Diane-Laure Arjaliès

Diane-Laure is an Associate Professor (with tenure) belonging to the ‘Sustainability,’ ‘Managerial Accounting and Control,’ and ‘General Management’ groups at the Ivey Business School – a cross-disciplinary appointment that reflects my research and teaching. She aims to push the boundaries of knowledge and practice by investigating how fashioning new devices and collective actions can help transform financial markets towards sustainability. She has studied the emergence of responsible investing, impact assessment, integrated reporting, and alternative currencies. Her work in this area has won her several academic, teaching, and professional prizes. Prof. Arjaliès founded and led the Sustainable Finance Lab at the Centre for Building Sustainable Value. She is currently working on an extensive research program on conservation finance, aiming to channel capital towards protecting ecosystems, notably through conservation impact bonds. As an ethnographer, Diane-Laure enjoys doing field research and sharing her experience with students and practitioners. She has published work at the Oxford University Press, Chains of Finance: How Investment Management is Shaped, and in major academic journals across various disciplines. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Prof. Arjaliès initiated and led an interdisciplinary, multimedia, and multilingual project, Breaking Boundaries, to offer a lasting record of collective and individual experiences during the lockdown and its aftermath. This book contributes to establishing the accounting discipline’s role in recording critical moments in our global history.