Stewart received his Ph.D. and MBA from New York University. Dr. Karlinsky teaches, writes, testifies, and speaks in the corporate, individual, real estate, alternative minimum tax, S corporation, reorganizations, tax policy, international tax, and closely held business tax areas. He has lectured extensively to various professional accounting organizations (AICPA, TEI, California CPA), accounting firms (PWC, Ernst & Young, Accuity, BPM, Moss Adams, Sensiba San Filippo, and Frank Rimerman). He has been an expert witness for both prosecution and defense and testified before Congress on AMT. He was a Fulbright senior specialist and served as such at two universities in Ireland. He has taught international tax, tax policy, and comparative tax systems in the United Kingdom, France, Austria, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. Most recently, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Silicon Valley Chapter of the California CPA Society.

Stewart has published over 100 articles in both professional and academic journals. He was the editor-in-chief of WGL’s High Tech Industry: Tax, Law, Business Planning. He is on the editorial board of the AICPA’s Tax Adviser and ATA’s Journal of Legal Tax Research. He has been cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Bloomberg News, Tax Notes, and Bear Stearns Accounting Issues, and he has been interviewed on both radio and television in the U.S. and Australia.