Jarett B. Decker, Jacobs Chair of Excellence in Accounting and Professor of Practice, J.D., C.P.A. A former head of the World Bank’s Centre for Financial Reporting Reform in Vienna, Austria, Decker has advised governments and private sector institutions on reforms to improve corporate accounting, auditing, financial transparency, and governance in more than 30 developing and transitional countries, mostly in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. Jerry was the first person to serve as Deputy Director and Chief Trial Counsel for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the entity created by Congress to police corporate auditing in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals. Before his PCAOB service, Decker was Senior Trial Counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Chicago. He has published articles on law and finance in the New York Times, Reason magazine, The National Interest, Regulation Asia, the Cato Institute's Policy Analysis, and the website for the American Institute for Economic Research, among other venues. 

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• “How Russia Distorts Global Anti-Money Laundering Efforts.” The National Interest, 11 Dec. 2025 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/silk-road-rivalries/how-russia-distorts-global-anti-money-laundering-efforts
• “How Singapore is leading innovation in transparency for the knowledge economy.” Regulation Asia, 2 Nov. 2023 https://www.regulationasia.com/how-singapore-is-leading-innovation-in-transparency-for-the-knowledge-economy/
• “Lost in Transition: 30 years after the Soviet collapse, what happened to the Russian dream of a free economy?” Reason magazine, Dec. 2021 https://reason.com/2021/11/22/lost-in-transition-3/
• "Criminal Representation: Did Congress quietly make it a crime for lawyers to defend terror suspects?" Reason magazine, June 2004  https://reason.com/people/jarett-decker/
• “Defense Lawyers on Trial.” The New York Times, 30 June 1995 https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/30/opinion/defense-lawyers-on-trial.html

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• Institute of Management Accountants, Nashville Chapter, "The Princes and the Swiss Bank: A Money-Laundering Tale for Accountants." Finance Foward--A Deep Dive. Nov. 20, 2025.
• Waseda University, Department of Accounting, Tokyo, Japan, "Creative Corporate Accounting: When Does It Cross the Line?  Are There Telltale Signs?" May 15, 2025 (co-presenter)
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants Satellite Meeting, Murfreesboro, TN, "Assessing Sarbanes-Oxley: 20 years after creation of the PCAOB, are we facing another accounting bust?" Sept. 20, 2023
• 9th Int’l Conference, Journal of International Accounting Research, Panelist, “A Discussion on the Impact of Politics, Culture, and Global Institutions on Success of IFRS.” June 24, 2022 (virtual).
• International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators (IFIAR) Plenary Meeting, “Audit Regulation and Bank Fraud in Emerging Markets.” Ottawa, Canada, April 19, 2018
• United Nations-Geneva, UNCTAD-ISAR, “Recent Developments in Financial and Non-Financial Reporting.” Geneva, Switzerland, November 1, 2017
• ASEAN Audit Regulatory Group, “Enhancing Investor Confidence through Public Oversight.” Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 22, 2017
• Warsaw Stock Exchange, “The Effective Audit Committee.” Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 2015
• Keynote Speech, 7th Annual Fraud and Forensic Accounting Education Conference, “The Auditor’s Responsibility for Fraud.” Atlanta, GA, May 16, 2013

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