Charles H. Cho

Charles H. Cho, PhD, CPA is Professor of Sustainability Accounting and the Erivan K. Haub Chair in Business & Sustainability at the Schulich School of Business, York University. He holds a PhD in Business Administration (Accounting Track) from the University of Central Florida, and his research interests include Social and Environmental Accounting and Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); and Accounting for the Public Interest. He has over 20 years of experience in teaching (at all levels and in various universities), researching and engaging with the sustainability, social and environmental accounting and reporting (SSEAR) field in multiple countries. His research is published in leading academic journals such as Accounting, Auditing and Accountability JournalAccounting, Organizations and SocietyBusiness & Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, European Accounting Review, and the Journal of Business Ethics, among others. He currently serves as Editor of Accounting Forum, Accounting and Business Ethics Section Co-Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics, and Associate Editor of Business & Society. He also actively contributes to organizations like CPA Ontario (Sustainability Strategic Advisory Committee), the Club Canadien de Toronto (Board of Directors), the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (Board of Directors and Chair of the Governance, Peoples and Equity, Diversity, Indigeneity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee), the European Accounting Association (Stakeholder Reporting and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committees) and is a member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)’s Global Sustainability Standards Board. As a globally recognized scholar, he is frequently invited as plenary keynote speaker at international conferences and professional events, and solicited by the media; was selected as one of the “Top 50 Academic and Research Support Project” from the Republic of Korea’s Prime Minister and Minister of Education; received the Honorable Knight Award from the University of Central Florida’s Hall of Fame; and ranks among the top 2% of cited accounting researchers worldwide. He has also worked for KPMG LLP and other public accounting firms for several years in auditing and taxation.