Mary E. Barth

Mary E. Barth is the Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting, Emerita at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford in 1995, she was an associate professor at Harvard Business School and an audit partner at Arthur Andersen Co. Professor Barth’s research is published in a variety of journals and has won several awards.

Professor Barth was senior editor of The Accounting Review and previously served as an editor. She has been the accounting department editor of Management Science and co-editor of the Journal of Financial Reporting and served on the editorial boards of several other academic journals. She served as a senior associate dean for Academic Affairs at GSB from 2002 until 2009.

Professor Barth is vice chair of the Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation, which oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. She was a member of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) from its inception in 2001 until 2009 and served as the academic advisor to the IASB from 2009 until 2011. Prior to joining the IASB, Professor Barth’s accounting standard setting activities included serving as a member of the Accounting Standards Executive Committee of the American Institute of CPAs and the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council of the FASB.

Professor Barth was president of the AAA and has served as its vice president and as chair of several AAA committees. She also has served as vice president of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research. She is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK. She was an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She served on the External Audit Committee of the International Monetary Fund, including as its chair.