About
Bio
Dr Saipriya Kamath is an Associate Professor (Education) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she also serves as the Programme Director of the BSc in Accounting and Finance. She conducts research on use of AI in education, pensions, taxation, and corporate governance.
Dr. Kamath also provides research-driven consulting services to government organizations. She has advised the European Parliament on the role of tax intermediaries in tax evasion and consulted with India’s Ministry of Finance on initiatives to simplify the tax code and promote entrepreneurship through tax incentives.
Her research was instrumental in the establishment of the 'Cali Fund'—a unique multilateral fund that channels finance from private-sector users of generic data into biodiversity conservation.
She earned her PhD from the Indian School of Business in 2016.
Research Interests
- Auditing
- Information Intermediaries
- Impact of Regulation
- Innovation
- Behavioural Biases
- Risk Disclosures
Teaching
- AC102 - Elements of Financial Accounting
- AC105 - Introduction to Financial Accounting
- AC110 - Management Accounting and Data-Driven Decision Making
- Financial Analysis and Management Accounting (Executive Education)
- A Demotion in Disguise? The Real Effects of Relocating Pension Smoothing From Operating Income to Non-operating Income with Divya Anantharaman and Elizabeth Chuck
- The Tax Cut and Jobs Act (2017) as a Driver of Pension Derisking: A Comprehensive Examination with Divya Anantharaman and Shengnan Li
- Once Bitten Once Shy: Learning or Conservatism after large audit failures
- Do bank boards focus adequately on risk? with Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Samanvaya Agarwal and Prasanna Tantri
- Do voluntary disclosures aid innovation? with Krishnamurthy Subramanian