Gilad Livne is a professor of accounting at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. Previously Gilad served on the accounting faculty of the London Business School, Bayes Business School, University of Exeter Business School and University of Bristol Business School. He received his PhD in accounting at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. Gilad is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant, Israel) and worked several years as a senior auditor in Israel, after completing his BA in accounting and economics at Tel Aviv University.
Gilad‘s teaching involves financial statement analysis, international accounting as well as introductory and advanced financial accounting courses. Gilad has taught Undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, Sloan and MSc programmes. In addition to his normal teaching duties Gilad has also been teaching at the London School of Economics (LSE), HEC (Paris), New Economic School (Moscow), Lancaster University, University of Lausanne (Switzerland), Oulu University (Finland) and on various company-specific programmes.
Gilad’s research looks into auditor independence, international accounting, fair value accounting, and compensation. Gilad currently serves on a number of editorial boards of accounting journals. His research has been published in several journals including Accounting and Business Research, European Accounting Review, Journal of Banking and finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Corporate Finance, The Accounting Review, and Review of Accounting Studies.
Gilad is also a co-author of Applying IFRS Standards,” 5th Edition, Wiley, 2025 and co-editor of Routledge Companion to Fair Value and Financial Accounting, 5th Edition, 2025.