Opening Remarks

• Peter Easton - Academic Director, Center for Accounting Research and Education at the University of Notre Dame
• Michael Iselin - Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management

KEYNOTE: Standard Setting and Academic Research 

Christine Botosan
Board Member, Financial Accounting Standards Board
 

panel 1: Standard Setting

Moderator:  Hal Schroeder, Board Member, Financial Accounting Standards Board

Panelists:

• Paul Beswick, Partner, Assurance, EY and former chief accountant for the SEC 
   
• Sagar Teotia, Deputy Chief Accountant, Securities and Exchange Commission  
   
• Margot Cella, Senior Director of Research, Center for Audit Quality
   
• Kurt Gee, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Financial Accounting Standards Board

panel 2: Bank Regulation

Moderator:  Michael Iselin, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management

Panelists:

• Joanne Wakim, Chief Accountant, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
• Hal Schroeder, Board Member, Financial Accounting Standards Board  
• Thomas Yurcisin, Partner, EY
• Anne Beatty, Deloitte & Touche Chair of Accounting, The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

panel 3: DISCLOSURE PRODUCERS AND USERS

Moderator:  Ed deHaan, Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Washington Foster School of Business

Panelists: 

• Scott Bauguess, Former Deputy Chief Economist, Securities and Exchange Commission
   
• Mary Conway, President, Conway Communications
• Todd Castagno, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Research
   
• Kimball Chapman, Assistant Professor of Accounting, Washington University St Louis Olin Business School

panel 4: Auditing

Moderator:  Jan Bouwens, Professor of Managerial Accounting, Managing Director of the Foundation for Auditing Research, University of Amsterdam Faculty of Economics and Business

Panelists:

• Dan Sunderland, Chief Auditor, Deloitte 
   
• Patricia Ledesma, Acting Director and Chief Economist, Research and Economic Tools Office of Economic and Risk Analysis, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
   
• Robert Knechel, Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar in Accounting; Director, International Accounting and Auditing Center; University of Florida Fisher School of Accounting
   
• Michael de Ridder, Partner, Global Assurance Quality Inspections Leader, Former Head of Audit; PwC, The Netherlands 
   
• Mark Peecher, Associate Dean of Faculty and Deloitte Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois Gies College of Business

KEYNOTE: Hot Topics at the SEC

Commissioner Hester Peirce
Securities and Exchange Commission

panel 5: DEANS' PANEL

Please review these papers prior to the conference (hard copies will be available at the conference):
Integrating Practice into Accounting Research
Reverse The Curse Of The Top 5

• Bob Kaplan, Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, Harvard Business School
   
• Doug Shackelford, Dean and Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of Taxation, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
   
• Shiva Rajgopal, Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting; Vice Dean for Research, Columbia Business School
   
• Jim Jiambalvo, Professor of Accounting, Orin & Janet Smith Dean, University of Washington Foster School of Business
• Laureen Maines, KPMG Professor, Executive Associate Dean of faculty and Research, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business

Dinner and Evening Speaker in the Clubhouse Ballroom

KEYNOTE: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

• Erich Braun, US Blockchain Audit Leader, KPMG

• Elenie Panos, Director – Audit Innovation, KPMG

KEYNOTE: Academic Research at the SEC

Commissioner Robert Jackson
Securities and Exchange Commission
 

panel 6: Corporate Criminal Investigation and Enforcement

Moderator:  Eugene Soltes, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Panelists:

• Kathleen McGovern, Principal, EY Forensic & Integrity Services (former Deputy Chief at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Fraud Section)
   
• Hui Chen, Consultant, HC Ethics LLC (former compliance counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice Fraud Section)
   
• TBA, Special Agent, Complex Financial Crimes, Federal Bureau of Investigation   

• TBA, Supervisory Special Agent, Money Laundering, Forfeiture and Bank Fraud Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Panel 7: Sustainability, Accounting and Responsible Investing

• Jeffrey Hales, Chair of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board; Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business
• Hans Christensen, Professor of Accounting and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• Sunil (Sunny) A. Misser, CEO, AccountAbility
• Bonnie Saynay, Global Head of Responsible Investment, Invesco
• Gerben de Zwart, Managing Director Quantitative Strategies, APG, The Netherlands

Panel 8: Journal Editors

• Rob Bloomfield, Editor, Journal of Financial Reporting

• Mary Barth, Senior Editor, The Accounting Review

• Christian Leuz, Editor, Journal of Accounting Research
• Joanna Wu, Editor, Journal of Accounting and Economics

Panel 9: HOW MIGHT WE ACHIEVE EVIDENCE-BASED FINANCIAL REGULATION

Moderator: Greg Waymire, Asa Griggs Candler Chair and Professor in Accounting, Emory University Goizueta Business School

Panelists:

• Scott Baugess, Former Deputy Chief Economist, Securities and Exchange Commission
• Christian Leuz, J. Sondheimer Professor of International Economics, Finance and Accounting, Chicago Booth School of Business

Closing Remarks

Peter Easton, Director, Center for Accounting Research and Education