Meet the Dean

Richard J. Joseph, PhD

Richard J. Joseph is the dean of Hult International Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a current member of the Hult accounting faculty and a former member of the tax faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. Before assuming the Hult deanship, he served as director of graduate accounting programs at the McCombs School of Business.

A graduate magna cum laude of Harvard College (BA), Oxford University (MLitt) and the University of Texas at Austin School of Law (J.D.), Dean Joseph has taught international, corporate, individual, state and local taxation, tax research methods, and financial and managerial accounting. A former adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, he has also taught contract, corporate, securities, agency and partnership law.

Before embarking on his academic career, Dean Joseph worked as an international banker at Citibank, Riyadh; an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, New York; a securities trader at Becker Paribas, Dallas, and Bear Stearns, New York; and a mergers and acquisitions lawyer for the Bass Group, Fort Worth. He is co-author of Prentice Hall’s Federal Taxation series, used by more than 10,000 accounting students worldwide and has written commentaries in the Financial Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Tax Notes, and Tax Notes International. His book, The Origins of the American Income Tax, explores the original intent, rationale and effect of the early income tax.