2008 Faculty Pioneers

Prof. Simon S.M. Ho joined the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) as Dean of the School of Business in January 2004. Since November 2004, he also serves concurrently as Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Financial Policy (CCGFP).

 

Before joining HKBU, he taught at the School of Accountancy of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) for more than 20 years. He served as Director of the Centre for Accounting Disclosure and Corporate Governance from 1998 to 2004 and Director of the School of Accountancy at CUHK from 1995-2002. Under his leadership, CUHK became the first accounting school outside North America to receive the AACSB accreditation in 1998.

 

He was born in Hong Kong. He obtained a BBA degree from the University of Washington (USA), a MSc. degree (with distinction) in Information Systems from the London School of Economics (UK), and a Ph.D. degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Bradford (UK). He holds several professional qualifications in accounting, information systems, and financial planning.

 

Among major outside services, he currently serves on a number of HKSAR government bodies, and he is a consultant or advisor to a number of companies and non-profit organizations.

 

Being the first Chinese serving on the Council of IAAER, he is also the first Hong Kong expert serving on the Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting & Reporting (ISAR) of the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He has assisted the Working Group in developing international corporate governance & disclosure guidelines and the Global Accounting Curriculum Model. In 2004, he developed and launched the world's first MSc in Corporate Governance & Directorship Programme as well as the Inaugural Asia-Pacific Corporate Governance Conference held in HK. Since 2005, under the sponsorship of the World Bank, he serves as Lecturer on “International Corporate Governance” at the Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance, PRC. He is currently Associate Editor of International Journal of Disclosure and Governance and Member of the Editorial Board of the “Corporate Governance Literature Series” of Nankai University .

 

As an international expert in corporate governance, his major research interests include corporate governance, financial disclosure and analysis, strategic risk management, financial market regulation, and business and professional ethics. He publishes in many international refereed journals and is a columnist in the financial newspapers Hong Kong Economic Journal .

 

His recent works on corporate governance, family control and disclosure in the region have received wide attention and several awards.