Greg Waymire

Biography

Gregory Waymire is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Accounting at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He has been a member of the Goizueta faculty since 1990. He previously served as President of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section and Vice-President of Research for the American Accounting Association. Waymire will serve as President-Elect and President of the American Accounting Association in 2010-11 and 2011-12, respectively.

Areas Of Expertise

• The spontaneous emergence of accounting standards through knowledge sharing
• Accountability and language as mechanisms to produce trust in economic exchange
• Underpinnings of the FASB''s conceptual framework
• The role of accounting in periods of economic crisis
• The emergence of U.S. information intermediaries in the pre-SEC Era

Education

• University of Chicago: Ph.D., Accounting 1984
• University of Chicago: MA, Business 1980
• Indiana University: BASc, Business 1978