Sandra Vera-Munoz

Sandra C. Vera-Muñoz is the Deloitte Foundation Accountancy Department Chair. She currently teaches Sustainability Accounting and Reporting and Impact Invesing and Strategic Cost Management. 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.

She has published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Accounting, Organizations and Society, and the Journal of Business Ethics, among others. She 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 also served on the AAA/Grant Thornton Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee, the AAA/Publications Committee, the New Faculty Consortium Planning Committee, and as a faculty liaison with KPMG. At Notre Dame, Sandra serves on the Department Chairs Advisory Group and the Building Bridges Mentoring Program, and has served in the Ryan Ethics Chair Search Committee and the Sustainability Strategy Standing Committee.