Prof. Caren Sureth-Sloane is Professor of Business Administration, especially Business Taxation at Paderborn University and is the spokesperson of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency. She studies the effects of taxation on corporate decisions, especially on the impact of taxes on risky investments, as well as on international business taxation and tax complexity.

She studied economics, English, French and Chinese at the University of Passau. Since 1994, she has worked as an academic assistant at the University of Bielefeld, where she received her doctor’s degree in 1999 and habilitated in 2003. From 2002 until 2004, she took over the Chair of Business Administration, especially Corporate Accounting/Taxation, at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at the University of Paderborn. Since 2004, she has been holding the Chair of Business Administration, especially Business Taxation. She received offers for the University of Graz, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Goethe University of Frankfurt, and the University of Cologne.

Since 2010, she has been Guest Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and Principal Investigator of the FWF Doctoral Program in International Business Taxation (DIBT). She is a founding member of arqus, working group quantitative business taxation, as well as a member of the working group “taxes” and “transfer prices” of the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft, of which she has been a member of the executive board since 2011 and vice president since 2019. In 2013 Caren Sureth-Sloane was appointed a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. She is the spokesperson for the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center TRR 266: Accounting for Transparency and has been a member of the DFG-Senate since 2021. She received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Graz in 2021 and an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics at the University of Bremen in 2022.

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