Jeffrey Unerman is Professor of Accounting and Corporate Accountability and Head of the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. Before joining Royal Holloway's School of Management in September 2011, he was a professor at Manchester Business School.

His research, public policy work and consulting focuses on the role of accounting and accountability practices in helping organizations become more sustainable, recognizing the interdependencies between economic, social and environmental sustainability. A particular emphasis of this research is the potential and actual use of accounting in making the social and ecological impacts of organizational activities more transparent and in encouraging the embedding of sustainability within organizational decision-making.

Jeffrey is co-editor of Accounting for Sustainability: Practical Insights (2010), a book of case studies (undertaken in conjunction with the Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project) that examines the pioneering work of a number of blue chip organizations in developing sustainability accounting and accountability practices. He is also co-editor of Sustainability Accounting and Accountability (2007) and co-author of Financial Accounting Theory – European Edition (2011).

He is currently Joint Editor of Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, an Associate Editor of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vice-Chair of the British Accounting and Finance Association (the UK learned society for accounting and finance) and leader of the Integrated Reporting Academic Network that works in conjunction with the International Integrated Reporting Committee. He holds a PhD in social and environmental accounting from the University of Sheffield, is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and is an honorary member of CPA Australia.