Christine Botosan is the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Presidential Endowed Chair in Ethical Financial Reporting and Associate Dean of Graduate Affairs at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She has published over 20 articles in peer reviewed journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies,and Accounting Horizons. Christine is the recipient of several AAA awards for research excellence, including the Competitive Manuscript Award, the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award and the Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award.

Christine is the current AAA President (2014-2015) and has served on the AAA Board as Director - Focusing on Intellectual Property (2011-13), the Chair of the Publications Committee, a member of the Intellectual Property Task Force II, and a member of the Sharpening Our Vision Task Force. She has served as President and Treasurer of FARS, and has been a member of the AAA Governance Review Task Force (2009-11), the Finance Committee (2007-08), and served on the Financial Accounting Standards Committee as a member (2002-04), as Chair (2004-05) and is currently the Board of Director Liaison. Christine has twenty-five years experience teaching financial accounting and has received five awards for teaching excellence.