About

Professor (Practice), National University of Singapore

Prof Chua is Professor (Practice) in Accounting at National University of Singapore Business School. He teaches mainly at the executive MBA and MSc programmes, and some undergraduate courses. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Audit Committee of OCBC Bank, a board member of MPACT Management Ltd (the management company for Mapletree Pan-Asia Commercial Trust, one of the largest REITs in Asia) and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of National University Health System.

He was formerly a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Singapore and senior advisor at PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong and China. As a member of the leadership team for Singapore, he was overall responsible for the firm’s risk and quality management function spanning across quality assurance, risk management, legal, accounting advisory and audit methodology. In his long and distinguished career at PwC, he also held other senior positions as the head of the Banking and Capital Markets Group, the China Desk and a member of the governance board. He has led financial due diligence engagements for acquisitions of banks in Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Passionate about the development of accounting standards, he writes regularly to the International Accounting Standards Board with his views on exposure drafts of accounting standards or discussion papers. 

Formerly he was Chairman of the Financial Reporting Committee and Chairman of the Banking and Finance Committee of ISCA.