Kurt H. Gee

Kurt H. Gee is an award-winning Associate Professor of Accounting at The Ohio State University, where he teaches in the Fisher College of Business and conducts research on how companies communicate financial information to investors. 

Dr. Gee’s research focuses on issues of importance to accounting policymakers, and he is an expert on company reporting practices that are not in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (i.e., Non-GAAP or Alternative Performance Measures). His research is published in premier academic journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, and Contemporary Accounting Research. Dr. Gee received the 2026 Pace Setters Faculty Research Award at Ohio State in recognition of the notable contributions of his research. Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Dr. Gee received the Les Shonto Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award while faculty at the Pennsylvania State University. 

Early in his career, Dr. Gee served as the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) inaugural Post-Doctoral Fellow. In this role, he liaised between accounting academia and the FASB to incorporate academic research into the standard-setting process. As a result of this experience, Dr. Gee views accounting academia as part of a larger ecosystem of accounting practice, and he strives to teach and conduct research in a way that contributes to both academia and this larger ecosystem.

Dr. Gee received his PhD from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Prior to studying at Stanford, he graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, with a master’s degree in accountancy and bachelor's degrees in accounting and economics.

Outside of academic pursuits, Dr. Gee enjoys Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), video games, and spending time with his three sons.

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