Richard Leftwich

Administrative Oversight Committee
Deputy Dean for Faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Accounting and Finance

Richard Leftwich’s research, teaching, and consulting focus on securities markets and corporate reporting. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Accounting Research and has served on the editorial boards of the Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Bank of America Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and Abacus. He has conducted seminars in finance in Europe and the United States for investment managers and has served as a consultant to commercial banks, investment banks, and insurance companies, and has served as an expert witness in commercial litigation in federal and state courts.