Shiva Rajgopal is a Professor in the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. Prior to his appointment at Columbia in 2015, he was the Schaefer Chaired Professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University between 2010 and 2015. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Washington and Duke University.

Professor Rajgopal received a first-class honors degree in Commerce from the University of Bombay, India and is a Chartered Accountant from India. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Iowa. He is the recipient of the 2006 American Accounting Association (AAA) Notable Contribution to the Literature award, the 2006 Best Paper award from Financial Accounting Research Section of the AAA, and the 2006 Graham and Dodd Scroll Prize given by the Financial Analysts Journal. He is the recipient of the 2008, 2012 and 2015 Glen McLaughlin Award for Research in Accounting Ethics. He is listed as the most prolific author in financial accounting over the last 12 years, and 5th across all years. Graham, Harvey and Rajgopal (2005) was referenced as the article with the highest citation rate among accounting papers.

He is the Departmental Editor of the Accounting track of Management Science. He is also an Associate Editor at the Journal of Accounting and Economics and an ex-editor at Contemporary Accounting Research. He was on the editorial board of The Accounting Review from 2003-2011. He is interested in issues related to financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud and executive compensation. He is widely published in finance and accounting journals. Professor Rajgopal’s research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.

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