Smith School Administrators

M. Christine Stewart, CPA,
Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration

Christine Stewart is the assistant dean for finance and administration at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in College Park. A comprehensive business school, Smith offers undergraduate, full-time and part-time MBA, Executive MBA, PhD, and non-degree executive education programs, as well research and outreach services to the corporate community in Maryland and around the world.

In her capacity as assistant dean, Stewart oversees the daily operations of the Smith School including the administration of a $65 million budget, the financial management process, accounting, grants, procurement, facilities management, staff/faculty operations, and payroll/benefits and human resources for over 600 employees.

Stewart is a CPA and a past president of the Maryland Association of CPAs, a 10,000-member organization. Her involvement in the MACPA has included the Cooperation with Financial Institutions Committee, past chairperson of the Continuing Professional Education Committee, member of the Continuing Professional Education Special Task Force, the Political Action, Budget, and State Legislative Committees and chair of the Student Recruitment Task Force for Accounting Education and the Board of Directors of the Capital Area Chapter. She is currently a member of the American Institute of CPAs and a member of the Group of 100, a cross-functional group of members from various segments of the profession, whose purpose is to uncover and prioritize emerging issues, capturing the "hottest" issues and market opportunities so that the profession can rapidly respond with appropriate actions.

She is a contributing author to the 1991 edition of the "Community Bank Guide to Asset/Liability Management Policies" and the 1993 edition of the "Strategic Financial Management for Commercial Banks." She has been on the faculties of the BAI School, The Graduate School of Banking, the Midwest School for Community Bankers, and the Maryland, Ohio and Mississippi Schools of Banking. She is currently on the faculty of the Bank Administration Institute Graduate School of Bank Operations, Payments and Technology.

Stewart received her accounting degree from the University of Maryland and her graduate degree in finance from the University of Baltimore. She is a native of Washington, D.C., and resides in Clarksville, Maryland.

To balance out her work life Stewart likes to garden, ski and read. Her favorite book is The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, however The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman has become a close second. She also likes to spend time with her family. Stewart is one of seven children, and every August, for the past 27 years, they all fly in from around the country and meet at the beach for a week; a tradition that is now being passed on to her children and grandchildren.