Ericka Costa (PhD in Business Economics, University of Udine, Italy) is senior lecturer of accounting, University of Trento. She also spent several visiting periods at other universities: in 2011 at the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland; in 2011 and 2013 at the University of Burgos, Spain, and in 2012 at the Centre of Excellence in Accounting & Reporting for Co-operatives (CEARC), St. Mary University, Sobey Business School in Halifax, Canada. She is international associate for Italy at the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) networks and director of CSEAR Italy. Ericka also participated in several research projects on accounting and social accounting for nonprofit organizations and she has attended national and international conferences to present papers on the results of these research projects. Recently, she has been involved with the OECD and the European Commission in delivering a policy brief on social impact measurement for social enterprises.

Her research interests are focused on investigating sustainability accounting and corporate social responsibility for both for-profit and non-profit organizations. She has written a number of chapters in books and articles and papers that have been accepted for national and international journals and conferences. Her research has appeared in international publications, including Accounting and Business Research, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Voluntas and Service Business.