Nan Zhou is a professor and head of the Accounting Department at the University of Cincinnati. He holds the Norwood and Marjorie Geis Chair of Accounting. Professor Zhou helped relaunch the Accounting Ph.D. Program in 2019. His research on auditing, financial reporting, and corporate governance has been published in leading accounting journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Review of Accounting Studies. He led the University of Cincinnati Accounting Department to successfully organize and host the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance ESG Symposium in October 2024. He currently serves as a co-editor of Asian Review of Accounting, an editor of China Accounting and Finance Review, and an associate editor of Journal of International Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation. Professor Zhou obtained his bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, MBA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and PhD in accounting from the University of Minnesota. He received the Lindner Research Excellence Award from the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati and the Corning Award for Excellence in Research from the School of Management at the State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton University.