Professor S. P. Kothari is an Indian-American academic and the Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management 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 Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis at the US Securities and Exchange Commission from 2019 to 2021. He is also the editor of the

Journal of Accounting and Economics The ''Journal of Accounting and Economics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on the fields of accounting and economics. The editors-in-chief are J. Core (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), E. deHann (University of Washington), an ...

. During 2008-2009, he was Global Head of Equity Research, Barclays Global Investors, acquired by BlackRock 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. A Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) or a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) is an academic undergraduate degree awarded to a student after three to five years of studying engineering at an accredited college or university. In the UK, a Bache ...

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 b ...

, his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2020.

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Faculty page at MIT

SEC Bio
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Indian emigrants to the United States University of Iowa alumni Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani alumni MIT Sloan School of Management faculty Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education American academics of Indian descent {{US-academic-bio-stub