Michelle Hanlon

Michelle Hanlon is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Accounting and Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research at MIT Sloan School of Management. She specializes in taxation and its intersection with financial accounting, focusing on corporate taxation, tax avoidance, international tax policies, and book-tax conformity. Hanlon holds a BBA from Eastern Illinois University, an MAcc from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and a PhD from the University of Washington.

Her research has earned prestigious awards including the Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award and multiple Outstanding Manuscript Awards. She has also authored three textbooks: Financial Accounting, Taxes and Business Strategy, and Intermediate Accounting. Hanlon has testified before U.S. Senate and House committees on tax policy and served as an Academic Fellow for the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee.

Key research interests include the economic consequences of tax policies, mergers and acquisitions taxation, and the reputational effects of tax avoidance. She has advised on global tax reforms like the OECD BEPS 2.0 project and Pillar 2 Global Minimum Tax.