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Robert J. Swieringa

Professor Swieringa's teaching interests are in the areas of corporate financial reporting, corporate governance, and the use of accounting information for decision making and performance evaluation.

Professor Swieringa was a member of the accounting faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and at the Johnson School before serving as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) from 1986 to 1996. FASB is the key policy-making organization for accounting issues in the United States, and Professor Swieringa gained wide visibility and influence in the corporate community through his work with the group. Professor Swieringa was a professor in the practice of accounting at the Yale School of Management before returning to the Johnson School in 1997 as the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean from 1997 to 2007 and professor of accounting. Professor Swieringa was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School in fall 2007.

An outstanding teacher and lecturer, Professor Swieringa won the Justice Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching at Cornell and has received numerous awards and honors in recognition of his scholarly and professional work. His research interests are in corporate financial reporting, corporate governance, and behavioral accounting.

Professor Swieringa is a past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Graduate Management Admission Council which provides the GMAT, the most widely used assessment test in graduate business studies. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and is a past president of its Financial Accounting and Reporting Section. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Augustana College and a member of the Board of Directors of General Electric.