Prof. Dr. Christoph Sextroh
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Christoph Sextroh has held the Professorship for Accounting & Corporate Governance at the University of Oldenburg since 2024 and is Adjunct Professor at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management. He is an expert on the modern information environment of companies and is particularly concerned with questions of corporate transparency and capital market communication, the dissemination and processing of financial and non-financial information by different stakeholders, as well as the effects of financial technology and social media. His research has been published in renowned international journals such as the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting and the Journal of Empirical Finance. He is an editorial board member and reviewer for various academic journals and has won several research and teaching awards.
Sextroh completed his doctorate in accounting at the Centre for Doctoral Studies in Business (CDSB) of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim. He has been a visiting researcher at the London Business School, at the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, and at the University of Washington, Foster School of Business.
Vita
| since 2024 | Professor of Accounting & Corporate Governance at the University of Oldenburg |
| 2023 | Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Washington, Foster School of Business |
| 2021 - 2024 | Associate Professor of Accounting (tenured/indefinite) at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management at Tilburg University (Netherlands) |
| 2016 - 2020 | Assistant Professor of Accounting (tenure-track) at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management of Tilburg University (Netherlands) |
| 2015 | Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business |
| 2014 | Doctorate (Dr rer. pol.) at the University of Mannheim (overall grade: "summa cum laude") |
| 2011 | Visiting Ph.D. student at the London Business School |
| 2010 - 2014 | Research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Management Accounting, in particular Corporate Accounting and Empirical Capital Market Research (Prof. Dr Holger Daske) at the University of Mannheim |
| 2009 - 2020 | Lecturer for financial statement analysis in the degree programme "Mannheim Master in Accounting and Taxation" at Mannheim Business School |
| 2008 - 2010 | Doctoral studies at the Centre for Doctoral Studies in Business (CDSB) of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim |
| 2007 | Semester abroad at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) |
| 2004 - 2008 | Studied Business Administration at the University of Duisburg-Essen, specialising in Accounting, Financing & Banking and Business Taxation (Diplom-Kaufmann) |
Awards and honours
- Excellent Teacher Award, Tilburg University, 2023
- Nominated for the VHB Best Paper Award 2022, Verband der Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.
- Excellence in Reviewing Award, AAA Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) 2021 Midyear meeting
- Best Reviewer Award, Journal of Business Economics, 2018
- Excellent Teacher Award, Tilburg University, 2018
- Excellent Teacher Award, Tilburg University, 2017
- Best Conference Paper Award for the paper "Why Do Politicians Intervene in Accounting Re- gulation? The Role of Ideology and Special Interests" (together with Jannis Bischof and Holger Daske), Verband der Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V., Annual Conference 2016
- Dissertation prize from the Karin Islinger Foundation, 2015
- Dissertation prize from the Ernst & Young Foundation, 2015
- Bronnbach Scholarship of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V. (2009 - 2010)
- Duisburger National-Bank-Preis 2009, prize for the best Diplom thesis
- DFG scholarship as part of the doctoral programme at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Business (CDSB) at the University of Mannheim (2008 - 2009)
- Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation