Dr. Kavasseri V. Ramanathan, Professor and Chairman, Department of Accounting, University of Washington Business School, is an internationally recognized expert in the application of accounting and financial techniques for shareholder value based organizational planning and control. A regular consultant to business, he has conducted a variety of executive seminars and in-company management development programs over the past three decades in the United States and abroad.  

Dr. Ramanathan is also the founder and past chairman of the University of Washington's Executive MBA Program, and has taught at Harvard Business School, Northwestern University, New York University, and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. As an invited speaker, he has lectured in seminars organized by leading academic and professional institutions in the United States, Canada, Europe including Russia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.  

In 1992, Professor Ramanathan was honored as the inaugural Arthur Andersen Visiting Professor to the University of Auckland in recognition of the influence of his ideas on the New Zealand public sector management process. In late 1990s, he served the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants as a member of its Task Force on the Role of Non financial Measures of Performance.  

Professor Ramanathan's leadership contributions include the development of the University of Washington's highly successful Executive MBA program. Recently, as Director of Russian Programs, he led the UW School of Business initiatives to collaborate with Russian institutions to strengthen their managerial training programs. Earlier, he co-developed a management program in the UW School of Social Work. In the early 1960s, he was part of the lead faculty team that organized the MBA curriculum at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Harvard Business School.  

Professor Ramanathan earned his MBA and PhD degrees from the Northwestern University. He has published in the leading journals in his field in the United States, Canada, Japan, India, and the United Kingdom. His major publications include Accounting for Managerial Decision Making and Management Control in Nonprofit Organizations, both published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.