Edward Riedl

Eddie Riedl is an Associate Director at Boston University’s Institute for Global Sustainability. He is the director of the Impact Measurement & Allocation Program within the Questrom Institute for Business, Markets, and Society, the John F. Smith Jr. Professor of Accounting at the Questrom School of Business, and former chair of the accounting department. He previously was on faculty at the Harvard Business School for nine years. Riedl received a combined BBA/MBA at Pace University in New York City, and his PhD in accounting from Penn State University. Prior to academia, he worked at a Big 4 accounting firm in litigation support, at a Fortune 250 oil company in internal audit, and at a leading real estate brokerage house in corporate reporting, attaining the professional designations of CPA, CMA, and CIA.

Riedl is an award-winning and widely cited researcher, having published over 25 academic papers on three broad mega-trends in financial reporting: fair value accounting; global financial reporting; and business sustainability (or ESG) reporting and regulation. He has been an editor at both The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research, two leading academic research journals. He has conducted over 100 presentations at universities around the world, including Chicago, Stanford, Yale, LBS, and Hong Kong. He is an award-winning teacher, having taught classes at the undergraduate, MBA, executive, and doctoral levels. He also has taught a wide range of executive education programs, including Fortune 500 corporations such as BP, Ericsson, IBM, and TE Connectivity. His published cases on financial reporting and valuation issues have sold over 100,000 copies, including those based in the real estate, financial services, agriculture, chemical, restaurant, and incarceration industries. His passions are his family, otters, and the New York Mets.