

Skinner has extensive experience teaching in Booth’s MBA, EMBA, Executive Education, and PhD programs. Skinner previously served as editor of the Journal of Accounting Research and the Journal of Accounting and Economics, both top tier academic accounting journals. His research is published in leading academic journals including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics. Skinner’s research addresses a variety of topics in financial accounting, auditing, and corporate finance, focusing on the capital markets/valuation effects of firms’ financial policies. Skinner holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics with first class honors in Accounting and Finance from Macquarie University in Sydney and a master’s degree and PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Rochester. From time to time he serves as an expert financial economist in litigation involving complex accounting, anti-trust, securities, and tax matters. Skinner is an independent trustee and chairs the audit committee for Harbor Funds and ETF Trust, a mutual fund and ETF complex that offers a variety of actively-managed mutual fund and ETF products.

Prior to joining Chicago Booth, Skinner served on the faculty of the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He was responsible for the construction and financing of the University’s Hong Kong campus, the home of Booth’s EMBA program in Asia, completed in 2018. He has served as Deputy Dean for Faculty since 2015 and served as Interim Dean in 2016-17. Skinner joined the Booth faculty in 2005. He is a leading expert in corporate disclosure practices, corporate financial reporting, and corporate payout policy.

Skinner is Deputy Dean for Faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Sidney Davidson Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting.
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