elective courses.

In addition to her academia work, she is also a Registered Professional Nurse in Italy and Romania, and a Certified Public Accountant in Australia. Luminita speaks Italian, French, German, English and Romanian.