Barbara Sveva Magnanelli is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Management at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, where she previously served as Chair of the Department of Business Administration. She earned her Ph.D. in Management (Accounting track) from LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome in 2011, after completing both a Bachelor Degree in Business and a Master of Science in Business Administration at the same institution. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Tennessee (USA) and at the HEC Paris (France). In 2015, she also held a visiting research position at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. Since 2011, Dr. Magnanelli has taught courses including Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Corporate Governance, at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Between 2007 and 2013, she also worked as a corporate consultant, gaining practical experience that continues to inform her academic teaching and research. Her research interests lie primarily in corporate governance, with a focus on boards of directors, gender diversity in boardrooms, female leadership, and financial statement fraud. Recently, her work has expanded to include ESG disclosure and corporate social responsibility. Dr. Magnanelli regularly presents her research at leading international conferences and publishes in high-quality academic journals. She is also the co-author of the book Corporate Governance and Diversity in Boardrooms: Empirical Insights into the Impact on Firm Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).