Urooj Khan

Urooj Khan is the Associate Dean for MBA Programs and a professor in the accounting department at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He is also a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC). He previously served on the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Public Markets Advisory Committee (PMAC) and is a former fellow of the Institute of Corporate Governance and Finance at the New York University School of Law. Between 2014 and 2015, he was a part-time researcher with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Financial Research. He is also an advisory board member of Manymoons, Inc. (formerly, Borobabi, Inc.). Prior to joining the University of Texas at Austin, he was the Class of 1967 Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School.

Professor Khan’s research examines issues related to financial institutions, financial crises, debt contracting, regulatory enforcement, and accounting standard setting. His research has been published in leading accounting and economics journals, and he is the recipient of the American Accounting Association’s 2012 Competitive Manuscript Award, 2018 Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, 2018 FARS Best Paper Award, 2021 FARS Special Contribution Award, and 2021 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award. At the McCombs School of Business, he has received the Best MBA Core Class Award in 2024 and 2026, as well as the 2025 Award for Research Excellence. He is an editor at Contemporary Accounting Research. Previously, he served as an editor at The Accounting Review and as an associate editor at Management Science. 

Professor Khan holds a Bachelor of Commerce (honors) degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University; a Master of Science in Accounting from Syracuse University; and a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Washington.