Professor S. P. Kothari is an Indian-American academic and the Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at the

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and a Padma Shree awardee. His field of research is strategic and policy issues, securities regulation, auditing, and corporate governance. Professor Kothari has senior executive experience in government, academia, and industry. Most recently, he served as

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and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis at the

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from 2019 to 2021. He is also the editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics. During 2008-2009, he was Global Head of Equity Research,

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, acquired by

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on June 11, 2009. Prior to 2008, he was also Deputy Dean and the head of the department of Economics, Finance and Accounting. Kothari earned his B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) is a Deemed university in Pilani, Jhunjhunu, India. It focuses primarily on higher education and research in engineering and sciences. After expansion to a campus in Dubai, it has ...

, his M.B.A. from the

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) is the world's number 1 business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by Ministry of Human Resource ...

, and his

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from the

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. He was awarded the

Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferr ...

in 2020.

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External links

MIT Sloan faculty page

Faculty page at MIT

SEC Bio
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