Jon S. Davis is the Arthur Anderson Alumni Professor and chair of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at the Wisconsin School of Business. His teaching and research primarily are in the tax area. His research examines issues related to tax professional and legal judgment and tax policy issues, particularly in the area of regulatory compliance. His research utilizes methods and theories from psychology, economics and agent-based modeling. He has published resarch in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research and Journal of the American Taxation Association (and other journals).

Professor Davis is a contributing author for the best-selling SouthWestern Federal Income Tax textbook series (with over 2 million copies sold). He also provides continuing education courses in taxation for the AICPA and "Big 4" public accounting firms.

Professor Davis worked previously as an assistant and associate professor of accountancy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He received his Ph.D. from University of Arizona, with a major in accounting and minors in experimental economics and the psychology of judgment and decision making. He is a CPA in the State of Arizona and chairs the Accounting Accreditation Committee for the AACSB.