Trevor Harris

Trevor S. Harris is the Arthur J. Samberg Professor Emeritus of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business, Columbia Business School:

His research and practical experience has covered most areas of the use of accounting information for valuation, investment and management decisions, with a particular focus on global aspects and financial institutions. He is a CA (SA) and FCA who practiced auditing in South Africa. He originally joined the Columbia Business School faculty in 1983, and was the Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business, Director of the Chazen Institute of International Business and

Chair of the Accounting Department prior to joining Morgan Stanley as a Managing Director and

Head of the Global Valuation and Accounting Team in 2000. He rejoined the faculty of Columbia

Business School in July 2008 and was appointed as The Arthur J. Samberg Professor of

Professional Practice. He was co-Director of Columbia's Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis, which he founded. He has published widely on valuation and accounting issues, in both academic and practitioner journals. Through September 2008, Professor Harris was a Managing Director and Vice Chairman at Morgan Stanley, and he led the creation and initial development of Morgan Stanley's ModelWare project and its Risk-Reward valuation application, that has become common practice in sell side research across Wall Street. He wrote extensively on earnings quality, company-specific investment ideas and global pension and retiree benefit issues. In 2002 he was named to Institutional Investor’s All American Research Team and in 2003 to Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney Power 30 (the most influential people on Wall Street). He was a member of the Investors’ Advisory Committee and of the Users' Advisory Council to the Financial Accounting Standards Board. He has also served on the Office of Financial Research’s Research Advisory Committee, on the Standards Advisory Council to the International Accounting Standards Board and was a member of the International Capital Markets Advisory Committee at the New York Stock Exchange. He has served on several boards and consulted to many corporations.