Associate Dean of Professional Education Pathways and Professor of Accountancy and Arthur Andersen Faculty Fellow
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Gies College of Business at the University of IllinoisGary Hecht is an Associate Professor of Accountancy and the Arthur Andersen Faculty Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has been a faculty member since 2013. He has held several leadership roles, including Academic Director of the iMSA Program and Executive Director of Lifelong Learning. Before joining Illinois, he was an assistant professor at Emory University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hecht earned a BS in Accountancy from Illinois State University in 1995 and a PhD in Accountancy from the University of Illinois in 2005. His research interests include managerial accounting and performance measurement, and he has received multiple accolades for teaching excellence throughout his career.