Peter R. Gillett

A brief biography
am currently an Associate professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems of the Rutgers Business School - Newark & New Brunswick. I hold B.A. and M.A. degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Business from the University of Kansas, where I was the Ronald G. Harper Doctoral Fellow in the School of Business, and held the Ernst & Young Doctoral Fellowship in the Ernst & Young Center for Auditing Research and Advanced Technology (CARAT).
Prior to joining Kansas, I spent from 1975 to 1992 in professional practice as an auditor, EDP auditor, and management consultant. After nine years with Price Waterhouse in London, I joined Grant Thornton's National office as National Computer Audit Partner, and subsequently assumed roles as Partner in charge of Advanced Audit Techniques, and European Director of Audit Methods. I am a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a Member of the British Computer Society, a Member of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems, and a Fellow of the Institute of Management. In addition, I belong to the American Accounting Association, where I have been active in the Auditing and Artificial Intelligence/ Emerging Technologies sections, and to the American Statistical Association.
I have taught courses on Managerial Information Systems, Accounting Information Systems, Auditing, Advanced Auditing, Expert Systems, Internet Technologies and Electronic Business, Social Science Research Methods, and Current Topics in  Accounting Research. I am a member of the Editorial Board of several academic journals, including Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, in which I have also published. I have published in a number of other academic journals, including the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, and the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals in the U.K., I have contributed a chapter on audit judgment to a monograph on Auditing Practice, Research and Education published by the AICPA, and to a recent book on Belief Functions in Business Decisions.
My current research is studying the use of uncertain reasoning techniques in audit planning models. As part of this, the PURSUIVANT project developed software to enable alternative paradigms for uncertain reasoning to be used to model networks of interdependent audit objectives and audit evidence. In addition, under an NSF grant together with Professors Glenn Shafer and Rich Scherl, I have been studying the representation of causality in auditing using event spaces, and the foundations of subjective probability and lower and upper previsions. In addition, I am also working with former Ph.D. students on research involving Corporate Transparency, Evaluation of Audit Evidence from Fixed and Sequential Sampling, and Accountability, Reputation Costs and Opportunistic Auditor Behavior.
Until recently, I was the Academic Director of the Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers. I am the Faculty Secretary for the Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick. Outside the School of Business, I serve on the University Senate and on the Senate Executive Committee, and chair the University Structure and Governance Committee, and am the Faculty Advisor to the Rutgers University Glee Club and the Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir. I also sing with the Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir, as well as the Riverside Choral Society in Manhattan, and was inducted as an Honorary Member of the Rutgers University Glee Club in 2008. In April 2009, I won the Beta Alpha Psi Professor of the Year award, and in April 2011 the Rutgers Business Governing Association's Most Challenging Course and Best Accounting Information Systems Professor awards.

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Last Updated: 09/01/11
Dr. Peter R. Gillett