Prof. Dr. Dirk Stauder

Dirk Stauder is Professor for Accounting at Munich Business School. He teaches, does research, and consults in the field of accounting and finance. Besides covering the traditional topics, he is focusing on digital innovations in the field (i.e., decentralization, AI and embedded applications in accounting and finance) and connects accounting and finance topics interdisciplinary with other areas in business and economics.

Dirk Stauder earned his doctoral degree (Dr. oeconomiae publicae, summa cum laude, Munich Research Price in Auditing (by Deloitte)) at the Institute for Accounting, Auditing and Analysis (Prof. Dr. Thorsten Sellhorn) at LMU Munich, where he also completed a Master of Business Research, as well as a Bachelor and Master of Science in Business Administration (the latter partly at EM Lyon Business School, France). Beyond teaching and researching at LMU Munich, Dirk Stauder has held various academic lecturing positions, including roles at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences and the International School of Management (ISM).

Beyond academia, Dirk Stauder gained experience in business practice as own entrepreneur, incubation and venturing advisor, working in the capital market industry and in different business projects. He has co-founded the Blockchain Startup Secublox and the HR Tech Platform Zeitsilber, served as Vice President in Business Development at Assenagon Asset Management, as Incubation and Venturing Advisor for Startups at founders@unibw and has been involved in financial reporting projects and workshops for large corporations such as Linde, Bayer and Volkswagen.

In his research, Dirk Stauder focuses on the role of innovation, new technologies & economic consequences of accounting & finance information. In current projects, he analyzes how new technologies (especially Blockchain and AI) change the field of accounting and finance, shape regulation and influence capital markets as well as (macro-)economic outcomes. He also likes to work on interdisciplinary research (e.g. by bringing insights and methods from entrepreneurial or economic research together with finance and accounting).