Before the election starts, please take a few minutes to get to know the candidates on the 2017 ballot who have been nominated for the following Board of Director offices:

• President-Elect
• Vice President-Education
• Vice President-Finance-Elect
• Director-Focusing on International
• Director-Focusing on Membership

For each position on the ballot, the Board of Directors has provided guidance on the roles and responsibilities and key interests and capabilities for the position based on the Board's analysis of current projects, including ongoing Board positions and mission-related initiatives.

New officers will serve on the Board of Directors for three years beginning at the Annual Meeting in August 2017 in San Diego, California.

President–Elect

Gail has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, IMA Educational Case Journal, Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, and Journal of Educational Leadership. She served as Reviewer for Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of the Academy of Business Education, and Journal of Business Discipline. She is the Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA) Liaison with AAA and coordinates CTLA sessions at the Region Pilot meetings (2013-present), has presented at over 80 conferences including AAA Annual Meetings, Region and Section meetings, as well as state society conferences on issues in accounting higher education, assessment, and innovations in teaching, learning, and curriculum.

Gail served AAA on the Board of Directors and Council as Vice President-Sections and Regions (2010-12) and as Recommendation Leader for the Pathways Commission Curriculum Recommendations (2012-15). She serves as Past President (2016-present) and Midyear Meeting Program Co-Chair (2016-present) of the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Section (TLC), as a member of AAA's Big Thinker Conferences Advisory Boards, and as a member of AAA's APLG, MAS, and TLC Sections. Gail serves on the AAA Publications Committee (2014-present), AAA Education Committee (2016-present), AAA Deloitte Foundation Wildman Award Committee (2016-present), and AAA Annual Meeting Committee (2016-present). She served on AAA Council (2004-06 and 2007-09), as Vice Chair-Academic (2012-14) of TLC, as President (2004-05), Vice President-Academic (2002-03), and member of the Steering Committee (1999-2007) of the Midwest Region, as Chair of the AAA Region Pilot Task Force (2012-13), and on the AAA Nominations Committee (2013-16), AAA Governance Task Force (2009-10), and AAA Membership Advisory Committee (2005-07).

Gail has over thirty years' experience as a faculty member and has received a number of academic awards for excellence including AAA's Outstanding Service Award (2014), Purdue University's Excellence in Experiential Learning Award (2011), Rockhurst University's Excellence in Learning, Leadership & Service Award (2002), Exceptional Service Award (2002), and Undergraduate Instructor of the Year Award (2002).

Marc Rubin is PwC Professor of Accountancy and Chair of the Department of Accountancy in the Farmer School of Business at Miami University of Ohio having served on its faculty since 1990. He has served at the University of Seoul as visiting faculty and as Associate Professor and Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Marc earned his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin.

Marc has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. He has authored research reports for the Financial Accounting Foundation and Governmental Accounting Standards Board, presented at over 50 conferences including AAA Annual Meetings, Region and Section meetings, as well as state and local conferences on issues in accounting education, financial and governmental accounting, and financial statement analysis. Marc serves on the Editorial Board of Issues in Accounting Education and Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, and previously, Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting.

Marc currently serves AAA on the Board of Directors and Council as Director-Focusing on Membership (2014-present), is a member of AAA's Big Thinker Conference on Accreditation Program Committee (2016), and is a member of AAA's APLG, FARS, GNP, and TLC Sections. He has served on AAA Council (1999-2000), as Secretary/Treasurer (2012-15) and Board Member-Academic (2010-12) of APLG, as President (1999-2000) and Vice President of Education and Research (2008-13) of GNP, as Co-Chair of the AAA Annual Meeting Program Committee (2012-13), Chair (2011-13) and member (1998-99) of the AAA Membership Advisory Committee, as Chair (2009-10) and member (2007-09, 2005-06, 1999-2000) of AAA Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award Selection Committee, and as a member of the AAA Council Advocacy Review Committee (2014-16), AAA Finance Committee (2010-13), AAA Education Committee (2009-12, 2000-02), AAA APLG Joint Doctoral Advocacy Task Force (2008-09), AAA Outstanding Accounting Educator Award Committee (2004-05), and AAA Accounting Accreditation Committee (2002-03).

Marc has thirty-two years' experience as a faculty member, is a CPA, and has received a number of academic awards for excellence including the Cincinnati Magazine Outstanding Educator Award (2014) and the Beta Gamma Sigma Distinguished Faculty Award (1998), and several teaching fellowships and research grants.

Vice President–Education

Steven E. Kaplan is Director of the School of Accountancy and KPMG Professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He has served on the faculty since 1981, having previously served as its Doctoral Coordinator, Chair of the Recruiting Team, and as a member of the Graduate Council, Doctoral Committee, Recruiting Team, and Personnel Advisory Team. Steve earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Steve has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Business Ethics, Accounting, Organizations and Society, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. He serves on the Editorial Board for Issues in Accounting Education, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and Behavioral Research in Accounting, and previously served as the Editor of Behavioral Research in Accounting.

Steve has presented at over 30 conferences including AAA Annual Meetings, Region and Section meetings on issues in auditing, financial reporting, management accounting, research design and methods, as well as behavioral and archival approaches to examining decision making involving accounting and/or audit information among managers, auditors and/or financial statement users.

Steve is a member of AAA's APLG, ABO, AUD, MAS, and FARS Sections. He served on AAA Council (2009-14), as President of ABO (2010-11), and as a member of the AAA Professionalism & Ethics Committee (2004-05). As a member of Council Steve Co-Chaired the Expanding Knowledge and Idea Development Task Force for the Sharpening our Vision project. He serves as Convener of the annual gathering of Doctoral Coordinators during the AAA Annual Meeting (2014-present).

Steve has thirty-five years' teaching experience and is the recipient of the ABO Notable (Lifetime) Contribution Award in Behavioral Accounting Literature (2013).

Michael Wells is a World Bank consultant using case studies he develops to hone the judgement skills of professional accountants and regulators and to assist those teaching financial reporting to develop their students' critical thinking skills (2016-present). Before that, as Director, he led the International Accounting Standards Board's (IASB) Education Initiative (2005-2015). Michael developed the Framework-based approach for teaching International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and facilitated its adoption across the world. This approach is consistent with the Pathways Commission's Vision Model for Accounting. The Framework-based teaching materials he developed have been widely translated and are free to download from the IASB's website. Other IFRS Foundation education publications that he led the development of include Financial Instruments: a guide through the official text of IAS 32, IAS 39 and IFRS 7, A Briefing for Chief Executives, Audit Committees and Boards of Directors, A Guide through IFRS and thirty-five IFRS for SMEs training modules.

Michael serves the AAA as a member of the AAA Education Committee (2015-present) and the AAA Innovation in Accounting Education Award Committee (2016-present). He served for nearly a decade as a member of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB), Consultative Advisory Group (CAG), and the International Association for Accounting Education and Research's Board of Advisors.

Michael teaches Advanced Financial Accounting at Imperial College Business School, part of Imperial College London (2015-present). He held a number of faculty positions in financial reporting at University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal) before heading the financial reporting section of its School of Accounting and Finance as Associate Professor (1996-2004).

Michael is a South African Chartered Accountant. While at Ernst & Young (1991-95), he taught Auditing at the University of Natal. He earned his Master's of Accountancy from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has published in peer-reviewed journals including Accounting Education—an international journal.

Vice President-Finance-Elect

Mark H. Taylor is the Andrew D. Braden Professor of Accounting and Auditing in the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University where he Chairs the Department of Accountancy, the University Budget Committee, and serves on the Weatherhead School of Management Appointments Committee. Mark earned his Ph.D. from The University of Arizona.

Mark is a member of two different teams of co-authors on two recent research projects sponsored by the Center for Audit Quality. Mark has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including Accounting Organizations & Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Information Systems, and the International Journal of Auditing, among others. He has also published in professional journals, including the Journal of Accountancy. He served as Reviewer for a number of these and other journals.

Mark currently serves the AAA as a member of the AAA Finance Committee (2014-present) and AAA COSO Committee (2016-present), as Historian of the Auditing Section (AUD), and he is a member of APLG, ABO, and AUD Sections. Mark served as Past-President (2014-15), President (2013-14), Vice President-Academic (2012-13) and Treasurer (2007-09) of the Auditing Section, and as member of AAA Nominations Committee (2014-15), AAA Deloitte Foundation Wildman Award Committee (2012-13), and AAA Regulation Committee (2006-07).

Mark has twenty-three years' teaching experience with a focus on Auditing and Corporate Governance, is a CPA, CFE, and serves as an Independent Trustee and Audit Committee Chair on a number of Investment Company Boards. Mark served a three-year term as Member of the AICPA Senior Technical Committee, the Auditing Standards Board (2010-12) and a one-year term as Academic Fellow in the Professional Practice Group of the Office of the Chief Accountant at the SEC headquarters in Washington, DC. Mark has received a number of academic awards for excellence including the Beta Alpha Psi National Business Information Professional of the Year (2015) and Weatherhead School of Management Excellence in Teaching Award, Graduate Programs (2011).

Director-Focusing on International

Wim A. Van der Stede is CIMA Professor of Accounting and Financial Management and Head of Department of Accounting at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), where he also serves on the Center for Analysis of Risk and Regulation Advisory Board and the School's Research Excellence Framework Strategy Committee. He is also a Visiting Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Wim received his Ph.D. from the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Wim has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals including Accounting, Organizations & Society (AOS), Behavioral Research in Accounting (BRIA), Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR), European Accounting Review (EAR), Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, Management Accounting Research (MAR), Management Science, and The Accounting Review (TAR). He serves as Editor-in-Chief of MAR and on the Editorial Boards of several premier and specialty-area peer-reviewed journals including AOS, BRIA, CAR, EAR, and TAR.

Wim is a member of AAA's MAS Section and the AAA Governance Committee (2015-present). He served on AAA Council (2009-12), as President of MAS (2010-11), and as a member of AAA Global Engagement Committee (2012-14), AAA Finance Committee (2009-12), AAA Doctoral Dissertation Awards for Innovative Research in Accounting Education Committee (2011-12), AAA Innovative Scholarship Task Force (2011-13) and AAA Annual Meeting Program Committee (2000-01). Wim has also been a member, and then, chair, of the European Accounting Association's Publications Committee (2008-13).

Wim has twenty years' teaching experience and has received a number of academic awards for excellence including an Inaugural LSE Education Excellence Award (2016), AAA-Institute of Management Accountants Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education (2009), Maastricht University's International Executive Master of Finance and Control Teaching Award (2008), AAA Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award (2007), University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Golden Apple Teaching Award (2005), and the University of Southern California's Beta Gamma Sigma Professor Award (2005).

Director-Focusing on Membership

David DeBoskey is an Associate Professor in the Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy at San Diego State University, where he is an elected college of business representative of the University Senate and member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. He also serves on the accounting department RTP committee and is the Lamden School of Accountancy BMACC (4+1) Advisor, and Graduate Teaching Assistant Coordinator, among others. He previously served as an Adjunct Faculty at Rutgers University's Business School, where he taught for over 10 years in the Executive MBA Program in Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore. Dave received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University.

Dave has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Banking & Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, International Journal of Economics and Business Research, The CPA Journal, Practical Tax Strategies, International Research Journal of Applied Finance, and Journal of Real Estate Taxation.

Dave serves AAA as a member of AAA's AUD, FARS, and TLC Sections and serves on the AAA Strategic Region Leader Committee (2014-present). He served as President (2015-16) and Program Chair (2014-15) of the Western Region, as Annual Meeting Co-Chair (2013-14) and Regional Coordinator (2011-13) of the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Section, and as a member of the AAA Annual Meeting Program Committee (2013-14). Dave also serves as the Chapter Advocate of Beta Alpha Psi's West and Northwest regions (2014-present) and on the Board of Directors of Beta Alpha Psi (2016-present). Dave also serves the Financial Executives International (San Diego Chapter) as its VP of Academic Relations (2015-present).

Dave has fifteen years' teaching experience, and has received a number of academic awards for excellence including San Diego State University's Most Influential Faculty-Associated Business Students (eight times between 2016-2008), Teaching Excellence Award, Accountancy, College of Business Administration (2015), Outstanding Faculty Award-Most Influential Professor (2013, 2014), and Outstanding Faculty Contribution Award for Service and Research (2012), and Beta Alpha Psi's National Outstanding Faculty Advisor Awards (2011).

Tracie Miller Nobles is an Associate Professor at Austin Community College, where she served as Assistant Department Chair. Previously she served as Senior Lecturer at Texas State University, Adjunct Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, and Department Chair and Instructor at Aims Community College. Tracie received her BS and MS degrees in accounting from Texas A&M University and is working on her doctoral degree in adult education from Texas A&M University.

Tracie is the lead author of Horngren's Accounting and Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting and co-author of College Accounting textbooks, and serves on the Editorial Advisory and Review Board of Issues in Accounting Education.

Tracie serves AAA as a member of AAA's TLC and TYC Sections and serves as Treasurer (2015-present) of the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Section, member of the AAA Education Committee (2016-present), AAA Governance Committee (2015-present), and as Selector on AAA/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize Committee (2016-present). She served on AAA Council (2010-11), as Chair (2010-12) and Vice Chair (2009-10) of TYC, as Education Co-Chair (2014-15) and member (2009-10, 2012-13) of the AAA Annual Meeting Program Committee, as Co-Chair of CTLA (2011-12), as a member of AAA Strategic Region Leader Committee (2014-16), Pathways Implementation Task Force (2012-13), and Recommendation Leader for the Signature Pedagogy and Advanced Placement Accounting Course Recommendations of the Pathways Commission.

Tracie has thirteen years' teaching experience, is a CPA, and is the recipient of a number of awards for academic excellence including the AAA/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize (2015), Texas Society of CPAs, Austin Chapter, CPA of the Year (2016), Texas Society of CPAs Rising Star Award (2014), and the AAA's Two-Year College Section Service Award (2013).

The ballot will be open Monday, February 6 through Tuesday, March 7 at 11:59 pm EDT.

• Regular and Life members of the Association are eligible to vote in this election.

• Student members of the Association may not vote for AAA Board of Directors positions.

• The election will be conducted by online ballot, and paper ballots will be mailed to members 1) without a valid email address, and 2) who have requested to be on the AAA "do not email" list.

If you have any questions, please contact Barbara Gutierrez, Governance Manager, at barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org or 941-556-4117.