Director and Managing Editor

Professor Robert Bloomfield is the Director of FASRI and the Managing Editor of the FASRI Blog. You can reach him at rjb9 (at) cornell (dot) edu. Professor Bloomfield has been at Cornell University since 1991.

Editorial Board

Our inaugural editorial board includes the people listed below. Additional members of the editorial board will be approved by the existing board and the oversight committee. Editors agree to write at least one blog post per week, encourage others to provide content, and uphold the standards of the blog.

Professor Jeffrey Hales is the current FASB Research Fellow, coming from Georgia Tech, and will be at the FASB from July 2009 to June 2010. You can reach Jeffrey at jwhales (at) fasb (dot) org.

Professor Lisa Koonce is the Deloitte & Touche Endowed Chair in Accounting, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, effective 9/1/2009. You can reach Lisa at Lisa.Koonce (at) mccombs.utexas (dot) edu

Professor Robert Lipe is the first FASB Research Fellow and has returned to University of Oklahoma. You can reach Robert at rlipe (at) ou (dot) edu.

Professor Ray Pfeiffer is the second FASB Research Fellow and has since moved to Texas Christian University. You can reach Ray at r.pfeiffer (at) tcu (dot) edu.

Professor Jeffrey Wilks is a former FASB Academic Fellow and is currently a consultant for the IASB and Professor at BYU. You can reach Jeff at wilks (at) byu (dot) edu.

FASRI Oversight Committee

FASRI’s activities are overseen by an oversight committee, consisting of the follow FASB personnel:

  • Tom Linsmeier, Board Member
  • Ron W. Lott, Research Director
  • Jeffrey Hales, Research Fellow

Please direct all inquiries to Profs. Bloomfield or Hales at the addresses above.