Jeffrey Pittman

Jeffrey Pittman is a part-time Visiting Professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business. He teaches a PhD-level course, ACIS 6044: Archival Audit Research, in the Fall semester. His research focuses on governance structures' impact on economic outcomes in private and public companies, spanning accounting, finance, and ethics disciplines.

Education: PhD in Accounting from the University of Waterloo (2001). Professional roles include Chair in Corporate Governance and Transparency at Memorial University and visiting positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Accounting Research.

Research outputs appear in top-tier journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, and Journal of Financial Economics. His work bridges corporate governance mechanisms with financial and ethical dimensions of organizational performance.