About
Kim Trottier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting at HEC Montréal. She holds a Ph.D. (Accounting and Economics) and M.Sc. (Accounting) from the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on corporate governance mechanisms, leadership dynamics, and financial accounting practices. She has supervised master's projects on sustainability reporting and ESG strategies, including analyzing BRP's greenhouse gas management and NanoXplore's first sustainability report. Her teaching expertise includes financial accounting instruments and risk governance.
Key research interests include corporate governance structures, executive leadership transitions, and the interplay between accounting metrics and financial markets. Recent publications explore CEO selection determinants, governance mechanisms evolution, and firm characteristic analyses through cluster modeling.
Dr. Trottier's academic contributions are reflected in peer-reviewed journals such as International Journal of Business and Management and Risk Governance and Control, alongside a textbook co-authored with Jacqueline Di Vito: Financial Accounting: Learning the Language of Business (2021).
