Featured Speakers

John L. Campbell, PhD, CPA is a Professor of Accounting and Finance, and the Herbert E. Miller Chair in Financial Accounting in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He earned a PhD at the University of Arizona. Prior to that, he worked as an investment banker, auditor, and financial reporting manager for an SEC registrant.

Dr. Campbell’s research lies at the intersection of accounting and finance. His papers examine capital market consequences of accounting and tax information, and generally have implications for financial market regulations. He has published over 35 peer-reviewed articles in top tier accounting and finance journals. He serves the research community as an editor at the Review of Accounting Studies and on the editorial board of The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial Reporting, and the Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting. He previously served a four-year term as editor at Contemporary Accounting Research. 

Dr. Campbell is active in doctoral education, having served on 22 doctoral dissertation committees, and as the PhD Program Director at UGA for 8 years. He is also active with relevant regulatory bodies, serving on both the Academic Resource Group (ARG) and the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), and having presented his research to the FASB, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). His research has been cited by Bloomberg, SeekingAlpha.com, the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, and he has been quoted in articles by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, National Public Radio (NPR)’s Morning Edition, and NPR’s Marketplace podcast.

Isabella Grabner is Professor of Strategy and Managerial Accounting at WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business). She obtained her PhD from WU Vienna in 2009 and rejoined the university in 2018 after serving on the faculty of Maastricht University.

Her research explores how performance management and management control systems enable effective decision making, strategy execution, and transformation in complex organizations. Key areas of interest include innovation and creativity, the identification, development, and retention of talent, and how organizations manage digital transformation (e.g., remote work and advanced analytics) and green transformation (e.g., ESG integration). She also studies the challenges firms face in adopting management innovations and new technologies.

Her work is published in leading scholarly journals, including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Management Science, and The Accounting Review. She has received numerous international research awards, including the 2016 Best Early Career Researcher in Management Accounting (American Accounting Association), the 2014 Maastricht University Excellent Young Scholar Award, and the 2012 Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting Outstanding Paper Award.

She teaches management accounting and strategy execution in BSc and MSc programs as well as MBA and Executive MBA programs. She works closely with organizations through company collaborations in both research and teaching, supporting leaders in the design and implementation of performance management systems that drive execution, innovation, and sustainability.

Jeffrey Hales teaches global corporate sustainability at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Bake Chair in Global Sustainability Leadership, is the Charles T. Zlatkovich Centennial Professor of Accounting, and serves as the Executive Director of the Global Sustainability Leadership Institute.

He is a graduate of the accounting program at Brigham Young University and received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. His research interests center on accounting standard setting and regulation, individual decision making, and behavioral finance, using techniques from applied game theory, experimental economics, and psychology. His research has appeared in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Financial Economics, among other journals. He has served in editorial capacities at several journals, including editorial terms at Contemporary Accounting Research and Accounting Horizons.

Since July 2022, he has served on the International Sustainability Standards Board. From 2012 to 2022, he served in various leadership capacities at the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), including as Chair of the SASB Standards Board. During 2009-10, he was a Research Fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in Norwalk, CT, and served as a member of the FASB’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council from 2016-2019.

Bridget Stomberg is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Bloomington, the Glaubinger Chair for Undergraduate Leadership, and a Professor of Accounting. Bridget’s research focuses on corporate tax reporting and enforcement. She has published in top accounting journals and received the 2024 AAA Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award for co-authored work on corporate tax enforcement. She has served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Journal of the American Taxation Association.

Bridget has taught financial accounting and tax courses at the undergraduate, graduate and PhD levels. She is a textbook coauthor and has won several awards for her teaching including the IU Trustees Teaching Award, the Kelley School Innovative Teaching Award, and the Kelley School of Business Graduate Accounting Program Outstanding Faculty Award. She was also a Lilly Teaching Fellow at the University of Georgia.

Bridget joined Indiana University in 2017 from the University of Georgia, where she was on faculty since 2013. She earned her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. Bridget co-hosts a podcast, Taxes for the Masses, with Professor Lisa De Simone.  

Gary McGill is the Senior Associate Dean of the Warrington College of Business, the Director of the Fisher School of Accounting, and the Director of the Hough Graduate School of Business. He holds the J. Roy Duggan Endowed Professorship in Accounting. Professor McGill, a CPA, practiced at Ernst & Whinney in Dallas before earning his PhD at Texas Tech University and joining UF in 1986.

He has taught various graduate and undergraduate tax and accounting courses, receiving numerous teaching awards. Professor McGill has published over 65 journal articles, book chapters, or research reports, co-authored six books, and is the recipient of several competitive research grants. He provided invited testimony to the Senate Finance Committee hearings on Enron in 2003 (with E. Outslay), received the JATA Outstanding Paper Award in 2012 (with M. Donohoe), and the ATA Outstanding Manuscript Award in 2005 (with E. Outslay).

Professor McGill has served on the editorial boards of several leading journals, served on the boards of the American Taxation Association, the AAA’s Leadership in Accounting Education section, and the Federation of Schools of Accountancy (FSA), including as President of both the FSA and the Leadership in Accounting Education section. He was elected President-elect for the AAA in 2025. Professor McGill served 14 years on the AACSB’s Accounting Accreditation Committee. He was awarded the James Benjamin Lifetime Service Award by the AAA Leadership in Accounting Education Section in 2024, the Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award by the ATA in 2018, the FSA/Joseph A. Silvoso Faculty Merit Award in 2015, and he was the inaugural recipient of both Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business Distinguished Alumni Faculty Award in 2015 and inductee of theLyons School of Accounting PhD Hall of Fame in 2025.