Sofia Lourenço

Sofia Lourenço is an Associate Professor at ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), with a doctorate from Harvard Business School. Her teaching and research focus on how incentives and control systems affect the behavior of employees and managers in organizations. She has published in leading academic journals such as The Accounting Review and Journal of Accounting Research. Her research has been distinguished with the Outstanding Management Accounting Section Dissertation Award and the Notable Contribution to the Management Accounting Literature Award, both from the American Accounting Association. Sofia is an active academic, having coorganized the 2024 and 2023 Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting (American Accounting Association) as well as the 2023 and 2021 Conference on Performance Measurement and Management Control (European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management). Sofia is also the National Representative of Portugal in the Board of the European Accounting Association. A native of Lisbon, Portugal, in her free time Sofia enjoys playing with her son, Rodrigo (12 years-old), and her daughter, Margarida (9 years-old).