Ellen Engel

Ellen Engel has served on the Urban Gateways Board of Directors since 2002 and is currently the Immediate Past Chair. She has been a member of many Committees, including Executive and Finance, and currently serves on the Board Governance Committee. She is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and was previously on the faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She has published research on a variety of corporate governance topics, including executive incentives and board of director structures and is a co-author of Cases in Financial Reporting, a casebook for graduate studies in financial reporting courses, now in its 8th edition. Ellen earned her PhD in Accounting from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Prior to academia, Ellen was an audit manager and consultant with Plante Moran.

Experience

• College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Associate Professor of Accounting, Fall, 2016 to present
• Visiting Associate Professor of Accounting, Spring, 2016
• Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago
• Adjunct Professor of Accounting, 2007 to 2016, Associate Professor of Accounting, 2001-2007, Assistant Professor of Accounting, 1996-2001
• Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• Adjunct Associate Professor of Accounting Information and Management, 2015/2016 academic year

Classes Taught

• Accounting Cases, Research and Analysis
• Introduction to Financial Accounting
• Financial Reporting and Decision Making
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Corporate Valuation and Accounting Information

Research Interests

• Executive Incentives and Compensation, Corporate Governance

Education

• Ph. D. Stanford University Graduate School of Business (1991 — 1996)
• M.B.A. The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (1988 — 1991)
• B.S. - College of Business Administration; University of Detroit Mercy (1979 — 1983)

Companies

• Associate Professor University of Illinois at Chicago (2016)
• Faculty in Summer Business Scholars Program The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2015 — 2018)
• Adjunct Professor of Accounting University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2007 — 2016)
• Associate Professor of Accounting University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2002 — 2007)
• Assistant Professor of Accounting University of Chicago Booth School of Business (1996 — 2002)
• Ph.D Candidate, Research and Teaching Assistant Stanford University Graduate School of Business (1991 — 1996)
• Associate / CPA Plante & Moran (1983 — 1991)