Jagan Krishnan

Background

About Jagan Krishnan

Jagan Krishnan is a Professor and Merves Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Accounting. He is the Director of the Ph.D. concentration in Accounting and teaches undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses in auditing. He has over 30 years of teaching and professional experience in auditing and consulting. He is the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Auditing Educator Award from the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association, the 2003 Musser Award for Leadership in Teaching, and the Beta Alpha Psi Teacher of the Year Award. His research interests include audit quality, corporate governance, auditor litigation, regulation, fraudulent financial reporting, and ESG/CSR activities by accounting firms. He served as an editor of, one of the three association-wide journals published by the American Accounting Association, for six years. He also serves or has served on the editorial boards of : & , and. He has published articles in academic journals including : & . He completed both his MBA and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. Prior to entering academia, he worked in the audit and consulting divisions of affiliates of Ernst & Young and KPMG.