About the Dean

Dr. Shahrokh M. Saudagaran is the Gary E. and James A. Milgard Endowed Dean for the Milgard School of Business, and assumed this role on July 1, 2004. The Milgard School serves nearly 400 undergraduate business majors and 60 graduate students. The program offers eight areas of concentration, from accounting to international business. With the recent Milgard endowment, the School is initiating a Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility, a Center for Information-Based Management, and a $3 million endowed scholarship program.

Formerly head of the School of Accounting at Oklahoma State University, Dr. Saudagaran led a school of 300 undergraduate accounting majors, and 150 master's and Ph.D. students.

Saudagaran has been an associate professor of accounting at Santa Clara University and a lecturer at Iranzamin Business College in Tehran. In addition, Saudagaran has been a management consultant with Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young) in Tehran, Iran; a research associate with the Iran Center for Management Studies; the controller for Van Leeuwen Buizenhandel BV in the United Arab Emirates; and has a decade of experience providing consultation and executive training for organizations in Asia, Europe and the United States.

Saudagaran, who earned his Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Washington, has broad expertise in international accounting. He was a Certified Public Accountant.

"He has an impressive refereed publication record in the top accounting, finance and international business journals," said Jack Nelson, UWT Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

Saudagaran is author of an international accounting textbook now in its second edition and editor of a forthcoming handbook on Asian accounting. He is in demand for international accounting conference presentations and keynote addresses around the world.

"Dr. Saudagaran is thoroughly at home in the academic world and in the business world," Nelson said.

Saudagaran is also secretary general of the Asian Academic Accounting Association, past president of the American Accounting Association's International Accounting Section and a member of the National Research Advisory Council of Financial Executives International.

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