2026 Invited Speakers

Eva Labro’s research and teaching interests in management accounting interface with other disciplines such as economics, operations management, financial accounting, tax and purchasing. 

She is specifically interested in costing system design, and the provision of management accounting information for both decision- making and performance measurement. 

Dr. Labro is an award-winning researcher and teacher. 

For her research, she has won the 2025 Best Paper Award at the Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting, the 2024 inaugural Bredrup Faculty Excellence Award, the 2022 Weatherspoon Award for Distinguished Research, the 2021 and 2011 Notable Contributions to the Management Accounting Literature Awards, the 2018 Bullard Award for Research Impact, the 2014, 2013 and 2011 Greatest Impact on Management Accounting Practice Awards from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, and the 2007 Best Paper Award of the American Accounting Association Conference. 

For her teaching, she has won the 2024 Teaching Excellence Award for the Executive MBA program from the inaugural Charlotte-based cohort, the 2019 Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in MBA teaching, the 2017 Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in PhD teaching, the 2016 MBA Core Faculty Champion in Sustainability Award, and the 2006 London School of Economics Teaching Prize. 

She has published extensively in top journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Review of Accounting Studies. 

She an Editor at The Accounting Review, an Associate Editor at Journal of Accounting Research, and the Departmental Editor for the POM-Accounting Interface department at Production and Operations Management (POM), a journal from which she received the Best Senior Editor Award in both 2018 and 2025. She is a past Senior Editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research. She serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review and Management Accounting Research. 

Dr. Labro’s work has received research funding from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the U.K. and the Institute of Management Accountants in the U.S. 

A dual American-Belgian national, she is fluent in Dutch/Flemish and conversational in French and German, with notions of Italian and Danish. 

She received her PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. She also studied in Denmark and the U.K. She received a doctoral fellowship from the Intercollegiate Centre for Management Studies in Brussels. She obtained her master’s in commercial and business economics.

Christian Leuz is the Charles F. Pohl Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting and Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research and Leibniz Institute SAFE, EPIC Scholar, a Fellow at the European Corporate Governance Institute, Goethe Universität Frankfurt’s Center for Financial Studies, and of the CESifo Research Network. He is a co-organizer and a member of the Clark Center on Global Markets European Economic Experts Panel. He studies global capital markets, in particular, the role of disclosure, transparency, and sustainability reporting; the economic effects of financial and bank regulation; international accounting; governance and corporate finance. His work has been published in many top academic journals including Science, Journal of Finance, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting & Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. He has received several awards and honors, including the Chicago Booth Class of 2023 Phoenix Award, the 2022 ACA Prize in Financial Governance, the 2016 and the 2014 Distinguished Contribution to the Accounting Literature Awards, and a Humboldt Research Award in 2012. He was also a winner in Social Sciences and Humanities in the Falling Walls Foundation Global Call 2024. He is recognized as a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Thomson Reuters and was included in their list of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” five years in a row (from 2014 to 2018). Professor Leuz was a senior editor for the Journal of Accounting Research (2011 to 2025) and has served on many editorial boards, including the Journal of Accounting & Economics, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, and the Review of Accounting Studies.

Born in Germany, Professor Leuz earned his doctoral degree and Habilitation at the Goethe University Frankfurt. In 2024, he received an honorary doctorate (Dr. h.c.) from Maastricht University. Prior to his position at Chicago Booth, he was the Harold Stott Term Assistant Professor in Accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Regina Wittenberg-Moerman specializes in debt contracting and trading, banking, reporting quality, disclosure and developing economies. She has held positions at the Wharton School, the Chicago Booth and the University of Southern California. Wittenberg-Moerman is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Best Paper Prize by the Journal of Accounting and Economics and Dean’s Award for Research Excellence from USC Marshall. Wittenberg-Moerman is the senior editor of the Journal of Accounting Research. She also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Journal of Accounting Research and is a referee for numerous journals, including The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics.