Rate My Professor Gaia Melloni

Gaia Melloni serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and Control at HEC Lausanne, part of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne, a position she has held since 2019. An interdisciplinary researcher, she focuses on accounting and corporate sustainability, particularly the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in corporate reporting. She received her PhD in Economics and Management from the Graduate School of Economics and Management of the University of Padua, Venice, and Verona in 2013. Following her PhD, she held academic positions at Bocconi University and Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia. Melloni has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Her research interests include sustainability accounting, integrated and sustainability reporting, corporate sustainability, ESG factors, greenwashing, corporate governance, textual analysis, and impression management. Her publications have appeared in leading international journals, including the Strategic Management Journal, European Accounting Review, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Melloni has received notable awards and funding, such as a Horizon 2020 grant and the Sandoz Family Philanthropic Foundation (FPFS)-Monique de Meuron research fellowship in 2020. This competitive fellowship for up-and-coming academics in human sciences supports her research on sustainability accounting, integrated reporting, and corporate resilience to crises like COVID-19, with funding available from September 2021 for two years, renewable for two more. She has consulted for the European Parliament and the United Nations on sustainability reporting and serves on boards of directors and ESG committees. At HEC Lausanne, she has supervised doctoral students, including Arianna Pisciella, who graduated in 2024.