UNM Accounting Professor Richard G. Brody Elected to ACFE Board of Regents

The Asso­ci­a­tion of Cer­ti­fied Fraud Exam­in­ers (ACFE), the world’s largest anti-fraud orga­ni­za­tion and pre­mier provider of anti-fraud train­ing and edu­ca­tion, has announced the elec­tion of Richard G. Brody to the ACFE Board of Regents.

Brody is the Dou­glas Minge Brown Pro­fes­sor of Account­ing at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico and a Daniels Fund Busi­ness Ethics Fel­low. He is a pro­lific author and an expert on fraud, and was hon­ored as the ACFE’s 2012 Edu­ca­tor of the Year.

Brody and another newly elected regent, Bruce G. Dubin­sky, will began their two-year terms at the board’s Feb. 19–20, 2013 meet­ing at the ACFE head­quar­ters in Austin, Texas.

Elected by Cer­ti­fied Fraud Exam­in­ers (CFEs) world­wide, mem­bers of the ACFE Board of Regents are respon­si­ble for set­ting mem­ber­ship stan­dards that pro­mote pro­fes­sion­al­ism and ensure the future of fraud exam­i­na­tion as a whole. They have author­ity over the admis­sion of mem­bers, con­tin­u­ing pro­fes­sional edu­ca­tion and ethics require­ments, and all other mat­ters nec­es­sary to main­tain the high stan­dards of the ACFE.

Brody earned his doc­tor­ate in account­ing from Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity and pre­vi­ously worked as a staff audi­tor for Deloitte Hask­ins + Sells as a cost ana­lyst for Hewlett Packard and as a senior finan­cial report­ing ana­lyst for Tan­dem Computers.

Brody has authored or co-authored more than 80 ref­er­eed pub­li­ca­tions and has made more than 100 pre­sen­ta­tions at national and inter­na­tional con­fer­ences and sem­i­nars. He served on a panel, “It may be legal, but is it eth­i­cal?” at the 23rd Annual ACFE Fraud Con­fer­ence & Exhi­bi­tion, and has been on the edi­to­r­ial advi­sory com­mit­tee for Fraud Mag­a­zine since 2007.

Brody serves as an expert wit­ness and has expe­ri­ence in both civil and crim­i­nal cases. He has worked with the U.S. Secret Ser­vice, the U.S. Depart­ment of Jus­tice, the New Mex­ico Attor­ney General’s Office and the Sec­ond Judi­cial Dis­trict Attorney’s Office in New Mexico.

The ACFE is the world’s largest anti-fraud orga­ni­za­tion and pre­mier provider of anti-fraud train­ing and edu­ca­tion. Together with nearly 65,000 mem­bers, the ACFE is reduc­ing busi­ness fraud world­wide and inspir­ing pub­lic con­fi­dence in the integrity and objec­tiv­ity within the pro­fes­sion. For more infor­ma­tion, visit: ACFE.

Media Con­tact: Leslie Ven­zuela (505) 277‑7117; email: venzuela@mgt.unm.edu