Michele Bigoni is a Reader in Accounting at Kent Business School, University of Kent. Previously, he was a Lecturer in Accounting at Queen’s Management School, Queen’s University Belfast. His main areas of research are critical accounting and the history of accounting. He is also interested in accounting in the public sector, and conducts research on the measurement and management of public value in this area. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and research, including the Margit F. and Hanns Martin Schoenfeld Award from the Academy of Accounting Historians, the Head of School Prize for Research at Queen’s Management School, the Robert W. Gibson Award for the Best Publication in Accounting History and the Kent Union’s Above and Beyond Award. His work has been published in several prestigious international journals, including Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting Forum, the British Accounting Review, Accounting History, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Public Money & Management, and the Accounting Historians Journal. Some of his work is included in the permanent collection at Yad Vashem, the World Center for Holocaust Remembrance. The international prominence of his work is also confirmed by the books he has edited for the renowned international publisher, Routledge. He is an Associate Editor of Critical Perspectives on Accounting and the British Accounting Review. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal and Accounting History journals.