Edward L. Maydew

Ed Maydew is the David E. Hoffman Distinguished Professor of Accounting and the Senior Executive Director of the UNC Tax Center. His teaching and research interests include taxation and accounting, the intersection of the two, and their roles in economic decisions.

Dr. Maydew has served as an editor of The Accounting Review, and on the editorial boards of Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and Review of Accounting Studies. He has published his research in the leading academic journals in his field, including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and others. He has consulted with leading firms on complex tax and accounting matters.

Professor Maydew has received awards for excellence in research and teaching, including the Distinguished Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association. He has won the American Taxation Association’s Outstanding Manuscript Award three times. He was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top professors at the University of North Carolina and prior to that, the University of Chicago. At UNC, he has been recognized as an MBA Teaching “All Star” more than ten times and received four Weatherspoon Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

Professor Maydew has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Iowa, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining UNC, Professor Maydew was on the faculty of the University of Chicago. He received his PhD from the University of Iowa and BBA from Iowa State University. Before earning his PhD, he was employed by a predecessor of PwC in its Chicago office.