Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Program

Through the annual Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship program, the Deloitte Foundation awards $25,000 grants to 10 top accounting Ph.D. candidates across the U.S. Given to students who plan to pursue academic careers upon graduation, the award is intended to help cover expenses during recipients’ final year of coursework and the subsequent year to complete their doctoral dissertation.

Each year, accounting doctoral students from more than 100 universities are invited to apply for the fellowship. A selection committee composed of eminent accounting educators chose this year’s recipients who were nominated by accounting faculty of their school. Since inception, the program has supported nearly 1,200 PhDs to help increase the pipeline of faculty who are preparing the next generation of business leaders.

The 2025 recipients and the institutions they attend are:

• Austin Blake, Arizona State University
• Ferdinand Bratek, New York University
• Jewel Evans, University of Chicago
• Lauren Frederick, Cornell University
• Andrew Glover, University of Washington
• Caitlin Landy, Bentley University
• Yongzhao Lin, Washington University in St. Louis
  
• Ziqi Ma, University of Cincinnati
• Fiona Lucia Grace Sequeira, Stanford University
• Isaac Yamoah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  

“The Foundation helps today’s students be ready for the jobs of tomorrow and faculty play an important role in developing a workforce that is prepared for career success,” said Erin Scanlon, Deloitte Foundation president. “Supporting the selected Ph.D. candidates in this critical phase of their academic studies is one way the Foundation can help strengthen the pipeline of accounting professors who will go on to teach thousands of students over the course of their careers.”