Shyam Sunder (economist)

Sunder has served in numerous leadership roles at noteworthy academic organizations. From 2006 to 2007, he was President of the American Accounting Association. Before that, he was the American Accounting Association's Director of Research from 1988 to 1990. He has also served as Chair of Faculty Organization for the Faculty Senate at Carnegie Mellon University and was a member of the Founding Executive Committee for the Economic Science Association.

Sunder has been invited to speak at over 300 universities all over the world. He was named a Distinguished Lecturer at the Center for Computational Finance and Economic Agents at the University of Essex in the UK. The American Accounting Association honored him as its Presidential Research Lecturer in 1999 and named him a Distinguished International Visiting Lecturer in 2000.

In partnership with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Accounting Association also selected him to receive the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award in 1982 and 1998. In 1982, Sunder was selected for the Alpha Kappa Psi Foundation National Accounting Award.

Sunder has received many awards for his contributions to accounting research. The American Accounting Association has recognized his research with their Manuscript Award in 1975 and the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 2013.

Before moving to the United States, Sunder was educated at IIT Kharagpur, Indian Railways School of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering at Jamalpur. Subsequently he received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1974. Before coming to Yale University, he served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, IIM Ahmedabad, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Minnesota, and Carnegie Mellon University.

Shyam Sunder (born July 10, 1944) is an accounting theorist and experimental economist. He is the James L. Frank Professor of accounting, economics, and finance at the Yale School of Management; a professor in Yale University’s Department of Economics; and a Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center.