President-Elect


Terry J. Shevlin is Professor of Accounting, Paul Merage Chair in Business Growth, Associate Dean of Research and Doctoral Programs at the University of California, Irvine Paul Merage School of Business. He previously taught at the University of Washington for twenty-six years. Terry served as Senior Editor of The Accounting Review (2002-05), Co-Editor of Accounting Horizons (2009-12), and Editor of Journal of the American Taxation Association (1996-99). He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Accounting Horizons, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Accounting & Economics, and Journal of Accounting Research. Terry is co-author of the 5th Edition of Taxes and Business Strategy: A Planning Approach. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Terry currently serves AAA on the Board of Directors and Council as Vice President-Research & Publications (2015-18), is Chair of the AAA Research Committee (2015-18) and member of the AAA Publications Committee (2016-18) and AAA's ATA and FARS Sections. He has served as Chair of the AAA Publications Committee (2013-16), as a member of the AAA Publication Ethics Task Force (2012-15), Recommendation Leader for the Pathways Commission Task Force focusing on Future Demand for Faculty, on AAA Council (2007-09), as President (2007-08) of ATA, as Chair of the AAA Deloitte Wildman Medal Award Committee (1997-98), AAA Competitive Manuscript Award Committee (2004-05), and AAA Financial Reporting Issues Conference Committee (2006-07), and as member of the AAA Annual Meeting Committee (1999-2000), AAA New Faculty Consortium Committee (2001-02), and AAA Nominations Committee (2009-10). Terry has served as AAA Doctoral Consortium Distinguished Visiting Faculty five times.

Terry has thirty-two years' experience as a faculty member and has received a number of awards including the ATA Tax Manuscript Award (2017, 2004, 1995, 1992), AAA's Outstanding Accounting Educator Award (2012), the ATA Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award (2005), and the AAA's Competitive Manuscript Award (1990 and 1987). He has received the University of Washington's Business School Dean's Faculty Research Award four times.

Vice President-Research & Publications


Mark L. DeFond is Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and A.N. Mosich Chair and Professor of Accounting in the Leventhal School of Accounting at the University of Southern California (USC) having served on its faculty since 1987, where he serves on the Leventhal School Recruiting Committee. He served at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as Associate Professor while on sabbatical from USC. Mark has thirty-one years’ experience as a faculty member. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington.   

Mark has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Management Science, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons, Journal of International Accounting Research, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Research in Accounting Regulation. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of Accounting & Economics and as an Executive Editor of The Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting and has served as Senior Editor of The Accounting Review and as Associate Editor of Contemporary Journal of Accounting and Economics, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics. Mark serves on the Editorial Board of The Accounting Review, Journal of International Accounting Research, and Accounting and Finance and previously Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, and Journal of Accounting Research

Mark has received a number of academic awards for excellence including Journal of Accounting & Economics Best Paper Award (2007), the AAA’s Auditing Section Notable Contribution to Auditing Literature Award (2006), USC Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring Faculty (2005), USC Marshall School’s Dean’s Educator of the Year Award (2005), and is a four-time winner of USC’s MBA Golden Apple Teaching Award.

Mark is a member of Auditing (AUD), FARS, and IAS Sections. He served as Chair of the Outstanding Auditing Dissertation Selection Committee (2009-10) and Notable Contributions to Auditing Literature Award Selection Committee (2006-07), and Mid-Year Meeting Program Committee Co-Chairperson (2005-06) of the Auditing (AUD) Section. He has served as Chair (2004-05) and member (1999-2000, 2003-04) of the AAA Doctoral Consortium Committee, as Chair of the International Accounting Research Committee (1989-99), and as a member of the AAA Notable & Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award Screening Committee (2002-03) and AAA Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award Committee (2001-02).  Mark’s research has been quoted in the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Oversight Hearing on Accounting and Investor Protection Issues Raised by Enron and Others (2002) and by the US House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services: Testimony on the Corporate Auditing and Accountability and Transparency Act of 2002 (2002).


Director-Focusing on Segments

Audrey A. Gramling is Chair and Professor of the Department of Accounting in the College of Business at Colorado State University (CSU) where she serves on the Administrative and Executive Committees and the International Advisory Board and previously as an EKS&H Faculty Fellow. Before CSU, she served on the faculty at Bellarmine University, Kennesaw State University, Georgia State University, Wake Forest University, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Audrey earned her Ph.D. from The University of Arizona.

Audrey has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including Issues in Accounting Education, Accounting Horizons, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Current Issues in Auditing, International Journal of Auditing, and The CPA Journal. She is co-author of two auditing textbooks and several monographs and other publications. Audrey serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Current Issues in Auditing, and Journal of Accounting Education.

Audrey served AAA on the Board of Directors and Council as Council Chair (2015-16), as member of the AAA Recruiting Advisory Board (2015-17) and the AAA Strengthening Our Vision (SOV) Strategic Operations Task Force (2014), and on AAA Council (2008-13). She is a member of AAA’s ABO, APLG, Auditing (AUD), and TLC Sections. She served APLG on the Nominations Committee (2016-17), and Auditing (AUD) Section as Nominations Committee Chairperson (2010-11), Outstanding Educator Award Selection Committee Chairperson (2009-10), Past-President (2009-10), President (2008-09), Vice President-Academic (2007-08), and Secretary (2000-02). Audrey serves on the AAA COSO Committee (2010-present) and AAA Governance Committee (2017-20) and has served on the AAA Council Advocacy Review Committee (2014-15), AAA Council Committee on Awards Committee (2011-13), AAA Nominations Committee (2010-11), and numerous AAA award and other committees.

Audrey has twenty-three years’ experience as a faculty member and served a one-year term as Academic Accounting Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the SEC. She is a member of the Center for Audit Quality’s Accounting Academic Sounding Board and served as a COSO Advisory Council Member for the Internal Control-Integrated Framework Update Project. Audrey has received a number of academic awards for excellence including the Kennesaw University Coles College Distinguished T.P. Hall Service Award (2012) and Distinguished Professor Award (2010).