Outreach

UNO Accounting Speakers Series events

UNO's School of Accounting brings together community professionals, students, and faculty at its annual UNO Accounting Speakers Series each September.

Year	Keynote Speaker	Ethics Speaker
2025	Mike Willis Associate Director, Office of Data Science and Innovation, Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)	Dr. Ivy Munoko Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, Warrington College of Business
2024	Larry Bradley Global Head of Audit, KPMG	Chuck Gallagher Business Ethics Expert, AI Keynote Speaker, Consultant, and Author
2023	Carla McCall Board of Directors of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Vice Chair	Laurie C. Endsley International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA), Vice Chair
2022	Nigel J. James Senior Associate Chief Accountant, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission	Conrad L. Satzgaber Chief Audit and Ethics Officer, Nebraska Public Power District
2021	Colleen Conrad, CPA Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, NASBA	Cynthia Cooper Chief Executive Officer, The CooperGroup, LLC
2020	Ginger White, CMA, CSCA, MBA IMA Global Board of Directors Immediate Emeritus-Chair	Nathan Mueller Integrative Ethics, LLC ING Fraudster
2019	Peter Margaritis, CPA, CSP "The Accidental Accountant" Professional Speaker and Author	Kelly Richmond Pope, Ph.D., CPA Associate Professor and Forensic Accounting Expert
2018	Sandra Peters Head of Global Financial Reporting Advocacy, CFA Institute	Anthony Menendez Forensic Litigation Consultants and Halliburton Whistleblower
2017	Joe Brusuelas Chief Economist, RSM US LLP	Mark Cheffers Ethics Speaker and CEO and Founder of Audit Analytics
2016	Kristen Sullivan Risk and Financial Advisory Partner and sustainability expert, Deloitte & Touche LLP	Richard Bowen Ethical Leadership Speaker, Accounting Professor, and former Citigroup Chief Underwriter
2015	John Wilenski Predictive analytics expert and Executive Vice President of Finance, EFA, LLC	Mauri Myers Senior Director of Global Ethics, WalMart
2014	Larry Bradley Global Head of Audit, KPMG	Helen Sharkey Ethics Speaker and former Dynegy accountant
2013	R. Harold Schroeder Member, Financial Accounting Standards Board	James Brackens, Jr. Vice President of Ethics and Practice Quality, AICPA
2012	Jay D. Hanson Member, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board	Weston Smith Ethics Speaker and former CFO of Healthsouth Corp.