Timothy S. Doupnik
University of South Carolina

Timothy S. Doupnik is a Professor of Accounting at the University of South Carolina, where he has been on the faculty since 1982. He became director of the School of Accounting in August 2003. He has an undergraduate degree from California State University, Fullerton, and received his Master's and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.

Professor Doupnik's research has dealt exclusively with international accounting issues and has been published in various journals, including Accounting, Organizations, and Society; Journal of International Accounting Research; Journal of Accounting Literature; International Journal of Accounting; Journal of International Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation; and Journal of International Business Studies. In an article appearing in a 1999 issue of the International Journal of Accounting, he was ranked first in authorship of international accounting research in U.S. journals over the period 1980–1996.

Professor Doupnik is a past president of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association and he received the section's Outstanding International Accounting Educator Award in 2008. He has served as editor of Advances in International Accounting, associate editor of the Journal of International Accounting Research, and is on the editorial board of several other journals.

Professor Doupnik has been a visiting professor teaching international and financial accounting at a number of universities around the world, including Xiamen University, China; Potsdam University and Marburg University, Germany; Helsinki School of Economics, Finland; and Barna Escuela de Alta Direccion, Dominican Republic. He was a visiting researcher at the University of São Paulo, Brazil in 1981.

Hector B. Perera
Macquarie University

Emeritus Professor Hector Perera is at Macquarie University, Australia. Prior to joining Macquarie University in January 2007, he was at Massey University, New Zealand, for 20 years. He has an undergraduate degree from University of Sri Lanka, Peradeniya, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Professor Perera's research has dealt mainly with international accounting issues and has been published in various journals, including Journal of International Accounting Research; Journal of Accounting Literature; International Journal of Accounting; Advances in International Accounting; Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting; Abacus; Accounting and Business Research; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Accounting Education; Australian Accounting Review; and Pacific Accounting Review. In an article appearing in a 1999 issue of the International Journal of Accounting, he was ranked fourth equal in authorship of international accounting research in U.S. journals over the period 1980–1996.

Professor Perera served as Chair of International Relations Committee of the American Accounting Association's International Accounting Section in 2003 and 2004. He is currently an associate editor for the Journal of International Accounting Research and on the editorial boards of several other journals.

Professor Perera has been a visiting professor at a number of universities, including the University of Glasgow in Scotland; NewSouth Wales University, Wollongong University, and Northern Territory University in Australia; and Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, and Åbo Akademi University in Finland.