Dr Lauren Reid is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Accounting at King’s College London. Her research focuses on audit regulation and its effects on audit quality and financial reporting. She examines the constraints on audit quality, the influence of corporate governance on financial reporting, and the implications of current and proposed audit regulation. Her work contributes to understanding the regulatory environment and its impact on organisational accountability and transparency. Her studies have been published in top-tier journals including The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research. She serves on the Editorial Boards of Contemporary Accounting Research and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and regularly referees for various leading journals.

Dr Reid joins King’s from Wake Forest University School of Business, where she held the position of Associate Professor of Accounting. She will also be serving as a Visiting Associate Professor of Accounting at London Business School during the 2026-27 academic year. She previously held a faculty position at the University of Pittsburgh and completed her PhD at the University of Tennessee.

Dr Reid is currently accepting PhD students.