Bala G. Dharan

Dr. Dharan is the Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Visiting Professor and a senior lecturer at Harvard Law School, a research affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management, and the J. Howard Creekmore Professor Emeritus at Rice University. Internationally known for his research, he has published widely in major accounting and finance journals and has coauthored four textbooks on accounting, finance, and corporate governance topics. He is an award-winning teacher and public speaker and has provided invited testimony three times before the US Congress on accounting for complex transactions, standard-setting process, and energy reserves accounting.

Dr. Dharan is a Certified Public Accountant and holds ABV (Accredited in Business Valuation) and CFF (Certified in Financial Forensics) qualifications. He received a PhD and MS from Carnegie Mellon University; an MBA in finance from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and a B.Tech. in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.