Gregory S. Allison is the Albert and Gladys Hall Coates Distinguished Term Teaching Professor at the School of Government. He is an expert in, lectures on, and provides technical support in the field of governmental accounting and financial reporting. Allison is the director of the School’s Municipal and County Administration course. 

He joined the School in 1997. Previously, he was assistant director with the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada in Chicago, Illinois; former finance director for the City of Morganton, North Carolina; and an auditor with the international accounting firm Deloitte and Touche. He is also co-author of the 8th and 9th Revised and 10th editions of Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting, published by Prentice Hall.

Allison was awarded the Outstanding Conference Speaker Award for both 2000 and 2001, the Outstanding Chapter Speaker Award in 2005, the Outstanding Discussion Leader Award in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, and 2015, the 5.0 Discussion Leader Award in 2014, and the 2014 R. Donald Farmer Award by the NC Association of Certified Public Accountants. He was awarded the Association’s Outstanding Member in Government Award for 2000–2001. He was also recognized as the Albert and Gladys Hall Term Lecturer for Teaching Excellence for 2002–2004, and the Term Faculty Achievement Award for 2010–2012.