UConn Establishes Endowed Accounting Professorship with KPMG

STORRS, CT — The University of Connecticut School of Business has announced the creation of a new endowed accounting professorship, supported through a collaboration with KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax, and advisory firm, to help "attract and retain high-performing educators in UConn's Accounting Department."

UConn officials and executives from KPMG gathered at the School of Business Graduate Business Learning Center in Hartford to make the announcement Wednesday evening.

"The KPMG Professorship is an honor that will be bestowed on some of the most highly regarded accounting faculty and is intended to strengthen UConn's ability to attract and retain leading educators in the field," school officials said.

Professor George Plesko, head of the Accounting Department, will be the first recipient of the KPMG Professorship. Plesko's expertise focuses on corporate tax policy, business taxation, and the relationship between financial and tax reporting. He joined UConn 21 years ago after teaching at MIT and serving in the U.S. Treasury.

His work has been published in top accounting and economic journals, and he has testified before Congress and served as an advisor to the IRS and Congressional Budget Office.

Plesko has received the American Accounting Association’s Wildman Medal (2005), one of the profession’s highest honors, as well as the 2022 Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award and the 2025 UConn Distinguished Faculty Research Award.