Dr. Reeb holds the Mr. and Mrs. Lin Jo Yan Professorship, with appointments in both accounting and finance. He serves as a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), a Fellow at the Academy of International Business (AIB), as the Director of Business Doctoral Programs in NUS Business School, and Head of Department, Accounting.

Dr. Reeb’s research interests range from founding-family ownership to the disclosure of corporate innovation, spanning the organisation of accounting firms to shadow insider trading. His work has appeared in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, American Economic Review, Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of International Business Studies. His body of research has generated over 5,000 citations in other academic works, according to Web of Science (Google Scholar 17,000+). In addition, his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Inc. Magazine, SmartMoney, MSNBC, and several other leading publications in the US, Canada, and Australia. He has also been interviewed by CNN, Comcast and Bloomberg TV.

Dr. Reeb has been consistently recognised for his academic contributions. His 2003 study on founding-family firms is one of the 20 most cited articles in the Journal of Finance of all time. Similarly, his research on accounting report integrity is the most highly cited paper in the Journal of Accounting and Economics in 2004. More recently, his research on “Missing R&D” in the Journal of Accounting and Economics is the 5th most cited paper among the top 3 journals in accounting in 2015.