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Laurence van Lent is the Founding Chair of the Research Group Accounting and of Tilburg University's Ph.D. program in Accounting. He teaches and conducts research in management and financial accounting.

Professor Van Lent's research interests include (1) organizational design and performance management and (2) accounting standards, corporate disclosure policy, and governance. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Abacus, European Accounting Review, Management Accounting Research, and British Accounting Review.

He serves as an Associate Editor for European Accounting Review and is on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Accounting Research, International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation, and BuR Business Research - the open access journal of the German Association of University Professors of Management (VHB). He was Joint Guest Editor (with James Ohlson) of a special issue of European Accounting Review on Conservatism in Accounting (2006, vol. 15, no. 4).

Professor van Lent was the chair of the CentER Research Group in Accounting between 2000 and 2008. During his tenure, the group earned international acclaim for its research output and its Ph.D. program. The 2001-2009 Research Assessment Exercise executed by the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) assigned the group the highest score of all accounting programs in the Netherlands.

Laurence van Lent obtained a Master's degree in Economics from the Radboud University Nijmegen (cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Tilburg University (1999). He was a visiting scholar at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester (1996-1998) and a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne (2004).

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