For many years he held professorships at Baruch College, City University of New York and the MIT Sloan School of Management.
[2] He was married to Angeliki Laiou, a Harvard professor who was a scholar of the Byzantine Empire, and the second woman to be named a permanent member of the Academy of Athens since the organization was founded in 1926.
[2] The Public Interest Oversight Board (PIOB) was established after a series of corporate scandals, including the collapse of Enron and WorldCom in the United States and of Parmalat in Europe, led to demand for an independent body to oversee auditors and to ensure that audit standards are in the public interest.
The project of the PIOB is ambitious and represents a novelty for world-level public oversight.
Success for the PIOB will mean quality, stability, and integrity in companies and world markets".