Professor Dr. Gunnar Rimmel

Appointed as a Visiting Professor for 2025

Biography

Professor Dr. Gunnar Rimmel is the current MPOB-UKM Endowment Chair Visiting Professor and a renowned scholar in the field of accounting and sustainability reporting. He is also a Visiting Professor for the British International Studies Association (BISA). Prior to this, he served as a Full Professor and Chair in Accounting and Corporate Reporting at Henley Business School, University of Reading, where he also founded and directed The Henley Centre for Accounting Research & Practice (HARP) and led the BISA Research Division.

Professor Rimmel previously held full professorships in Accounting at Jönköping International Business School and the Gothenburg Research Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He earned his PhD in 2003 from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, focusing on “Human Resource Disclosures”.

With over a decade of research leadership, Professor Rimmel has successfully spearheaded major research programmes including “Accounting for Sustainability – Communication through Integrated Reporting”, “Accounting Communications – Trust in Numbers, Text and Images”, and “Accounting Communication II – Practice and Change.” His work has secured more than 5.7 million SEK in competitive external funding from notable institutions such as the Handelsbanken Research Foundations and the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Foundation.

Actively engaged in the international academic community, Professor Rimmel has played key roles in the European Accounting Association (EAA), including serving as Secretary General of the EAA’s 28th Annual Congress in 2005, a member of the EAA Management Board, and Chair and Co-Chair of the Conference Committee. He is currently a member of the EAA Stakeholder Reporting Committee.

His research and teaching specialisations span Accounting for Sustainability, Biodiversity Accounting, Non-financial Disclosures, Stakeholder Reporting, ESG engagement, and Sustainable & Responsible Investment (SRI) and Green Finance.

Professor Dr. Hung-Hao Chang

Professor and Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics, National University of Taiwan

Appointed as a Visiting Professor for 2021, 2023

Biography

Hung-Hao Chang received his Ph.D in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University in 2006. In 2006, he joined the Department of Agricultural Economics at National Taiwan University (NTU) as an assistant professor, and had been promoted as a full professor in 2014. His research interest focuses on the evaluation of agricultural and public policy, farm household economics, food consumption and economic analysis of competition law on digital economy. He has been a co-editor of Food Policy, an associate editor of Agricultural Economics, Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy, and the managing editor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. Since 2006, he has published more than 100 articles in several top field journals, including American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Food Policy, Journal of Health Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Dairy Science etc. Between 2015 and 2018, he was on leave from NTU and worked as a full-time commissioner of the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission (TFTC). In TFTC, he was in charge of international cooperation and promoting economic analysis in competition law issues. He was a country representative of Taiwan in the OECD, ICN, EATOP, and OECD-ICN chief economist meetings.

Professor Dr. Pietro Paganini

Appointed as a Visiting Professor for 2021

Biography

Pietro Paganini is an economic and (geo)political analyst and disseminator. Through his research work he contributes to structured analyses of governments and business, analyses that are focused on understanding, managing and solving complex situations through content that is timely and pragmatic with compelling messages. Pietro serves as Adjunct Professor in Business Administration at Fox School of Business – Temple University of Philadelphia (2015), and as Adjunct Professor in Business Administration at John Cabot University, Rome (2008). He served as Visiting Professor for the MPOB-UKM Endowment Chair, The National University of Malaysia (UKM) (2021). He served as General Director of Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. He is the founder of the Italian Institute for Privacy – Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati – where he seats in the Board. Pietro has previously held a Researcher and Visiting Lectureship at Karlstad University (Sweden) and served as Researcher at LUMSA University in Rome. He holds a Doctorate in Communication and Complex Organizations, a Masters in Multimedia and digital arts, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Communication. He is a regular contributor to the Italian national newspapers and international publications and media, in which he has continuously advocated for an open society and innovation policies. He is regularly hosted in TV and radio programs on main Italian and international broadcasters.

Professor Dr. Ir. Peter Oosterveer

Wageningen University, Netherlands

Appointed as a Visiting Professor for 2016

Biography

Peter Oosterveer received his PhD in 2005 at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. His research and teaching is in the field of globalization and sustainability of food production and consumption. His interests are in particular on global public and private governance of food towards sustainability, including labeling and certification of food.

Increasing globalization of food raises difficult challenges in promoting sustainability as distances between producers and consumers are increasing and supply chains are becoming more complex. Conventional national government-based regulation is no longer sufficient and therefore the roles of private and civil society based actors are becoming more important. My research is focusing on these shifts and their consequences for the organisation of the supply chain and the roles of different social actors therein.