Prof Named New Kenan-Flagler Dean

‘DOUG BECAME THE CLEAR CHOICE’

“I had the opportunity to meet with the very talented candidates for this important role at UNC,” Folt said. in a statement. “Ultimately, Doug became the clear choice to lead UNC Kenan-Flagler and ensure its continued success.

“Doug is uniquely qualified to serve as the next dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler,” Dean said in a statement. “He is a seasoned academic leader and an internationally recognized scholar and business educator. He loves the University and is a passionately engaged member of the UNC Kenan-Flagler community.”

A JOURNEY FROM RURAL NORTH CAROLINA TO CHAPEL HILL THAT CHANGED A LIFE

A UNC alumnus and North Carolina native, Shackelford has served on the UNC faculty since 1990. He is an award-winning researcher and teacher whose work focuses on taxes and business strategy. “There is no greater honor than to guide this great business school, where faculty, staff and alumni care deeply about preparing our students – the next generation of leaders – and serving our alumni and other members of the business community through our research and outreach,” said Doug Shackelford.

“When I made the journey from rural North Carolina to Chapel Hill to attend college, I knew I was on the road to a better life, but I couldn’t know then how truly powerful education can be,” Shackelford said. “My Carolina education transformed my life, and I’m deeply committed to making sure that students in North Carolina and around the world receive the same kind of benefit so they can build better lives and contribute to their organizations and their communities.”

Doug Shackelford has served as associate dean of MBA@UNC, the innovative online MBA program, since 2010. He was senior associate dean for academic affairs from 2003-2007, and associate dean of the Master of Accounting (MAC) Program from 1998-2002. He is director of the UNC Tax Center, which he founded in 2001.

After he graduated from UNC with a B.S. in business in 1980, he worked as a senior tax consultant for Arthur Andersen & Co. in Boston and Greensboro, N.C., from 1981-1985. Shackelford then earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and joined the UNC faculty. He is a research associate in public economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He has held visiting faculty positions at Stanford University, Universiteit Maastricht in the Netherlands and Oxford University.

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