She holds a PhD from HEC Paris (France) and worked for KPMG LLP and other professional service firms for several years before starting her career in academia. Her research concerns how tax advisors, financial auditors and internal auditors working in professional service firms and public sector organizations understand, assess and control the quality of their own work. She also is interested in issues of professional ethics. She has published papers in prestigious academic journals such as Organization Studies, Human Relations, Accounting Organizations and Society, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory and European Accounting Review. Dr. Brivot currently serves on the editorial boards of Critical Perspectives on Accounting, European Accounting Review, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and Accounting Forum (associate editor).