Roopa Venkatesh is the Director of the School of Accounting at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and the Union Pacific Professor of Accounting at the UNO. She is the recipient of the 2024 IMA Exemplary Global Board Member Award, the 2020 IMA R. Lee Brummet Award, the 2020 IMA Champion Award, and the IMA Faculty Leadership Award in 2017. She is a member of the Performance Oversight and Audit Standing Board Committee, having previously served as chair of the Volunteer Leadership Committee. She is the chair-emeritus of the Committee on Academic Relations (CAR) and a founding board member of the IMA Platte Valley Chapter, Nebraska.

Roopa’s teaching and research interests are in the area of managerial accounting. Her research has been published in The Journal of Management Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, Journal of Theoretical Accounting Research, IMA Educational Case Journal, Strategic Finance, IMA Statements of Management Accounting, and Ethics & Behavior.