Dr. Petro Lisowsky

Biography

Petro (Pete) Lisowsky is a Professor of Accounting at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University and an external research affiliate with the Norwegian Center for Taxation at the Norwegian School of Economics. His research interests focus on U.S. international corporate tax policy, tax reporting and disclosure, organizational form, and financial reporting choices of private companies. He has published in leading accounting journals and taught tax and financial accounting courses at various academic levels, including undergraduate, graduate, executive education, and doctoral students. Additionally, he served as an academic consultant for the Internal Revenue Service from 2005 to 2021 and worked with the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Tax Analysis, the U.S. Defense Department, and Deloitte Tax LLP. Lisowsky was the President of the American Taxation Association from 2022 to 2023. He holds both BBA and Master of Accounting degrees from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He is a licensed CPA.

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