Dr. Yongtae Kim is the Robert and Barbara McCullough Professor of Accounting at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business, which he joined in 2001. He served as Associate Dean of the Leavey School from 2022 to 2024 and Chair of the Accounting Department from 2015 to 2018. He teaches financial and managerial accounting at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Dr. Kim's research focuses on managerial opportunism, strategic disclosure, capital markets, and corporate social responsibility/ESG. He has published extensively in premier academic journals, including The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of International Business Studies, and Management Science.
Dr. Kim is a former Editor of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and currently serves on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. In 2018, he received the University Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarship, Santa Clara's highest honor for scholarly achievement, and in 2014 he received the University Award for Recent Achievement in Scholarship.
Before entering academia, Dr. Kim worked as a CPA in Korea and spent two and a half years at KPMG Korea. He holds a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.