President–Elect

David Burgstahler is Julius A. Roller Professor of Accounting at the University of Washington. Dave has taught at the University of Washington since 1981, where he previously served as Acting Dean in the School of Business and Associate Dean for Masters Programs and Executive Education. He earned his Ph.D. from The University of Iowa and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Issues in Accounting Education, and Contemporary Accounting Research. He is currently an Editor of The Accounting Review, serves on the Editorial Board ofJournal of Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting, and served as Associate Editor (1997-2000) and Editorial Board Member (2000-04) of Accounting Horizons, The Accounting Review (1983-86) and (1992-2003), Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (multiple years) and on the Editorial Board of several other peer-reviewed journals.

Dave is a member of AAA’s FARS andMAS Sections. He served on the AAA Board of Directors as Vice President-Publications (2006-09), Publications Committee as Chair (2007-09) and member (2003-06), Competitive Manuscript Award Committee as Chair (1992-93) and member (1989-91), Notable and Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award Screening Committee as Chair(1991-92) and member (1987-88), Doctoral Fellowships Committee (1993-95), and as a member of AAA’s AUD and TLCSections.

Dave has over thirty years experience teaching, has served on over fifty Ph.D. Supervisory Committees, thirty Doctoral Dissertation Reading Committees, and has presented his research at over sixty-five conferences.  He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence and is the recipient of the University of Washington’s Schoeller Senior Fellow (2014-15), AAA’s Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award (2002), Beta Alpha Psi Professor of the Year (multiple years) and has been awarded numerous faculty fellowships and research grants.

Vice President-Finance-Elect

Leslie is a member of the AAA’s AUD andFARS Sections.  She has served as FARS Mid-Year Meeting Research Coordinator(2011-12), as a member of the AAA’s ATASection, on the Trueblood Seminars Committee (2009-10), and as an AAA Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2000).

Leslie has over thirty years of teaching experience and has received many academic awards for excellence including the Kelley School of Business Innovative Teaching Award (2013), Kelley School of Business Outstanding Researcher Award (2008), and AAA/Deloitte Wildman Medal Award (2009).  She is a CPA and has presented at over seventy domestic and international conferences, and served on FASB as an Academic Consultant for Post-Implementation Review (2013). Leslie has also recently served as an Advisory Board Member of MNB Technologies, as consultant and expert witness, and as Supervisory Committee Chair on the Board of Directors for Indiana University Federal Credit Union.

Vice President-Research & Publications

Terry J. Shevlin is Professor and Director of the Ph.D. Program at the University of California, Irvine. Terry previously taught at the University of Washington for twenty-six years, where he was Accounting Department Chair (2006-12) and School of Business Doctoral Program Director (1998-2006).  He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Terry served as Senior Editor ofThe 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, and Contemporary Accounting Research.

Terry serves as the Publication Committee Chair (2013-present) and as a member of the Publication Ethics Task Force (2012-present).He is a member of the AAA’s ATA and FARS Sections and serves as aRecommendation Leader for the Pathways Commission Task Force focusing onFuture Demand for Faculty. He served onAAA Council (2007-09), as President(2007-08) of ATA,and as a member ofAAA’s APLG Section. Terry has served asChair ofthe Deloitte Wildman Award Committee (1997-98), Competitive Manuscript Award Committee (2004-05), and Financial Reporting Issues Conference Committee (2006-07), and as member of the Annual Meeting Program Committee (1999-2000), New Faculty Consortium Committee (2001-02), andAAA Nominations Committee (2009-10). He has served as AAA Doctoral Consortium Distinguished Visiting Faculty five times.

Terry has twenty-eight years teaching experience and has received a number of awards including the AAA’s Outstanding Accounting Educator Award (2012) and the AAA’s Competitive Manuscript Award (1987 and 1990). He has received the University of Washington’s Business School Dean’s Faculty Research Award four times.

Director - Focusing on Segments

Patricia M. Poli is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Dolan School of Business, Fairfield University. She currently serves as a Co-Chair of the University’s Water Steering Committee – a two-year interdisciplinary campus-wide initiative focusing on water’s significance in the environment, society, and our health. Pat obtained her Ph.D. from New York University.

Pat served on AAA Council as Chair(2013-14), is currently Past Chair of Council, and has been a Council member for seven years (2001-02, 2003-04, and 2010-15). She is a member of AAA’s AUD,FIA, and IAS Sections. Pat has served asPresident (2003-04) and Program Chair(2002-03) for the Northeast Region. For theIAS Section she served as President (2010-11), Nominations Committee Chair (2012-13), Co-Chair of Mid-Year Meeting (2009-10), and Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee (2008-09) that developed the IAS’s 2009 Strategic Plan, and as Teaching and Curriculum (Education) Chair (2004-05).  Pat has served on AAA’s FARSSection, as a member of the Global Summit Task Force (2011-12), and theMembership Advisory Committee (2004-05).

Pat has more than 25 years of teaching experience and is a Faculty Fellow of the Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network. She is a co-author of the audit simulation, Proli Footwear, Inc. and has received research awards for articles published in the Transportation Research Forum.  Pat has served on the Board of Directors of Beta Alpha Psi (2007-11), having chaired its 2011 Annual Meeting. She is a member of the Connecticut Society of CPAs, currently serving as a member of its Educational Trust Fund.  Pat has served as its President (2005-06) and member and Chair of many of its committees.