Dr. Douglas Skinner

Biography

Douglas J. Skinner is the Sidney Davidson Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is a leading expert in corporate disclosure, financial reporting, and payout policies. Skinner joined Booth in 2005 and has held several administrative roles including Deputy Dean Faculty for nine years and Interim Dean during 2016-2017. He played a key role in the financing of the University’s Hong Kong campus, which hosts Booth’s EMBA program in Asia, completed in 2018. Prior to his appointment at Booth, Skinner was the KPMG Professor of Accounting at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He serves as an independent trustee and chairs the audit committee for Harbor Funds, Harbor Funds II, and Harbor ETF Trust. Additionally, Skinner is involved as an expert financial economist in litigation surrounding complex accounting and valuation issues. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics with honors in Accounting and Finance from Macquarie University, Sydney, and both a master’s degree and PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Rochester. Skinner's research focuses on financial reporting, disclosure, auditing, and corporate finance, particularly the capital markets and valuation effects of firms’ financial policies, with publications in top academic journals. He currently teaches Managerial Accounting in the EMBA program and Empirical Research Methods in the Ph.D. program at Booth.

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