Robert (Bob) D. Allen is Professor and David Eccles Faculty Scholar at The University of Utah, having served on its faculty since 1991.
Bob currently serves the AAA as a member of AAA Publications Committee (2017-20) and the Auditing (AUD) and TLC Sections. Bob served as the inaugural AAA Council Chair (2011–13), Chair of the AAA Council Advocacy Task Force (2013–14), as member of the AAA Council Committee on Awards Committees (2011–12) and on AAA Council for TLC Section (2010–12). He has served as a member of the AAA Governance Committee (2016-19), AAA Notable and Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award Screening Committee (2016-17), AAA Sections and Regions Strategy Task Force (2011–12), AAA Branding Task Force (2010–11), CTLA Conference Steering Committee (2008–09), and AAA Innovation in Accounting Education Award Committee (2003–04) and (1999– 2000).
Bob served the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum (TLC) Section as President (2010–12), Nominating Committee Chair and member (2016-17 and 2014-15), Midyear Meeting Program Chair (2011-13), and Vice President Academic (2008-10), and the Auditing (AUD) Section as Chair of the Section’s Auditing Standards Committee (2005–06).
Bob has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Advances in Accounting Education, Issues in Accounting Education, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Current Issues in Auditing, Internal Auditing, Journal of Accounting Education, Journal of Applied Business Research, and Journal of Forensic Accounting. He served as Associate Editor of Issues in Accounting Education, Editor of the Faculty Development Update for Accounting Education News (2011–12), and on the Editorial Board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (2008-12).
With twenty-nine years’ experience as a faculty member, Bob has received academic awards for excellence in both research and teaching including the AAA/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize (2018, Graduate Category), the AAA/Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award (2008), the David Eccles School of Business Brady Superior Teaching Award (2017), Professional MBA Distinguished Teaching Award (2016), and the Beta Alpha Psi–The University of Utah Chapter’s Business Professional of the Year (2009). Bob was inducted into the TLC Section Hall of Honor in 2013.
At The University of Utah, Bob recently served on the University Senate Executive Committee and previously as David Eccles School of Business Faculty President and Director of the School of Accounting. He has served on the Board of Directors of a U.S. bank, and gained professional experience with Deloitte, Haskins & Sells as an auditor, prior to obtaining his Ph.D. at Michigan State University.
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).
Wim currently serves on the AAA Board of Directors and Council as Director-Focusing on International (2017-20), as Chair of the AAA Global Engagement Committee (2017-20), and is a member of AAA's ABO, FARS, IAS and MAS Sections. He served on AAA Council (2009-12), and as a member of the AAA Council Committee on Awards Committee (2017-18), AAA Governance Committee (2015-17), AAA Global Engagement Committee (2012-14), AAA Doctoral Dissertation Awards for Innovative Research in Accounting Education Committee (2011-12), AAA Innovative Scholarship Task Force (2011-13), AAA Finance Committee (2009-12) and AAA Annual Meeting Program Committee (2000-01).
Wim served as President of the Management Accounting Section (MAS) (2010-11), and on MAS committees including MAS Dissertation Award, Nominations (Chair), Most Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award (Chair), and MAS Lifetime Contribution Awards (Chair).
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 International Accounting Research (JIAR), Journal of Management, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting & Public Policy, Management Accounting Research (MAR), Management Science, and The Accounting Review (TAR), among others. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of MAR and on the Editorial Boards of AOS, BRIA, CAR, EAR, JIAR, TAR, and other journals. Wim is also a co-author on the Management Control Systems text (Pearson, 4th ed.).
With over twenty-three years' teaching experience, Wim has received a number of academic awards for excellence including the AAA Outstanding International Accounting Educator Award (2019), AAA Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award (2017 and 2007), LSE Education Excellence Award (2017 and 2016), AAA-IMA Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education (2009), Maastricht University's International Executive Master of Finance and Control Teaching Award (2008), 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). Wim is currently co-chair of the EAA Doctoral Colloquium (2019-21) and has been a member, and then, chair, of the European Accounting Association's Publications Committee (2008-13).
Having served on the faculty of the London School of Economics (LSE) since 2006, Wim also serves there as a member of the Center for Analysis of Risk and Regulation Advisory Board and LSE’s Research Excellence Framework Strategy Committee. Prior to joining LSE, he was on the faculty at the University of Southern California. He is a visiting professor at Erasmus School of Economics in The Netherlands and Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. Wim received his Ph.D. from the University of Ghent, Belgium.