Shyam Sunder is the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics, and Finance at the Yale School of Management; Professor in the Department of Economics; and Professor (Adjunct) at the Yale Law School.  He is a world-renowned accounting theorist and experimental economist. His research contributions include financial reporting, dissemination of information in security markets, statistical theory of valuation and design of electronic markets. He is a pioneer in the fields of experimental finance and experimental macroeconomics. Sunder has published six books and more than 150 articles in the leading journals of accounting, economics and finance, as well as in popular media.  He is the immediate past president of the American Accounting Association and a winner of many research awards. Sunder’s current research includes the problem of structuring US and international accounting and auditing institutions to obtain a judicious and efficient balance between regulatory oversight and market competition.