Ericka Costa (PhD in Business Economics, University of Udine, Italy) is Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Trento. She is member of the Council at the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) networks and director of CSEAR Italy.

Her research interests focus on investigating sustainability accounting and corporate social responsibility for both for-profit and non-profit organizations and she participated in several national and international research projects on these topics, including one EU Horizon 2020. Her research has appeared in international publications, including Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Critical Perspective on Accounting, Accounting and Business Research, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Voluntas, Service Business and Sustainability Accounting and Management Journal.

In the 2^nd level Specializing Master's programme in Climate Change: adaptation and mitigation solutions she will lecture Corporate Social Accountability in the course Corporate Approaches to Climate Change.