Esther Ortiz-Martinez is a Full Professor in the Accounting and Finance Department of the University of Murcia, Spain. She finished her European PhD in 2001, and since then she has been doing research in the fields of nonfinancial information, international accounting and capital markets, collaborating in different research projects and staying in different European Universities. She has presented papers at international congresses and published in various local and international journals. She has also published chapters in internationally edited books.