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Prof. S.P. Kothari | |
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| Education | BITS, Pilani IIM, Ahmedabad University of Iowa |
| Title | Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance |
| Honours | Padma Shri (2020) |
ProfessorS. P. Kothari is an Indian-American academic and the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at theMIT Sloan School of Management and a Padma Shree awardee. His field of research is strategic and policy issues, securities regulation, auditing, and corporate governance.[1]
Professor Kothari has senior executive experience in government, academia, and industry. Most recently, he served asChief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis at theUS Securities and Exchange Commission from 2019 to 2021. Kothari led 160 economists and data scientists focused on US securities regulation, domestic and international prudential regulation, and data analytics.[1]
In academia, Kothari was deputy dean of MIT Sloan School of Management (2010-15), and previously he headed the Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting at MIT. In addition, he Co-Chaired the Board of Governors of Asia School of Business, Kuala Lumpur, served as faculty director of the MIT-India Program, and edited the world-renowned academic publicationJournal of Accounting & Economics. Kothari has also taught atHarvard Business School,London Business School, and theUniversity of Rochester.
From 2015-2019, Kothari served as a director ofBombay Stock Exchange (BSE). During this time, he was actively engaged in many strategic decisions such as the public listing of BSE, the launch of India’s first international exchange (INX), and the expansion of the mutual fund trading platform. In January 2021, Kothari rejoined the board ofVelan Studios where he was a founding director from 2016-2019.Velan Studios is a technology and design company specializing in video gameplay experiences with products likeMario Kart Live. Kothari also serves on the boards of EIC, a provider of breakthrough technology for energy storage and gas compression, and Aveta Biomics, a head-and-neck cancer drug development firm.
Throughout his career, Kothari has consulted extensively on valuation and reporting, risk management, auditing, and management compensation with many large corporations, including leading US and international banks, the U.S. Department of Justice,Goldman Sachs, Australian television broadcast corporations, US steel companies,E&Y,KPMG, andPwC. He is an expert on economic policy issues and has written numerous opinion-page editorials inThe Wall Street Journal,The Economic Times, The Hindu Business Line, etc.
Professor Kothari is a recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship, includingIndia’s Padma Shri award in 2020, Honorary Doctorates fromLondon Business School in 2019,University of Cyprus in 2016, andUniversity of Technology, Sydney, in 2013, andAmerican Accounting Association’s Distinguished Contributions to the Accounting Literature award in 2019.[2]
He earned hisB.E. in Chemical Engineering from theBirla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, hisM.B.A. from theIndian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and hisPh.D. from theUniversity of Iowa.
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