Jeffrey Hales is a professor of accounting and teaches in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Bake Chair in Global Sustainability Leadership, is the Charles T. Zlatkovich Centennial Professor of Accounting, and serves as the executive director of the Global Sustainability Leadership Institute.

His research interests center on accounting standard-setting and regulation, individual decision-making, and behavioral finance, using techniques from applied game theory, experimental economics, and psychology. His research has appeared in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Financial Economics, among others. He has served in editorial capacities at several journals, including terms at Contemporary Accounting Research and Accounting Horizons.

Since July 2022, he has served on the International Sustainability Standards Board. From 2012 to 2022, he served in various leadership capacities at the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), including as chair of the SASB Standards Board. During 2009-10, he was a research fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in Connecticut and served as a member of the FASB’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council from 2016-2019.

He is a graduate of the accounting program at Brigham Young University and received his Ph.D. from Cornell University.