Lisa De Simone joined the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin as an associate professor of accounting in 2020. From 2013 to 2020, she was an associate professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She teaches and has taught tax and personal finance courses to students in the BBA, MPA, MBA, and Ph.D. programs at the University.

Her research examining how multinational corporations and individuals respond to tax incentives worldwide has been published in top accounting and finance journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Review of Financial Studies.

Previous work experience includes transfer pricing consulting for Ernst & Young and litigation consulting support for the Analysis Group.

De Simone earned a B.A. in economics and German studies from Stanford in 2002, an M.S. in accounting from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2008, and a Ph.D. in accounting from The University of Texas at Austin in 2013.