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Elizabeth Keating

Senior Research Fellow

Lecturer, Harvard Law School

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Elizabeth K. Keating is the Eli Goldston Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. In addition, she teaches in the Kennedy School's Executive Education program and is affiliated with the Center for Business and Government's Regulatory Policy Program, and the A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government. Her research focuses on nonprofit and governmental accountability, retirement funding and organizational financial distress. She recently co-authored two reports on retirement security for public sector employees: Blue Ribbon Panel Report on MA Public Employee Pension Classification System and The Elephant in the Room: Unfunded Public Employee Health Care Benefits and GASB 45. She has taught accounting and financial management at the Kennedy School, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Stern School of Business at New York University, and the Not-for-Profit Institute at Columbia University. Prior to becoming an academic, Keating ran a consulting firm serving nonprofit organizations and worked as a credit officer and research analyst on Wall Street. She is a CPA and received her PhD in management from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and her MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.