Vice President–International Nominee

Lee D. Parker
Lee D. Parker is Professor of Commerce and Associate Dean (Research) in the School of Commerce at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide, Master of Philosophy from the University of Dundee, Scotland, and Ph.D. from Monash University, Melbourne. He is also a Fellow of CPA Australia, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and the Australian Institute of Management, currently holding positions of South Australian Division President of CPA Australia, and directorship on the board of the Australian Institute of Management in South Australia. He has held academic positions at the Universities of Glasgow and Dundee in Scotland, Monash, Griffith and Flinders in Australia as well as visiting professorships at universities in the U.K., U.S., New Zealand, Singapore, and Kuwait. He is past president of the Academy of Accounting Historians and was chair of the American Accounting Association's Public Interest section 1998-2000.

Professor Parker's teaching record spans strategic management, international management, management accounting, and auditing and he consults in strategic management and management control. His current research includes strategic management, public and nonprofit sector management and accounting, corporate governance, social and environmental accountability, accounting and management history, field research methodology, and historiography. Professor Parker has published over 100 articles and books on management and accounting and is a regular presenter at international conferences and seminars, including plenary addresses to the British Accounting Association annual conference, the ninth World Congress of Accounting Historians, and the Korean Accounting Information Association's annual conference. His papers have appeared in journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, The Accounting Review, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Abacus, The Academy of Management Review, The Accounting Historians Journal, British Accounting Review, European Accounting Review,and Accounting, Business and Financial History.

Joint founding editor of the international research journal Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Professor Parker also serves on 20 other journal editorial boards internationally. He is a founding Fellow of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research at the University of Glasgow (Scotland), a panel member for the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, and has been a Reader in Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences for the Australian Research Council, and an international advisor to the Accountancy Panel of the 1996 and 2001 British universities' Research Assessment Exercises.

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