Sandra Vera-Munoz

Sandra C. Vera-Muñoz is an Associate Professor and former Deloitte Foundation Department Chair of Accountancy. She currently teaches Sustainability Accounting and Reporting and Impact Investing 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, Review of Accounting Studies, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 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 more than 800 times. Vera-Muñoz has 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 served on the Department Chairs Advisory Group to the Provost, the Search Committee for the Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Enrollment, and is a faculty mentor for underrepresented minority students through the Building Bridges Program. She serves on the Care for Our Common Home Theme Advisory Committee, and has served on the Ryan Ethics Chair Search Committee and the Sustainability Strategy Standing Committee. She 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.