Theodore Sougiannis is the KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accountancy and interim head of the Department of Accountancy. Sougiannis joined the Gies College of Business faculty in 1990 and has held numerous leadership roles within the College. He served as the...
Dimitris Papanikolaou is a professor in Finance at Kellogg School of Management.
Professor Sugata Roychowdhury’s research focuses on the influence of managers’ incentives on their reporting and disclosure choices, as well as operational and investment decisions. His most recent research focuses on the interaction between voluntary and mandatory disclosures, the implications of...
Rustam Zufarov earned a PhD in Accounting from Rice University in 2020. Rustam’s research interests include voluntary disclosure, corporate financing, and healthcare accounting.
Neil D. Pearson is the Harry A. Brandt Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Research Fellow of the Canadian Derivatives Institute. He previously served on the faculty of the Simon Graduate School of Business Administration...
Spyridon Lagaras is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research spans corporate finance, corporate restructuring, labor economics, and entrepreneurship, with a particular emphasis on how firms’ organizational choices and...
Heitor Almeida is Stanley C. and Joan J. Golder Chair in Corporate Finance and academic director of I-degrees at Gies College of Business. He joined the University of Illinois in 2007, and also works as a research associate for the...
