Professor Mary E Barth

Professor Mary E Barth (part-time member) was appointed to the IASB in January 2001.

She is Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Her research focuses on financial accounting and reporting issues, particularly those relating to global capital markets and of interest to accounting standard-setters.

Her research is published in a variety of journals and has won several awards, including the Wildman Medal Award, the Competitive Manuscript Award, and, on two occasions, the Best Paper Award of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association.

Professor Barth has also received awards for her teaching and service to the profession, including:

• the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business,
• the Alumni Distinguished Service Award from the Boston University School of Management, and
• the Outstanding Educator Award from the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Professor Barth has been active in accounting standard-setting activities for many years, having served as a member of:

• the Accounting Standards Executive Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants,
• the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and
• the Financial Instruments Task Force of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

She has also been active in the American Accounting Association, having served as Vice-President and as Chair of several committees, including two with a standard-setting focus.

Professor Barth has also served as an Associate Editor of The Accounting Review and on the editorial boards of several other academic journals in Australia, China, New Zealand, the UK and the US.

She has been a speaker at doctoral consortia in the US and Australia, and at annual meetings of the Chinese Accounting Professors Association and the Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Before joining the faculty at Stanford in 1995, she was an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and an audit partner in Arthur Andersen & Co. Professor Barth is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an AB from Cornell University, an MBA from Boston University, and a PhD from Stanford University.