Graeme Rankine

A native of Surfers Paradise, Australia, Graeme Rankine is associate professor of accounting and academic director of the SABIC Executive MBA (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Program at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He has been academic director of the LG Electronics Executive MBA (Seoul, South Korea), the EMBA-Europe (Prague, Czech Republic) Program, and the EMBA-Asia (Taipei, Taiwan) Program.

Prior to joining Thunderbird, he taught at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he received several teacher recognition awards including the Student Association Mentor Recognition Award, the Amoco Teaching Award, the Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize. At Thunderbird, he was the EMBA Outstanding Professor of the Year in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 and the Outstanding MBA Professor in 2010.

Graeme has been academic director of Thunderbird’s Strategic Finance and Accounting for Oil and Gas Leaders program. He has taught executive education programs in the energy sector including those for ARCO (China), British Petroleum (U.S.), CEZ (Czech Republic), ExxonMobil (Europe, Asia, U.S.), MOL Group (Hungary), National Oil Company of Libya, and Unocal (U.S.). He also has taught a variety of programs in Central and Eastern Europe including those for Danone (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland), DHL (Czech Republic), Kraft (Czech Republic), and T-Mobile (Czech Republic, Slovakia).

His research is published in leading journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy, Journal of Accounting and Finance Research, and Issues in Accounting Education. His co-authored research on corporate name changes was discussed in The Wall Street Journal. His co-authored research on stock splits is the subject of numerous columns including those in The Wall Street Journal, Individual Investor, U.S. News & World Report, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Forbes and Business Week.

Education

• Ph.D University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business (1981 — 1986)
• B.Ec (Hons) The Australian National University (1971 — 1974)

Companies

• Professor of Accounting & Academic Director, Sabic-Executive MBA (Riyadh, KSA) Thunderbird School of Global Management (1995)
• Affiliate Professor of Finance Modul University Vienna (2013 — 2020)
• Affiliate Professor of Accounting, German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS) (2006 — 2020)
• Visiting Professor Of Finance WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) (2006 — 2018)
• Assistant Professor of Accounting Rice University (1990 — 1995)