Baruch Lev is the Philip Bardes Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and the Director of both the Vincent C. Ross Institute for Accounting Research and the Project for Research on Intangibles. He is a permanent visitor at Ecole Nationale Des Ponts and Chaussees (Paris) and City University Business School (London). Lev earned his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. Served on the faculty of the University of Chicago, University of California-Berkeley (jointly at the business and law schools) and Tel Aviv University (where he was dean of the business school).