Philip Berger

Wallman Family Professor of Accounting, The University of Chicago

Phil Berger served on the faculty of the Wharton School from 1991 – 2002 (including as a tenured Associate Professor from 1998 – 2002) before joining Booth as a tenured Full Professor on July 1, 2002. His research focuses on financial reporting, managerial accounting, and corporate finance. He has published in all the top peer reviewed accounting and finance journals, and was a senior editor of Journal of Accounting Research for 23 years, through June, 2026. Berger has chaired or served on the dissertation committees of many top accounting students from Booth who currently work at such top schools as MIT, Wharton, Stanford, Columbia, Yale, NYU, Ohio State, Washington University, and UCSD, and was awarded the 2025 FARS Distinguished PhD Mentoring Award. He served a three-year term as Deputy Dean for Booth’s part-time MBA programs (evening, weekend, and EMBA), and served five years as the Director of Booth’s Chookaszian Accounting Research Center.