Eric Cauvin holds a PhD from IAE Aix en Provence. After working as an auditor for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, he worked for 15 years as a Professor at EDHEC Business School where he was the Head of the Accounting Department. His primary teaching and research areas are focused on strategic cost management and performance measurement. He was a visiting professor at the University of Colorado at Denver for two years. He then spent seven years at the University Paul Cézanne Aix Marseille 3 (IAE) where he managed the Master’s in Management Control. He is currently Professor at the University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis and Affiliate Professor at KEDGE Business School. Eric conducts active research in Management Accounting. He has published several books and papers in academic and practitioner journals (Comptabilité – Contrôle – Audit, Finance-Contrôle-Stratégie, Journal of Cost Management, Advances in Management Accounting).