Trevor Hopper is Emeritus Professor of Management Accounting at Sussex University, UK; adjunct professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; and visiting professor at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. Previously he was a cost accountant in industry, a lecturer at Wolverhampton and Sheffield Universities, and professor at Manchester Business School.
His visiting positions include the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A; Queen's University, Canada; Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia; and the Universities of Kyushu and Fukuoka, Japan. Professor Hopper was a co-editor of British Accounting Review and is the Consulting Editor for the Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies. His editorial board memberships include Accounting, Accountability and Performance; the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Accounting and the Public Interest; Alternative Perspectives on Finance and Accounting; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Journal of Accounting & Organisational Change; and Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management. His major interests lie in the social, organisational and political aspects of management accounting, especially with respect to ERPs, developing countries, and contemporary accounting changes.
He has co-edited eight books, including A Handbook of Accounting in Developing Countries and Issues in Management Accounting and has published extensively in professional journals, books, and international research journals including Accounting and Business Research; Accounting, Organizations and Society; the Auditing, Accounting and Accountability Journal; British Accounting Review; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; European Accounting Review; Journal of Management Studies; and Management Accounting Research. His accounting and development related papers include intensive case studies in Bangladesh, Benin, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Indonesia; and several reviews of work on accounting and development. He was granted a Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Accounting and Finance Association, an honorary doctorate from Stockholm School of Economics, and has been inaugurated into the Interdisciplinary Accounting Hall of Fame.