Grant Richardson is currently Professor of Accounting in the Accounting and Corporate Governance Department at Macquarie University. Grant has previously worked and held several senior full-time, part-time, and visiting positions at leading universities around the world, including Australia (Monash University, the University of Adelaide, and the University of New South Wales), China (Jilin University, Shandong University, South Western University of Finance and Economics, The University of International Business and Economics, and Xiamen University), Hong Kong (Chinese University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong), New Zealand (The University of Canterbury through the prestigious Erskine Research Fellowship) and the United States (The University of California - Berkeley and The University of Washington - Seattle). Grant is also a Research Affiliate of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Professor Richardson has published in a number of prestigious refereed journal publications across the accounting, business, finance, economics, and law disciplines, such as The Review of Accounting Studies, Management Science, The Journal of Corporate Finance, The Journal of Banking and Finance, The British Accounting Review, The European Accounting Review, The Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, The Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Accounting and Business Research, The Journal of Business Ethics, The Journal of Accounting Literature, Economics Letters, The Federal Law Review, and many more.

Professor Richardson's research achievements have been formally recognized by the Adelaide University Business School Executive Dean Research Excellence Awards and Best Paper Awards at the AFAANZ Annual Conference and the Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics Annual Conference. Grant is also formally acknowledged as one of the leading published authors of all time in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.

Professor Richardson has continually featured in the Stanford University list of most highly cited academic researchers in the accounting discipline in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 (ranked 50th in the world in 2024). The Stanford University list only includes the top 2% of the most-cited researchers in the accounting discipline worldwide. Furthermore, Grant's Google Scholar h-index is 44 with over 14,000 citations.

Professor Richardson's work has been cited in numerous top-tier accounting and finance journals, such as The Accounting Review, The Journal of Accounting Research, The Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, The Journal of Financial Economics, The Review of Financial Studies, The Journal of Financial and Quantitive Analysis, and Management Science. Grant has also work cited in several top-tier management journals, such as The Journal of Management, The Journal of International Business Studies, and Strategic Management Journal.

Professor Richardson is currently a Deputy Editor of Accounting and Finance and previously an Associate Editor of The Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics. Grant also serves on the Editorial Boards of several internationally renowned journals, such as The Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Accounting and Business Research, The International Journal of Accounting, The Journal of Accounting Literature, Abacus, and several others.

Professor Richardson is an Ad Hoc Reviewer for a number of leading accounting, business and finance journals, including The Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, The British Accounting Review, The European Accounting Review, The Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, Journal of Corporate Finance, The Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of International Accounting Research, Journal of International Business Studies, Energy Economics, Kyklos, British Journal of Management, Oxford Economic Papers, The Journal of World Business, The Journal of Public Economics, and many others.

Professor Richardson has significant research interests, expertise, and knowledge in capital markets research, particularly in the areas of financial accounting, corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, corporate tax avoidance, information disclosure, environmental finance, and related issues. Grant is also an internationally renowned scholar in corporate social responsibility and corporate tax avoidance research, among others.

Professor Richardson regularly consults with industry and government on financial accounting, taxation policy, and academic research in Australia and internationally.