Caren Sureth-Sloane appointed Part-Time Professor at WU

As of October 2026, Prof. Dr. DDr. h.c. Caren Sureth-Sloane has been appointed Part-Time Professor of Accounting at WU Vienna. The appointment continues a long-standing connection: since 2010, she has been affiliated with WU as a Visiting Professor and as a Principal Investigator in the FWF Doctoral Program International Business Taxation (DIBT). Since 2004, she has held the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Business Taxation, at Paderborn University.

Her research focuses on the economic analysis of regulation in taxation. Using analytical and empirical methods, she studies how regulatory uncertainty, tax complexity and bureaucratic costs affect business decisions such as investment, risk-taking, innovation and compliance. Her work on measuring tax complexity has been taken up by the finance ministries of several countries and by the European Commission, and has received wide attention in international media.

Caren Sureth-Sloane is Vice President of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and Speaker of the DFG Collaborative Research Center TRR 266 "Accounting for Transparency". She is also Vice President of the Schmalenbach Society for Business Administration and a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. In recognition of her contributions to research and scholarship, the University of Graz and the University of Bremen awarded her honorary doctorates.

We are delighted to continue and deepen this collaboration and warmly welcome Caren Sureth-Sloane in her new role.