Sandra Vera-Munoz

Sandra C. Vera-Muñoz is an Associate Professor, EY Faculty Fellow, Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership Faculty Fellow, Kaneb Center Faculty Fellow, and former Deloitte Foundation Department Chair of Accountancy. She currently teaches Sustainability Accounting & Reporting and Impact Investing. Her research focuses on climate risk disclosures and assurance, and judgment and decision making. She received a B.B.A. (Accounting) from the University of Puerto Rico, an MBA from Penn State University, and a Ph.D. (Accounting) from the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation on accounting knowledge and opportunity costs was honored with the AAA/ABO Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Professor Vera-Muñoz has published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Issues in Accounting Education, and the Journal of Business Ethics, among others. She serves on the Editorial Board of Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly and served on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, The Accounting Review, and Contemporary Accounting Research, among others. She has been invited to present at numerous research presentations at national and international research conferences. Her 2014 article in The Accounting Review on carbon emissions and carbon disclosures has been cited over 1,100 times. Professor Vera-Muñoz chaired the AAA/AACSB/RRBM Award for Research Impacting Societal Challenges Committee and serves on the AAA/Research & Publications Committee. She has also served on the AAA/Grant Thornton Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee, the New Faculty Consortium Planning Committee, and as a faculty liaison with KPMG.

At Notre Dame, Professor Vera-Muñoz serves on the Academic Council and has served on the Care for our Common Home Theme Advisory Committee, the Department Chairs Advisory Group to the Provost, and the Ryan Ethics Chair Search Committee. She is a faculty mentor for underrepresented minority students through the Building Bridges Program.

Professor Vera-Muñoz is the recipient of the 2022 Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2022 Mendoza Mission Research Award. For her spirit of service and academic accomplishments, Professor Vera-Muñoz was named to the 2021 Notre Dame All-Faculty Team.