Prof. Madhav V. Rajan
Dean of Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, USA

Professor Madhav Rajan is the Dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Before joining Booth, he spent 16 years on the faculty of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, with a courtesy appointment in the Law School. He served as senior associate dean for academic affairs from 2010-2016, overseeing the school’s MBA program. Professor Rajan’s primary area of research interest is the economics-based analysis of management accounting issues, especially as they relate to the choice of internal control and performance systems in firms. He has served as editor of The Accounting Review, as well as Associate Editor for both the Accounting and Operations areas for Management Science. He has twice been a plenary speaker at the AAA Management Accounting Conference. He is coauthor of Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, and Managerial Accounting, and also a Director of Cavium, Inc. and iShares, Inc. and a Trustee of the iShares Trust.