Defond, Mark

Professor
Leventhal School of Accounting
213-740-5016
defond@usc.edu

Professor DeFond is the Joseph A. DeBell Professor of Business Administration at the Marshall School of Business and Professor in the Leventhal School of Accounting. His current research interests include auditing, corporate governance and international accounting. Professor DeFond's research is widely published in journals that include the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory.

He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Accounting and Finance, the Journal of International Accounting Research, and the Contemporary Journal of Accounting and Economics.

Professor DeFond is a recipient of the Notable Contribution to Auditing Literature Award from the Auditing Section of the AAA, and his research on auditor independence is cited in the Congressional Record during the debates leading up to passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. He is a four time winner of the MBA Golden Apple Teaching Award, and has been ranked by BusinessWeek three times among the Ten Most Outstanding MBA faculty at Marshall. Professor DeFond is also a recipient of USC's Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring Faculty and the Marshall School's Dean's Educator of the Year Award.

Professor DeFond has taught various executive education programs and courses to audiences that include employees of Abbot Labs, Amgen, Anhauser Busch, Daimler-Benz, General Motors-Hughes Electronics, Glaxo Wellcome, MCI, Nissan, Northrop-Grumman, Texas Instruments and Weyerhaeuser, among others.

Education:
Ph.D. (Business Administration), University of Washington, 1987
B.A., San Francisco State University, Magna Cum Laude, 1978