Mark Nigrini

Mark J. Nigrini is an associate professor at the Department of Accounting at West Virginia University. He is the recipient of the West Virginia Society of CPA's Outstanding Educator Award for 2020. He is the author of Forensic Analytics Second Edition (Wiley, 2020) which describes analytic tests to detect fraud, errors, biases, and other anomalies in financial data. He is also the author of Benford's Law (Wiley, 2012), the seminal work on applications of Benford's Law. His work has been featured in national media including The Financial Times, New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and he has published papers in accounting academic journals, scientific journals, and pure mathematics journals, as well as professional publications. He is the 2014 winner of the Journal of Accountancy's Lawler Award. He regularly presents his forensic accounting research at conferences in the U.S. and abroad, with recent events in Canada, Italy, Bahrain, and Panama.