Lukas Rieder founded of CZSG Controller Zentrum St. Gallen (Switzerland), a consultancy for management, controllership, management accounting-systems, and MIS. Customers of CZSG are mid-size and large corporations as well as public administrations. He is the Co-founder of the IGC International Group of Controlling and an honorary member of the ICV International controller Association. Previously he was an assistant professor at the University of St. Gallen. His main research topics are Controllership, Management Accounting, Management Information Systems, and Management Control Systems. He is the author of several books on management and controllership.
Raef Lawson, Ph.D., CFA, CMA, CSCA, CPA, CAE is Vice President-Research & Policy, and Professor-in-Residence for the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) where he leads IMA’s global thought leadership efforts and oversees IMA’s student as well as academic relations programs. Prior to joining IMA, he was a Professor and Chair of the Department of Accounting and Law at the State University of New York - Albany (USA). He has published several books and over one hundred articles in leading practice and academic journals in the areas of sustainability, business ethics, managerial costing, and cost and performance management systems.