Elizabeth Blankespoor is a Professor of Accounting and Marguerite Reimers Endowed Faculty Fellow at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. Professor Blankespoor’s research focuses on corporate disclosure in capital markets, and especially on the role of information processing costs and information technology in the flow of firms’ financial information. She has published in top accounting peer reviewed journals, including JAE, JAR, TAR, and RAST, and her work has received several awards. She is currently an editor at JAE and was an editor at TAR and RAST in prior years. Before joining UW Foster, she served on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She has won several awards for her teaching including the UW Foster Full-Time MBA Professor of the Year, Evening MBA Core Professor of the Year, Dean’s Excellence Award for Graduate Teaching, Stanford MSx Teaching Excellence Award, and Stanford MBA Distinguished Teaching Award. She holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, a MAcc from the University of Utah, and a B.A. from Dordt University.