Prof. Alexander Edwards (Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Professor Alex Edwards is a Professor and the Area Coordinator in Accounting. His research is focused on taxation and capital markets and has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of the American Taxation Association, the National Tax Journal, and Tax Notes. He serves as an editor for Contemporary Accounting Research and is a member of the Editorial Board for The Accounting Review. Prior to joining Rotman, Alex taught a variety of classes at the University of Washington and Brock University. Before entering academics, Alex worked as a tax specialist and auditor with KPMG LLP.
Prof. Partha Mohanram (John H. Watson Chair in Value Investing, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Professor Partha Mohanram is the John H. Watson Chair in Value Investing. He has published extensively in the areas of financial statement analysis, valuation of growth firms, implied cost of capital and executive compensation. His recent work is in the area of social media, artificial intelligence and machine learning. He is the Editor-in-chief of Contemporary Accounting Research and serves on the editorial board of The Accounting Review and Review of Accounting Studies. His research work has won numerous awards including the Haim Falk award from the CAAA (2017), the Rotman research impact award (2018) and the Notable Contributions Award from the AAA (2022).
Prof. Linda Myers (Haslam Chair of Business & Distinguished Professor of Accounting, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee)
Linda A. Myers, Ph.D., is the Haslam Chair of Business and Distinguished Professor of Accounting in the Department of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Tennessee. She is Mary, Jack, & Daniel H. Dougherty Faculty Fellow. Myers graduated from the University of Michigan in 2001 and has published in The Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting and Economics; Journal of Accounting Research; Contemporary Accounting Research; Review of Accounting Studies; Accounting, Organizations & Society; Management Science; Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory; Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Accounting Horizons; Journal of Business Finance & Accounting; Journal of Business Ethics; and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. Myers also serves as a deputy editor-in-chief for Contemporary Accounting Research; as an editor for Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons and the Journal of International Accounting Research; as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance; and as an ad-hoc editor for The Accounting Review. She also serves on the editorial board of European Accounting Review and previously served on the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies.
Prof. Stephen Stubben (Professor, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah)
Professor Stephen Stubben is a David Eccles Faculty Fellow and Professor of Accounting at the University of Utah. He has published research on topics related to financial accounting and reporting in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and other top accounting journals. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of five accounting journals, and he has recently received awards for his work on peer reviews from The Accounting Review and Journal of Accounting Research. Professor Stubben received the Wildman Award, awarded annually for the publication with the most significant contribution to the practice of accounting. He is frequently invited to present his research at conferences and universities around the world.
Professor Laurence van Lent is a Professor of Accounting and Economics at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. Before joining the Frankfurt School, he was affiliated with Tilburg University from 1993-2017, most recently as the Chair of Empirical Research in Accounting.
Professor Van Lent's research is published in a variety of journals and has won the David Solomons Prize awarded by the Journal of Management Accounting Research. His current research interests include (1) the political economy of accounting and finance and (2) the organizational design and performance management.
Laurence van Lent has extensive editorial experience. He has received distinctions for his work as a reviewer, winning Outstanding Reviewer Awards from Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research and BuR Business Research. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of European Accounting Review, the journal of the European Accounting Association from 2011-2015. He held positions on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, and BuR Business Research and was Joint Guest Editor of a special issue of European Accounting Review on Conservatism in Accounting. Between 2017 and 2020, he assumes responsibility as an Editor of The Accounting Review, the flagship journal of the American Accounting Association. He also serves as an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Accounting Research.
Prof. Frank Zhang (Professor, Yale School of Management, Yale University)
Professor X. Frank Zhang is a James L. Frank ’32 Professor of Accounting at Yale University. Professor Zhang's research focuses on empirical capital market researches, including stock anomalies, fundamental analysis, investor and analyst behavior, management incentives, and corporate financial reporting. He is interested in both rational and behavioral approaches in studying stock anomalies and cross-sectional variations in stock returns.