People

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Scott Dyreng

TAX POLICY NETWORK

Scott Dyreng is Senior Associate Dean for Innovation and Professor of Accounting at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. His research interests are in corporate tax avoidance, international taxation, and debt contracting. He has published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Accounting Research, among others. He teaches tax strategy and managerial accounting to graduate students, and has received the Excellence in Teaching Award multiple times. He received his PhD at the University of North Carolina in 2008. He holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in accounting from Brigham Young University, and an Associates Degree from Snow College.

Jeff Hoopes

TAX POLICY NETWORK

Jeff Hoopes is a Professor at the University of North Carolina and the research director of the UNC Tax Center. Jeff received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of Michigan. He is a CPA in the State of Colorado. Jeff teaches Taxes and Business Strategy and Accounting and Public Policy to graduate and undergraduate students. He researches corporate tax, and his research focuses on the intersection of accounting, public economics and finance. He has published in many academic research outlets, and, has written opinion pieces published in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and The Hill, and his work has been cited in media outlets such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Forbes, CNN, NPR, Fortune, Washington Post, Time, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, and USA Today. He has testified before Congress, advised the Congressional Budget Office, worked on consulting projects with the Internal Revenue Service, and is on the Advisory Council of The Tax Foundation. Jeff co-hosts a podcast called Tax Chats.

Martin Jacob

TAX POLICY NETWORK

Martin Jacob is Professor of Accounting and Control at IESE Business School. He received his undergraduate degree in business administration and his doctoral degree from the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research focuses on the economic effects of taxation on business decisions. His work has been published in several leading international journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Review of Financial Studies, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Journal of Public Economics. He further is an editor of The Accounting Review (since 2023). He was an Associate Editor of Accounting & Business Research and of the European Accounting Review from 2016 to 2023. His research has been widely cited in newspapers as well as policy debates.

Rebecca Lester

TAX POLICY NETWORK

Rebecca Lester is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Her research studies how tax policies affect corporate investment and employment decisions. Her work has been published in leading academic journals and has been cited by the U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation. Her work has also been featured in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg. She was selected as one of Poets and Quants “40 Best Business Professors Under 40” in 2018 and received the Stanford MBA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2021. Professor Lester received her PhD in Accounting from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has a B.A. and a Masters of Accountancy from the University of Tennessee, where she studied on a full four-year academic scholarship. Prior to her studies at MIT, she worked for eight years at Deloitte in Chicago, including five years in the M&A Transaction Services practice.

Maya Chandrasekaran

PROGRAM DIRECTOR, TAX POLICY NETWORK

Maya Chandrasekaran is an applied economist who specializes in impact evaluations, global health, and ethical and effective survey-based research. Her research has primarily focused on the gendered impacts of the energy transition in low- and middle- income countries and especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work has appeared in Energy Economics, Environmental Research Letters, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health. Maya holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from Duke University and a BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University. She pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina where she primarily worked on a United Nations commission for the economic value of water and a practitioner’s book on the value of time in low- and middle-income countries, soon to be published with Oxford University Press.

tax policy network fellows

Erin Towery

KPMG-Atlanta Partners’ and Employees’ Professor, J.M. Tull School of Accounting, Terry College of Business University of Georgia

Marcel Olbert

Professor of Taxation, Accounting, and Finance, University of Mannheim

Andrew Belnap

Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting, Red McCombs School of Business

Robert Hills

Assistant Professor of Accounting, Terry College of Business University of Georgia

Ryan Hess

Assistant Professor at the J.M. Tull School of Accounting, University of Georgia

Frank Murphy

Assistant Professor of Accounting, School of Business at the University of Connecticut

Nadine Riedel

Director of the Institute for Public and Regional Economics, University of Münster

Pete Lisowsky

Professor of Accounting, Questrom School of Business at Boston University

Douglas Shackelford

Founder, UNC Tax Center