Urooj Khan

Biography

Urooj Khan is an associate professor in the accounting division at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He is also a fellow at the Institute of Corporate Governance and Finance at the New York University School of Law. Between 2014 and 2015, he was a part-time researcher with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Financial Research. Previously, he was the Class of 1967 Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School.

Professor Khan’s research examines issues related to financial institutions, financial crises, debt contracting, regulatory enforcement and accounting standard setting. His research has been published in leading accounting and economics journals and he is the recipient of American Accounting Association’s 2012 Competitive Manuscript Award, 2018 Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, 2018 FARS Best Paper Award, 2021 FARS Special Contribution Award, and 2021 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award. He is an associate editor at Management Science and serves on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and the Journal of Financial Intermediation.

Professor Khan holds a Bachelor of Commerce (honors) degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce of Delhi University, a Master of Science in Accounting from Syracuse University, and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Washington.

Research Areas:

• Accounting - Financial, Banking, Capital Markets, Credit Risk, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis

Companies

• Associate Professor The University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business (2021)
• Advisor BOROBABI (2020)
• Class of 1967 Associate Professor of Business Columbia Business School (2016 — 2020)
• Scientific Advisory Board cmorq, Organized Blockchain Data (2019 — 2019)
• Assistant Professor Columbia University (2009 — 2016)
• Part-time Researcher Office of Financial Research (U.S. Department of the Treasury) (2014 — 2015)
• Banking Assistant HSBC Ltd (2002 — 2003)

Education

• PhD University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business (2005 — 2009)
• MS Syracuse University (2003 — 2005)
• B.Com (Hons) Shri Ram College of Commerce (1999 — 2002)