Gary C. Biddle is PCCW Professor and Chair of Accounting at the University of Hong Kong, where he served as Dean. Gary also teaches at Columbia University in New York, Fudan University in Shanghai, and London Business School in the UK. Previously he served on the faculties of University of Chicago, University of Washington, and at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he was Department Head and Associate Dean. He earned his Ph.D. from University of Chicago.

Gary has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, and Review of Accounting Studies. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of premier peer-reviewed journals, as Book Review Editor of The Accounting Review, and as an Accounting Hall of Fame Selection Committee Member.

Gary serves AAA as Director-Focusing on International (2014-present), Chair of the Global Engagement Committee (2014-present), and as a member of FARS, IAS, and the IAS Advisory Board. Gary also has served on fourteen other AAA boards and committees, including Steering Committee, Midwest Region (1982-84), FARS Program Committee (1995-96), Doctoral Consortium Committee (1985-86), Competitive Manuscript Award Committee (1988-89), Deloitte Wildman Award Committee (1994-95), Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Awards Screening  Committee (2006-07) and Council Committee on Awards Committees (2014-15).

Gary’s thirty years of academic experience include twenty-eight recognitions for teaching excellence, two Professor-of-Year awards from the world’s top-ranked EMBA program, and research and funding awards including the FARS Section’s Best Paper Award (1999). Gary also helped found the first Beta Alpha Psi chapter outside of North America. As a CPA, he serves as Council Member of the Hong Kong Institute of CPAs and as Independent Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair of listed companies.

Anne L. Christensen is a Professor of Accounting in the Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship at Montana State University where she has served as Director of Master of Professional Accountancy Program, a member of the Graduate Council, and on the University Service Learning Advisory Board.  She was previously a member of the faculty at Portland State University. Anne earned her Ph.D. from the University of Utah.

Anne has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals including Issues in Accounting Education, The Journal of the American Taxation Association,ATAJournal of Legal Tax Research, Advances in Accounting Education, Journal of Business Ethics, Financial Accountability and Management, and Advances in Taxation. She serves on Editorial Boards for Issues in Accounting Education and Journal of Accounting Education.

Anne served AAA as the Director-Focusing on Segments (2012-15) and on AAA’s Sharpening Our Vision Taskforce I and II (2013-14). She is a member of AAA’s ABO, ATA, and TLC Sections. She served on AAA Council (2008-09 and 2001-03), as President (2010-11) and Program Chair (2009-10) of the Western Region, as President (2001-02), Vice President (1999-2000), and Trustee (2010-12 and 2002-04) of ATA, as Chair of ATA’s Publication Committee (2011-12), ATA/Deloitte Teaching Innovation Awards Committee (2008-09), Accreditation & Curriculum Issues Committee (2006-07), Awards Committee (2004-05), and Nominations Committee (2003-04). She has served on the AAA Strategic Region Leader Committee as Co-Chair (2014-15), and as a member of the Council Committee on Awards Committee (2013-14), Deloitte Wildman Award Committee (2010-11), AAA Journals Task Force (2004-05), and AAA Nominations Committee (2003-04).

Anne has twenty-seven years’ teaching experience and has received twelve awards for academic excellence including Montana State University’s President’s Excellence in Teaching Award and President’s Award for Excellence in Service Learning; the College’s Distinguished Faculty Award and Dean’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Service, and the ATA’s Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award and  Outstanding Service Award.

Margot Cella is Director of Research at the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) where she shapes and promotes CAQ policy objectives, directs activities of the Center’s Research Advisory Board, manages the profession’s anti-fraud strategic initiatives and its partnerships with leading trade associations. She created the annual CAQ Symposium on Audit Research-designed to bring together senior practice leaders and academic scholars to explore issues facing the auditing profession that can be informed by extant and new academic research.

Margot also manages the CAQ’s Research Advisory Board grant program and the Access to Audit Personnel grant program-a joint venture with the AAA Auditing Section-which provides a streamlined process through which behavioral researchers can obtain participants for projects that focus on auditing issues. Both programs are designed to motivate scholarly research in auditing.

Prior to joining CAQ in 2007, Margot served as an Independent Consultant conducting market research and project management consulting, as Global Lead, Products & Geographical Lead for Accenture, as Senior Manager, Product Development & Management for the Women’s Consumer Network, as Research Director for the Food Marketing Institute, and as Senior Associate for Abt Associates, Inc.

Margot has 30 years’ research experience, having conducted public policy studies as well as consumer and business-to-business research.

Margot is a member of AAA’s APLG, AUD, FA, and TYC Sections and has served on the Publication Ethics Task Force (2012-2015). She received the AUD Section’s Special Award for Merit in 2014.  She received her M.S. in Biostatistics at Georgetown University.

Paul H. Munter is a Partner in the Department of Professional Practice-Audit with KPMG LLP where he serves as the lead technical partner for the US firm’s international accounting and IFRS activities, leads the US firm and global network’s efforts on the converged FASB/IASB revenue recognition standard, and is involved in the development of firm positions in response to proposals from the IASB, IFRIC, FASB, SEC and other standard setters, and the development of the firm’s guidance and publications including Comparison of IFRS to US GAAP, and U.S. GAAP and IFRS Guidance on Business Combinations, Revenue Recognition, and Share-based Payment.

Paul has been with KPMG LLP since 2003, having previously served on KPMG’s Global IFRS Panel and also as Director of Audit Services for KPMG US (1995-97).  He served as Academic Accounting Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the SEC (2002-03).

Paul currently serves as Professor of Practice (part-time) at the University of Colorado, and was a member of the faculty at Texas Tech University (1978-1989), and KPMG Professor of Accounting and Department Chair at the University of Miami-Coral Gables (1989-2002).

Paul received the Texas Society of CPA’s first Outstanding Discussion Leader Award, Florida Institute of CPA’s Outstanding Educator Award, and Beta Alpha Psi’s National Business Information Professional of the Year.  He has published in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Accountancy, and Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance.

Paul is a member of AAA’s FARS and IAS Sections. He served as Vice President-Practice of IAS (2004-06), and as member of the Financial Accounting Standards Committee (2009-12), SEC Liaison Committee (2003-04), and Notable & Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award Screening Committee (1998-99). He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado, and is a CPA in New York, Florida, and Colorado.

Martha M. Eining is David Eccles Professor and Director of the School of Accounting at The University of Utah, having served on its faculty since 1992, on its Graduate Council, and as Faculty Vice President and Executive Associate Dean in the School of Business.  She served as Grant Thornton LLP’s first National Professor in Residence.  Martha earned her Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University.

Martha has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including Accounting Horizons, Issues in Accounting Education, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Information Systems, Current Issues in Auditing, and Contemporary Accounting Research, and has served on Editorial Review Boards of, among others, Journal of Information Systems and International Journal of Accounting Information Systems.

Martha is a member of AAA’s ABO, AIS, APLG, AUD, FA, GIWB, GNP, and TLC Sections and serves on the Notable & Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award Screening Committee (2015-present). She served on AAA Council (1996-97), as Chair of AAA’s Intellectual Property II Task Force (2011-14), Chair (1996-97) of AIS, Chair of AIS’ Initiatives for Research and Publications Committee (2009-10), and Board Member-Academic of APLG (2011-13), and as member of the Deloitte Wildman Award Committee (2000-01), New Faculty Consortium (1995 and 1996) and Membership Advisory Committee (2004-06).

Martha has thirty-four years’ teaching experience and is the recipient of a number of academic awards for excellence including American Woman’s Society of CPA’s Accounting Educator of the Year (2012), AIS Section’s Outstanding Service Award (2005), Utah Accounting Educator of the Year (2001), and several University of Utah teaching and service awards.

Elaine G. Mauldin is BKD Professor at the University of Missouri, where she serves as Faculty Coordinator-SAP University Alliance, and on the P&T and R&D Committees in the School of Accountancy, and previously served as Chair, School of Accountancy Recruiting Committee.  Elaine earned her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska.

Elaine has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Information Systems, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, serves as an editor for The Accounting Review, on the Editorial Review Board of International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, and has served as Associate Editor for Journal of Information Systems.

Elaine is a member of AAA’s AIS and AUD Sections and serves on the Doctoral Dissertation Awards for Innovation in Accounting Education Committee (2015-present). She served on AAA Council (2012-15 and 2008-09), AAA’s Sharpening Our Vision Taskforce II (2013-14), as President (2008-09) of AIS, as Chair of AIS’s Bylaws Review Committee (2006-07), as AIS’ Annual Meeting Co-Coordinator (2004-05), as member of the Annual Meeting Program Committee (2012-13), and Finance Committee (2009-12). She has served as a participant at the Deloitte Trueblood Seminar (2012) and presented at the AAA New Faculty Consortium (2015) and  Doctoral Consortium (2010). 

Elaine has nineteen years’ teaching experience, is a CPA, and has received a number of academic awards for excellence including Trulaske College of Business Miller/Smith Summer Scholar Award (2010-15), Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award (2014), AIS Section’s Outstanding Research Paper Award (2007) and Outstanding Dissertation Award (1998).