Douglas J. Cumming
Professor Douglas J. Cumming, J.D., Ph.D., CFA, is an internationally recognized scholar in corporate and entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, private equity, financial market misconduct and regulation, and corporate governance. He is Professor of Finance and the Steven Shulman ’62 Endowed Chair for Digital Innovation at the Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business. His distinguished academic career includes previous appointments as the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University and as Professor and Ontario Research Chair at the Schulich School of Business, York University, as well as numerous visiting appointments at universities around the world.He has published more than 260 articles in leading academic journals, including 51 papers in Financial Times Top 50 journals, and has published 23 academic books. In 2022, Clarivate recognized him as one of the world’s 92 most cited researchers in the Business and Economics category. Douglas' work has been cited over 36,000 times. In addition to his academic contributions, he has served as an expert witness in numerous litigation cases involving financial accounting fraud, tax evasion, market manipulation, investment fund misconduct, mergers and acquisitions, business valuation, and other complex financial matters.
With extensive editorial experience, Professor Cumming currently serves as Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Corporate Finance and the Journal of Alternative Investments. His editorial engagements also include Associate Editor positions at several academic journals and membership on the editorial boards of numerous others. He is also a regular speaker at international academic and industry conferences, and his work has been reviewed in major media outlets, including The Economist, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
David P. Weber
Dr. David P. Weber is an internationally recognized authority on corporate governance, fraud prevention, and forensic accounting. He works at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University and has three decades of experience across regulatory enforcement, financial investigations, accounting, and law. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research.Over the course of his distinguished career, Dr. Weber served as Chief Investigator of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as Chief of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Enforcement Unit I. Alongside his teaching and research, Dr. Weber maintains an active practice as an expert witness, consultant, and trusted advisor to corporate boards and senior executives. In recognition of his outstanding contributions, he was named Certified Fraud Examiner of the Year for 2024–2025 by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He also served as the banking expert for the Panama Papers Investigation, a project that received the Pulitzer Prize in 2017.
Dr. Weber is currently preparing several studies for a special topic edition of the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research devoted to the use of court data in forensic accounting. These studies examine court-data research, demographic predictors of embezzlement, fraud theories in the context of white-collar crime, and the non-financial harm experienced by victims of such crimes.
