Vanessa Magness has been an Associate Professor in the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University since 2000. Magness earned her BA in Administrative Studies from York University (1983), her MBA from the University of Toronto (1992), and her PhD in Accounting, Finance, and Environmental Economics at the University of Manitoba (2000), having received the Meloche Monnex Society of Management Accountants of Canada Doctoral Scholarhip. She became a Certified Management Accountant in 1989. Before joining the faculty at Ryerson, Magness held instructional positions at the University of Manitoba, Keyano College (AB), and York University. In 2003, she won the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada's Best Paper Award and the Canadian Academic Accounting Association's Innovation in Accounting Education Competition. Her research interests include environmental accounting, environmental reporting, and shareholder reactions to environmental management.