Assunta Di Vaio is a Full Professor of Business Administration and Accounting Studies at the University of Naples "Parthenope", Naples, Italy. She holds a PhD in Business Administration from Cà Foscari University of Venice (Italy). She serves as Departmental Delegate for Research, Chair of the Departmental Quality Assurance Group, and Director of the Blue Shipping & Cruise Laboratory. She is a member of her university's Gender Equality Plan Committee and the Women Research Network in Europe, where she contributes to research on digitalization, climate change and gender issues. Her research focuses on sustainability accounting and reporting, corporate governance, accountability, gender equality, digital transformation, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially the translation of sustainability commitments into measurable organizational outcomes. She is Editor-in-Chief of Accounting and Auditing and has been included in the Stanford/ Elsevier World's Top 2% Scientists ranking.