Claude K. Smith Endowed Lecture Series on Accounting | Alfonzo Alexander

The Claude K. Smith Endowed Lecture Series on Accounting is designed to provide Eastern Kentucky University students with the opportunity to hear, meet, network with, and learn from nationally recognized experts in the accounting profession. Additionally, the lecture series will be available to members of the accounting profession and the general community. The Series will provide an on-campus public presentation attracting accounting professionals from the region and nation.

EKU Accounting is pleased to welcome Mr. Alfonzo Alexander as the annual speaker on Tuesday, April 11, 2023.

Alfonzo Alexander serves as chief ethics and diversity officer of NASBA and the president of NASBA’s Center for the Public Trust (CPT). He oversees strategic diversity initiatives and ethics compliance for the organization, while facilitating several special projects working with the CEO.

As CPT President, Mr. Alexander oversees this ethics and leadership organization’s day-to-day operations and a growing number of CPT programs. Under his leadership, the CPT has cultivated new partnerships and built programs on nearly 100 college and university campuses across the United States, established Ethical Leadership Certification and Training Programs, and grown its Being a Difference Award Program extensively.

Before being named CPT president in January 2012, Mr. Alexander served as a staff director and vice president of the CPT and later chief relationship officer for NASBA. Before joining NASBA in 2006, Mr. Alexander served as regional manager and managing director for the Southeast region of INROADS, Inc., where he led operations and business development in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Before joining INROADS, he held several leadership positions in operations management and human resources at the Quaker Oats Company.

Currently, Mr. Alexander is the vice chairman of the PhD Project board of directors and serves on the audit and executive committees of the board of directors for the Memorial Foundation. He holds a B.S. degree in business administration with an emphasis on human resources management from Tennessee Tech University and an M.B.A. degree from Lipscomb University.