Bio

Dr. Jennifer Blouin has served as the Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Accounting at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania since July 2020. Dr. Blouin is an expert on the role of taxation in firm decision making. Her research examines the effect of taxes on asset pricing, capital structure, corporate payout behavior, multinational firm behavior, and mergers and acquisitions. Dr. Blouin has provided expert testimony in tax shelter litigation on behalf of the US Department of Justice, and in pharmaceutical patent litigation regarding transfer pricing and the repatriation of earnings by multinational corporations and their affiliates. Dr. Blouin has presented her work at over 75 universities and at numerous association conferences. Dr. Blouin is an editor of the Review of Accounting Studies and an associate editor of the Journal of Accounting Research. Dr. Blouin teaches taxation to undergraduate, M.B.A., and Ph.D. students and is a recipient of the University of Pennsylvania's Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and Wharton Teaching Excellence Award. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Blouin was a tax manager with Arthur Andersen. She received her Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill and her B.S. from Indiana University-Bloomington. Dr. Blouin is a nominee to our board of directors at our annual meeting on May 24, 2023.