Ilanit Gavious

Prof. Ilanit Gavious is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Faculty of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She serves as the Head of innovation, entrepreneurship and high-tech management specialties in the MBA program at Ben-Gurion University. She was a visiting Professor at ESSEC Business School, France (2014-5). Ilanit is also a Certified Public Accountant (1996).
Prof. Gavious has a B.A. degree from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Economics (cum laude) and Accounting (1991) and Master's (cum laude) (2002) and PhD degrees (2005) in Finance both from Ben-Gurion University. She did her post-doc at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Her professional occupations include academic research, teaching, academic management of instructional programs, membership in academic committees, advising to corporates and writing expert opinions to law courts. In addition, she was appointed by the Minister of Finance to serve as a member of the plenum of the Israel Securities Authority (2016-9).

Research Interests

Prof. Gavious’s research interests are focused on four core issues:

1. Firm valuation and the valuation of intangibles (e.g., human capital);
2. Earnings management and accounting frauds in various settings (e.g., prior to bankruptcy and reorganization plans; in tax reporting versus financial reporting);
3. The evolution of financial disclosure and accounting recognition in firms’ financial statements;
4. Entrepreneurial finance. Her work has been published in leading academic journals of finance and accounting. She won several Research Excellence Prizes thus far

Education

• Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Accounting and Finance
• Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance
• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics and Accounting