Moderator and Panelist Bios

SHIRLEY J. DANIEL (Moderator)
Shirley J. Daniel, Ph.D., CPA is Professor of Accountancy and Director of the Pacific Asian Management Institute (PAMI) in the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii. She is also Director of the University’s federally-funded Center for International Business Education and Research. She received her Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University, majoring in accounting with minors in economics and quantitative methods. Prior to her graduate studies, Dr. Daniel was a manager in an international accounting firm. In this capacity, she served clients in a variety of industries, such as manufacturing, distribution, retailing, real estate development and oil and gas exploration. Dr. Daniel is a licensed CPA, is past-president of the Hawaii Society of CPAs, and serves on the Board of Directors of Hawaiian Electric Industries and American Savings Bank.

Since joining the University of Hawaii in 1986, Dr. Daniel has taught managerial accounting, international accounting, financial analysis, auditing, and corporate governance at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as to business executives and managers in the University of Hawaii executive programs. She was 1989 Junior Faculty recipient of the Dennis Ching Outstanding Teaching Award for Excellence in Academic Instruction, and was awarded the University of Hawaii Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching in 1992.

Dr. Daniel works closely with organizations in Hawaii to promote international business and economic development as well as education and training programs in Hawaii. She is the Principal Investigator of the State of Hawaii GEAR UP program, a federally-funded program which helps low-income youth prepare for college.

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SCOTT BOHANNON
Scott Bohannon is the General Manager of the Finance and Strategy Division—including the CFO Executive Board and Corporate Strategy Board—at the Corporate Executive Board and a member of the firm's Corporate Leadership Team, primarily responsible for ensuring high-quality research and service delivery to about 4,000 members. He started with the company as a researcher in the General Counsel Roundtable before becoming the Managing Director of that program 2 years later. Scott soon took over responsibility for the finance, legal, and middle market programs – including the CFO Executive Board and the Audit Committee Leadership Forum – in which capacity he oversaw the launch of 13 additional programs. He also served as the head of CEB European Research and as head of the Member Services organization.

Prior to joining the Corporate Executive Board, Scott practiced law in Washington, DC for Sidley & Austin. He primarily advised telecommunications and energy clients in the United States, Asia, and Australia. Scott also wrote white papers for clients on economic- and technology -intensive subjects, including the Microsoft antitrust trial and high speed Internet access. Before joining Sidley & Austin, he taught Law & Economics at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia bars.

Scott received an M.A and Ph.D. in economics, as well as a J.D., from the University of Virginia. His doctoral dissertation explored entry into monopolized markets in the presence of sunk costs and judiciary uncertainty. He received a B.A., summa cum laude, in Public Policy from Centre College.

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KENNETH V. PEASNELL
Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Associate Dean (Research), Lancaster University Management School

A British citizen aged 63, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London in 1967 and has degrees from Sheffield University, the London School of Economics and a PhD from Lancaster University. He joined the faculty at Lancaster in accounting in 1970 and was promoted to professor in 1977. In 2007 he was made a Distinguished Professor of the University. In 1996, he was the recipient of the British Accounting Association's Distinguished Academic of the year Award, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Association's Hall of Fame.

Professor Peasnell's specialist area of teaching and research is financial accounting. His main area of interest is in how such information is reflected in share prices and is shaped by managerial concerns. His publications include three books and 53 papers in academic journals. This work has received widespread recognition, most recently being the American Accounting Association's 2008 Best Paper Award for his 2006 co-authored paper on accounting for employee stock options, an award given "for the financial accounting and reporting paper judged to best reflect the tradition of academic scholarship, readability and relevance to problems facing the accounting profession and standard-setters" in the years 2003-2007. His co-authored September 2008 Accounting Review paper, "Are asset securitizations sales or loans?", addresses an accounting issue pertinent to improving our understanding of the factors that have led to the current credit crunch.

He is currently Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, a member of the European Accounting Association's Financial Reporting Standards Committee and a member of Academic Advisory Panel of the Accounting Standards Board. He is also a member of the American Accounting Association's Research Advisory Committee. He was managing editor of a British-based leading international academic research journal, Accounting & Business Research, during the years 1993-2006.

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LEE H. RADEBAUGH
Professor Radebaugh is the Kay and Yvonne Whitmore Professor and Director of the Whitmore Global Management Center at Brigham Young University. He received his DBA and MBA from Indiana University and his B.S. in Accounting from BYU. He taught at The Pennsylvania State University and was a visiting professor at Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados (ESAN), in Lima, Peru, and at Glasgow University. He served as President of the Brazil Porto Alegre South Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from July 1, 2000 to July 1, 2003.

He is the co-author of several books, including International Business Environments and Operations, Globalization and Business, International Accounting and Multinational Enterprises, and Global Accounting and Control: A Managerial Emphasis. He has published several other monographs and articles on international business and international accounting in journals such as the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, and the International Journal of Accounting. He is the former Editor of the Journal of International Accounting Research and currently an Area Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies.

His primary teaching interests are international business and international accounting. He is active in the International Association of Accounting Education and Research (IAAER), the Academy of International Business (AIB), the American Accounting Association (AAA), and the European Accounting Association (EAA), and is past President of the International Accounting Section of the AAA and the Secretary-Treasurer of the AIB. He is former Vice President of Communications of IAAER and serves on the Executive Committee as Editor of Cosmos. He is active with the local business community as former President of the World Trade Association of Utah and former member of the Utah District Export Council.

In 2007, he was given the Outstanding Service Award for the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. In 1998, he was named the “Outstanding International Educator” of the International Section of the AAA and “International Person of the Year” by the World Trade Association of Utah. He was elected to the Fellows of the Academy of International Business in 1990.