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Raquel Meyer Alexander is an Assistant Professor at the School of Business, University of Kansas. Her research focuses on tax policy related to personal savings and corporate taxation. Her award-winning research has lead to reform in the college savings industry, and has been requested by policy makers and regulators such as the SEC, the MSRB, FINRA, and the White House.

Raquel’s research has been published in top journals such as the Journal of the American Taxation Association, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and the Journal of Law and Politics.  She has presented at over 50 academic institutions and conferences.  Professor Raquel has been quoted or cited in numerous popular press publications including Business Week, the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal among others.   Raquel has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Taxation Association and the Executives’ Tax and Management Report.

Raquel teaches taxation in the MAcc and undergraduate accounting programs at the School of Business. She is the recipient of the 2010 KU School of Business teaching award and the 2008 American Taxation Association Teaching Innovation Award. Her service learning graduate tax class has been recognized by the U.S. Congress, Campus Compact, the IRS, the ABA, and was one of three KU courses highlighted in the KU's successful Presidential Community Service Honor Roll nomination. She has consulted or provided executive education to a number of firms and investment professionals around the country and currently serves on Kansas Treasurer Estes' advisory council.

Raquel earned her Ph.D. in 2001 at the University of Texas-Austin.  Prior to that, she earned a BS in Accounting at the University of Kansas, a M.Taxation at Arizona State University and worked as a tax consultant in the Dallas, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona offices at KPMG.  She is a licensed CPA in Kansas.

B.S. Accounting, University of Kansas
M. Taxation, Arizona State University
PhD Accounting, University of Texas

Joined the University of Kansas in 2005

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Academic Areas

Accounting and Information Systems

Interests

Tax policy and savings