Stephen Taylor is UTS Distinguished Professor of Accounting at the University of Technology Sydney, and is also Deputy Chair of the Australian Accounting Standards Board. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and currently serves the ASSA as Treasurer/Director, as well as the Panel B Committee. During 2016-17, Stephen served as the inaugural Australian Business Deans' Council Research Scholar, a position focussed on improving the quality and impact of research in Australian business schools, as well as research training. From 2009-2015 inclusive, Stephen served as Associate Dean-Research in the UTS Business School, culminating in their ranking as equal third in Business and Economics in the 2015 ERA results. For the 4 years 2012-2015, Stephen also served as Chair of the representative group of Australian and New Zealand business ADRs, BARDsNet. Stephen was a member of the ERA panel for Economics and Business for the 2015 and 2018 assessments.

Immediately prior to joining UTS in August 2008, Stephen was Professor of Accounting at the UNSW School of Business, where he also served as Acting Assoc Dean (Research) in 2005-2006. He has a PhD from UNSW (Australian Graduate School of Management) and is a CA and FCPA. He was first appointed to a Chair of Accounting at the University of Sydney in 1995, where he also served as Academic Director of the Accounting Foundation. In 2001 and 2002 he served as head of the School of Accounting at the University of Technology Sydney. Stephen has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan (Ross Business School) in 1993-4 and 1999-2000.

Apart from his leadership roles within the university community, Stephen has also had significant external industry and governance experience. He served as the Chair of the Audit and Risk Management Committee for the Rozetta Institute, having also previously served on the boards of both organizations from which this was formed (Capital Markets Co-Operative Research Centre and SIRCA).

Stephen's teaching and research is in the area of Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation. He has wide experience teaching at both the undergraduate and MBA levels, especially in the areas of accounting-based valuation models, investment analysis and financial reporting. He has been a presenter in many executive education courses and has provided expert advice to a wide range of private and public sector organizations, including the role of expert witness in Australia and overseas. Stephen served for over a decade as the academic advisor to a succesful, research-driven quantitative funds manager. He also co-ordinated the research program established by ASIC to undertake a statutory review of the Enhanced (Continuous) Disclosure Regime.

Stephen's research has been published in leading international journals, including the The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Corporate Finance. He has twice received the best paper prize from the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. He is a member of several editorial boards including Contemporary Accounting Research and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. From the 2012-2015, Stephen served as an Associate Editor of Accounting Horizons, the journal published by the American Accounting Association with the specific intent of broadening the application and readership of accounting research. He currently serves as Co-Editor of the International Journal of Accounting as well as being an Associate Editor of the Journal of International Accounting Research.

Apart from his involvement with the Capital Markets CRC, Stephen has received many large ARC Grants (Discovery and Linkage), as well as substantial funding from the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR), which he helped establish in 2013.He also currently serves the ARC as an expert assessor for a variety of funding schemes.