Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder joined the Koerner Center fellowship on July 1, 2021, after twenty-two years as James L. Frank Professor of Management and Economics at Yale School of Management. Educated as an engineer in India, Shyam worked for the Indian Railways before his graduate work at Carnegie Mellon University (1970–73), and teaching at the University of Chicago (1973–83), University of Minnesota (1983–88), and Carnegie Mellon University (1988–99). His work has focused on structural rationality of social institutions, financial reporting, experimental finance, and experimental macroeconomics. He has published eleven books and over two hundred scholarly articles, received many honors and awards, and served as elected president of the American Accounting Association (2006–2007).