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Pete Lisowsky

Visiting Professor

Areas of Expertise

Financial accounting, corporate and individual taxation and tax policy

Courses

Taxes and Business Strategy

Education

PhD, Questrom School of Business, Boston University, 2008; MAcc, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, 2002; BBA, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, 2001

Bio

Pete Lisowsky is a Visiting Professor at the Tuck School of Business, a Professor of Accounting at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University and an external research affiliate with the Norwegian Center for Taxation at the Norwegian School of Economics. 

Lisowsky has research interests in U.S. and international corporate tax policy; tax reporting, disclosure, and organizational form; and financial reporting choices of private companies. His research has been published in several leading accounting journals. Lisowsky has taught various tax and financial accounting courses at the undergraduate, graduate, executive education, and doctoral student levels. He was an academic consultant to the Internal Revenue Service during 2005–2021, and worked at the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Defense Department, and Deloitte Tax LLP. He served as President of the American Taxation Association in 2022–2023.

Lisowsky holds a BBA and Master of Accounting degrees, both from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from Boston University. He is a licensed CPA.