Professor Martin Jacob holds the adidas endowed Chair of Finance, Accounting, and Taxation at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He received his undergraduate degree in business administration and his doctoral degree from the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research focuses on the economic effects of taxation on business decisions. His work has been published in several leading international journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Review of Financial Studies, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Journal of Public Economics. He further is an editor of The Accounting Review (since 2023) and Associate Editor of the European Accounting Review (since 2023). He was an Associate Editor of eAccounting & Business Research from 2016 to 2023. His research has been widely cited in newspapers as well as policy debates.

Since 2021, Martin Jacob is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Finance.