VAN WEEREN
Michelle is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Sustainability at NEOMA Business
School. She obtained her PhD from Paris-Dauphine University, held a visiting fellow
position at Warwick Business School, and was a Fellow at the London School of
Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on sustainable finance,
employing a sociological approach to examine the integration of environmental, social,
and governance (ESG) metrics into traditional finance at both the individual and field
levels. Her work has been published in Accounting, Organizations and Society. She is an
active member of multidisciplinary, international research communities such as RIODD
(Réseau International des Organisations sur le Développement Durable) and CSEAR
(Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research). She also participates in the
diffusion of sustainable finance practices in the field through different mandates as a
member of advisory boards of companies and public bodies.
Areas of research
- Epistemic practices
- sociology of quantification
- professional identity
- neo-institutional theory.