SDE5403 Sustainability Reporting and Practices

Dr. Kevin Ow Yong is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Singapore Institute of Technology. He holds a First Class Honours Degree (with a University Medal) in Accounting from Nanyang Technological University and received his PhD degree from Duke University. He has previously worked at Peking University as an associate professor, Singapore Management University as an assistant professor, and Singapore Airlines as a regional accountant and financial analyst.

Dr. Ow Yong has been a Chartered Accountant (CA) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA) since 2003 as well as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) since 2002. He currently sits on the IS Chartered Accountant Journal Editorial Advisory Panel. He is also a member of the UAFRS Advisory Council with Valens Research. He has previously served on the Candidate Programmes Committee with the CFA Society (Singapore) and was on the advisory board with Brahm Centre, a non-profit charity organisation as their finance advisor.

His work has been published in numerous well-known accounting research journals, including the Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, European Accounting Review, Advances in Accounting, and China Journal of Accounting Research.  He has been cited in two of Singapore’s most well-circulated newspapers, the Straits Times and the Business Times on several occasions, and in CPA Singapore (Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants publication), Accounting and Business (ACCA publication), Pulses (previously, the Singapore Stock Exchange Journal), Asian Scientist, Smart Investor, QFinance and CFO Asia, a publication of The Economist Group. He has also received invitations to speak at several top ranking universities in China,including Tsinghua University, Sun Yat-Sen University and Xiamen University as well as other famous universities in the Asia-Pacific region. He was invited as a guest lecturer to teach at Kozminski University, the top private university in Poland, and at Kyushu University, widely regarded as one of the top ten best universities in Japan.

In recognition of his research work, he has won the Second Best Paper Award at the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Competition, the Best Paper Award from the Third International Conference of Accounting and Finance (Danang City, Vietnam), and the Best Paper Award from the China Journal of Accounting Research Symposium (Guangzhou, China). He has received several research grants for his research work, including a research grant from the KPMG Foundation and the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) in 2011 and the prestigious Ministry of Education Tier II educational grant in 2015 for his research work on fair value accounting.

Lay Huay is a Senior Lecturer in the Accountancy Program at the Singapore Institute of Technology. With over 15 years of industry experience in financial institutions and public accounting firms, she brings a wealth of practical knowledge to her academic role. Her last corporate position was Vice President of Finance at Barclays Bank, where she led teams across Singapore, Hong Kong and India to provide decision support to APAC Senior Management through performance reporting, budgeting, and strategic planning. Currently, she is pursuing part-time PhD studies at an Australian university, focusing on auditors’ reporting. Her research interests also include corporate governance, risk management, and sustainability reporting. She currently serves in Singapore Accountancy Commission Learning & Assessment Committee for Foundation Programme for the Singapore Chartered Accountant (CA) Qualification, as well as SIT’s Sustainability Education Committee and Applied Learning and Innovation Grant Evaluation Panel.