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DR. SHARAD ASTHANA

Chairman and Professor, 
Department of Accounting & Business Law, & 
Dean's Distinguished Research Scholar 
College of Business
University of Texas - San Antonio 

Guest Professor, School of Economics & Management
Beijing Jiaotong University         

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Dr. Sharad Asthana is an award winning teacher and researcher who obtained his Ph.D. in Accounting from University of Texas at Austin in 1995 after thirteen years of experience as a senior manager and CEO. Dr. Asthana has published in top-tier Accounting journals, such as, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting and Journal of Information Systems. He is a widely recognized researcher in the areas of pension accounting, capital markets, information technology, and market for audit services. According to a recent publication, he is ranked in the top 25 most published researchers in Accounting Information Systems. The BYU website ranks him in the top 10th percentile of most published accounting faculty, worldwide. He has won two Best Paper Awards and has been inducted twice into the Dean's Research Honor Roll for outstanding research.  He was also won two Teacher of the Year Awards for excellence in the classroom. He is the current Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Performance Evaluation. He has received the Endowed Award for Overall Faculty Excellence in 2014 and was named the Dean’s Distinguished Research Scholar in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Prior to joining academia, he was the Chief Executive Officer / Managing Director of a large Public Sector Corporation in India with over 4,000 employees.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Ph.D. in Accounting, 1995, University of Texas, Austin
Ph.D in Physics (ABD), 1977, Canning College, Lucknow University, India

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