Giorgio Gotti is the Director of the School of Accountancy and Professor at the Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He received his PhD in Business Administration and his Master of Accountancy from the University of Tennessee and a Laurea in Economics from Bocconi University, Italy. He is a Chartered Accountant and Statutory Auditor in Milan, Italy.

Professor Gotti's research and teaching interests are in international and financial accounting. His papers have been published in the International Journal of Accounting; Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance; Journal of International Accounting Research; Management International Review; Journal of Business Ethics; Research in Accounting Regulation; Journal of Management and Governance; Management Decision; and Review of Accounting and Finance. He has taught international accounting to graduate students at various universities in Italy, Brazil, and the United States.

Professor Gotti is Director focusing on International in the Board of Directors of the American Accounting Association, and past president of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Accounting and Associate Editor of the Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation. He has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association Annual Congress since 2016. He served as Associate Editor of the Journal of International Accounting Research in 2014-2017 and is now a member of the Editorial Board.