Speakers
Stephen Zeff
Announcing the Recipient of Lifetime Contribution to International Accounting Literature Award and Saturday Lunch Keynote Speaker at the 2025 IAS Midyear Meeting
The International Accounting Section (IAS) of the American Accounting Association (AAA) is very pleased to announce that Professor Stephen Zeff has been named as the recipient of the 2024-2025 IAS Section Lifetime Contribution to International Accounting Literature Award. This award recognizes an individual who has made notable contributions to international accounting research over the course of their career. This well-deserved accolade is a testament to Professor Zeff’s longstanding commitment to, and achievement and leadership in, international accounting research.
Professor Zeff is the Keith Anderson Professor of Accounting at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University. He joined the Rice faculty in 1978 after two decades at Colorado, Michigan and Tulane and is a past editor of The Accounting Review (1978-83) and a past president of the AAA (1985-86). In 2002, he was inducted as the 70th member of the Accounting Hall of Fame at the Ohio State University (now hosted by AAA). For his dedication to teaching and for his research in the area of international accounting, Professor Zeff received the 1988 AAA Outstanding Educator Award, the 1999 IAS Outstanding International Accounting Educator Award, as well as the 2017 AAA Lifetime Service Award.
From 1991 to 2019, Professor Zeff was the only non-British member of the academic panel of the Financial Reporting Council of the United Kingdom, and from 1981 to 2009 he was the only non-European on the executive committee/board of the European Accounting Association. From 1991 to 2002, he was the International Research Adviser for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, which recognized him as its Honorary Research Fellow in 2003. In 2009, he was made an honorary member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England Wales, only the fourth such distinction the Institute has conferred and the first to an American. In May 2023, he gave the invited Yuji Ijiri Lecture on the Foundations of Accounting at the annual congress of the European Accounting Association in Espoo, Finland.