Joachim Gassen
ESMT Visiting Faculty
Joachim Gassen holds the chair for financial accounting and auditing and is head of the Institute of Accounting and Auditing at Humboldt University, Berlin. He obtained his Diploma in Economics from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster (1995). His Doctorate (2000) and his Habilitation (2006) were awarded by the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Before joining Humboldt University, he worked as postdoctoral researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and was a visiting scholar at New York University and University of Wisconsin – Madison. His research focuses on international accounting and the impact of accounting information on capital markets and corporate governance, won several academic awards and is being published in leading national and international journals.
Joachim enjoys teaching at undergraduate, graduate, PhD and executive levels. His consulting and scientific advisory work for several major German companies focuses on international accounting and investor relation related topics. He serves on numerous editorial boards and as a member of the management committee of the European Accounting Association.
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