Accounting and Accountability in Emerging Economies (AAEE) Conference 2018

Tatiana Krylova, Head of Enterprise Branch, Division on Investment and Enterprise Development, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Her duties among others include supervision and coordination of activities of the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group on International Accounting and Reporting Standards (ISAR) to assist developing countries and economies in transition to meet international requirements in the area of accounting and reporting. In this regard she leads UNCTAD’s work on formulating and implementation of the Accounting Development Tool (ADT), as well as other activities related to corporate financial and non-financial reporting with a view to achieve better quality and international comparability of such reports based on international standards, benchmarks and good practices.

Before joining the United Nations in 2000, she was a partner at KPMG in Moscow where she was in charge of the Methodology department that advised Russian government and companies on transition to IAS/IFRS. She was also a consultant to the World Bank, OECD, EBRD, and other international organizations on accounting and finance issues. In different years she was a member of the Standards Advisory Council of the IASB, of the Education Committee and the Developing Nations Committee of the International Federation of Accountants. She was previously a Professor at Moscow State University teaching accounting and finance and was elected as American Accounting Association Distinguished International Lecturer for 1997. 

She holds a PhD degree in accounting from Moscow State University and was a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, California, in 1992-1993.

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.