Gunnar Rimmel previously worked in Sweden as full professor in Accounting at Jönköping International Business School and Gothenburg Research Institute at the University of Gothenburg. He received his PhD in 2003 for the thesis “Human Resource Disclosures” from the School of Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg University.

During the past 15+ years, he has been leading research programmes such as "Accounting for Sustainability - communication through integrated reporting", “Accounting Communications - trust in numbers, text and images”, and “Accounting Communication II – practice and change”. These projects have attracted 5.7M SEK in competitive external funding by the Handelsbanken research foundations as well as from the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Foundation. His current research project "The Impact of Mandatory Sustainability Reporting on Swedish Reporting" is affilated with the Gothenburg Research Institute and has received funding by the Handelsbanken Research Foundation.

He is active in a number of associations, notably in the European Accounting Association (EAA). He was Secretary General the EAA's 28th Annual Congress in Gothenburg in 2005, and has been on the EAA management board as well as Co-Chair and Chair of the Conference Committee. He is currently a member of the EAA Stakeholder Reporting Committee.

He published his articles in international academic journals such as Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and Accounting Forum. He has edited and contributed more than twenty book chapters and international books. Since many years, he is an active researcher with a wide network. Until 2023 he was executive board member of the Center for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR), advisory board member of the British Accounting and Finance Association - Financial Accounting and Reporting Special Interest Group (FARSIG). He is also an editorial board member of the Accounting Forum, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal and the Journal of Business Models. He is affiliated with EFRAG where he is part of the Project Task Force for the project on reporting of non-financial risks and opportunities and linkage to the business model (PTF-RNFRO and worked until July 2024 on the team draft EFRAG’s implementation guideline for the new European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) by the European Commission.

Gunnar Rimmel's research and teaching interests include Accounting for Sustainability, Biodiversity Accounting, Non-financial Disclosures, Stakeholder Reporting and ESG engagement, SRI & Green Finance.

Specialisms

• Accounting for Sustainability
• Biodiversity accounting
• Non-financial disclosures
• Stakeholder reporting
• ESG engagement, SRI & Green Finance