PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Prof. Dr. Sridhar Ramamoorti, is the firm’s Global Director of Thought Leadership, Knowledge, Training and Learning for the North America, LATAM and EMEA regions.

Dr Sri is also a tenured Associate Professor of Accounting, in the School of Business Administration, and a Sustainability Scholar affiliated with the Hanley Sustainability Institute at the University of Dayton.
He has taught a variety of courses, ranging from financial and managerial accounting, to external and internal auditing, forensic accounting, ethics, performance measurement, and business valuation.

Throughout his 35+ years of front-lines, technical accounting and audit/assurance, and teaching and executive experience, Dr. Ramamoorti has remained professionally engaged in practice and theory, serving on multiple Boards, and committees across academic institutions (University of Illinois, Kennesaw State, University of Dayton accounting faculty), and public accounting, including Big4 firms (principal at Arthur Andersen, EY National SOX Advisor, Grant Thornton corporate governance partner).

While with Andersen, he was a key liaison for a $10 million research collaboration with the MIT Sloan School of Management for research on the New Economy. As a member of the AICPA Financial Instruments Task Force, he was a coauthor of SAS 92: Auditing Derivatives, Hedging Activities, and Investments in Securities as well as an AICPA Guide on Auditing Derivatives. Soon after joining EY’s Fraud Investigations & Dispute Services (FIDS) practice, he was in-house EY faculty for training over 1000 EY audit partners and principal in a daylong program on Fraud Risk: Assessment & Response. He was a co-editor of the Research Opportunities in Internal Auditing monograph published by the Institute of internal Auditors (IIA). At Grant Thornton’s National Office, he published several influential books and monographs: Internal Auditing: Assurance & Advisory Services (IIA, 2007 & 2009), COSO Guidance on Monitoring Internal Control Systems (2009), ISACA Guidance on Monitoring Internal Controls Systems and IT (2010), and The Audit Committee Handbook (2010).

EDUCATION

B.Comm. and a Diploma in Mathematics & Statistics

Bombay University, India

M.A./ABD in Accounting & Management Information Systems, and,

Ph.D. in Quantitative Psycholog, from The Ohio State University.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Systems, and Journal of Forensic Accounting Research. He has also published in Management Science, European Management Journal, Research in Accounting Regulation, International Journal of Accounting, and practitioner journals such as Journal of Government Financial Management, The CPA Journal, Internal Auditor, and Strategic Finance. He has published an op-ed in FORTUNE and originated the 2020 COSO-commissioned Research Report on “Blockchain and Internal Control,” sponsored by Deloitte and mentioned in The Wall Street Journal. Sri is a member of all five COSO organizations, including AAA, and was recently elected Chair of The CPA Journal’s Editorial Advisory Board.

AWARDS

Dr. Ramamoorti was the co-recipient of the Max Block Award (2017) for The CPA Journal’s Outstanding Article, the Larry Sawyer/IIA Research Foundation Prize (2014), the Coles College Publication Prize (2015) for being the lead author of A.B.C.’s of Behavioral Forensics (Wiley, 2013), and the National AGA President’s Award twice from the Association of Government Accountants. A prolific speaker, Sri has delivered keynote addresses and made presentations at conferences and symposia in 16 countries.