Chrystelle Richard

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 Interest

 Financial Audit : the role of audit in corporate governance, the quality and the added value of auditing, new forms of audit and assurance. New forms of economic governance : the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), the discreet regulation of the financial industry.