About

I make hidden corporate and professional behavior measurable, teach the next generation of sustainability and forensic accounting professionals, and engage with Singapore regulators on reporting and compliance.

I am an Associate Professor of Accounting with tenure at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. My research builds measures of what companies and the people around them actually do: greenwashing, tax avoidance, diversity tokenism, misconduct by financial advisors, and bias in analysts’ forecasts.

I develop novel measurement approaches using job postings, linguistic analysis of SEC filings, and machine learning to reveal what companies actually do, not what they claim. My work has been published in Nature, Management Science, the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and the Review of Accounting Studies.

Before academia, I was a Senior Corporate Tax Advisor at a Big 4 firm in Hong Kong. That experience taught me how corporations construct narratives. Now I deconstruct them.

University governance

Editorial service

Regulators and standard setters

I have shared my research with regulators and standard setters on detecting corporate misconduct and tax evasion, and on sustainability reporting. My letters are listed on the Comment letters page.

Awards

Teaching

Education

Professional experience

Speaking and executive education

I give talks and executive-education sessions on sustainability reporting, AI in auditing, and corporate fraud detection. Past talks are listed on the Talks page. For speaking or training inquiries, please get in touch.