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Vice President - Research
Günther Gebhardt
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Mertonstr. 17-25
D-60325 Frankfurt am Main
GERMANY
Tel: +49 [0]69 798 28497
Fax : +49 [0]69 798 23618
E-mail:
gebhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de
Günther Gebhardt holds the chair of accounting and auditing at Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Universität Frankfurt am Main and is currently the chairman of the accounting department in the faculty of business administration and economics. Before joining Goethe University in 1991 he was a professor at the University of Muenster and at the University of Bamberg. He was the Metzler Visiting professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1997), visiting researcher at the Stern School, New York University (2002) and visiting professor at the University of Sydney (2005).
His main areas of teaching and research are financial accounting (in particular international accounting, multinational group accounting), risk management and accounting for risk management, corporate valuation and financial analysis. He has published in leading national and international journals and is on the editorial boards of Abacus and the European Accounting Review.
Günther Gebhardt has been and is the coordinator of major research programmes sponsored by the German Research Foundation and by the EU (INTACCT, HARMONIA) and was appointed a Vice President Research of IAAER in November 2006. He is involved in the discussions on standard setting as the chairman of the European Accounting Association Financial Reporting Standards Committee and as a member of the IASB Working Group on Financial Instruments. Before he was a member of the Joint Working Group of Standard Setters on Financial Instruments (1999-2001) and chaired the Working Group on Financial Instruments of the German Accounting Standards Board (1998-2001).