Joseph Gerakos is Bakala Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Innovation and Growth at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He earned his PhD in Accounting and MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and his AB from Dartmouth College. Before joining Tuck, he served as Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

His research examines markets for financial services, with a particular focus on audit market competition, audit production efficiency, and the performance of the asset management industry. He has published in leading journals such as Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. His work addresses policy-relevant issues including auditor market concentration, mandatory audit firm rotation, and the economic implications of audit regulation. Recent projects explore how audit production interacts with client accounting systems and internal controls, as well as the informational efficiency of going-concern opinions.

Joseph teaches Managerial Accounting and has served as an editor for The Accounting Review. He regularly contributes to policy discussions and academic conferences on audit quality and financial transparency. His research has been supported by grants from the Foundation for Auditing Research, the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, and the Fama-Miller Center, among others.