
Mario Abela
Professor of Management Accounting at IESEG School of Management
Mario is a Professor of Management Accounting at IESEG School of Management, Lille and Paris, France. He is also a Strategic Advisor to the Value Balancing Alliance and a member of the IMA’s Sustainable Business Management Global Task Force. He sits on a number of international committees and is a recognised export in accounting and reporting. Mario holds a PhD in Accounting from the University of London, a Masters of Science from Linkoping University, Sweden and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has held senior executive positions in both the public and private sector and for the last decade has been working at the interface between practice and academia at IFAC, EFRAG and the WBCSD. Mario is passionate about promoting the role accounting can play in driving towards more sustainable business and the role of stakeholder relationships in creating value for business and society.