Prof. Simon Shun-Man HO joined the University of Macau (UM) in March 2009. He was born and received basic education 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), a PhD degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Bradford (UK), and a Certificate in Higher Education Management and Leadership from the University of California, Berkeley (USA). He holds several professional qualifications in accounting, information systems, and financial planning.
Prior to joining UM, Prof. Ho was with the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) serving as Dean of the School of Business and concurrently as Founding Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Financial Policy (CCGFP) from 2004 to 2009. 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 to 2002. Under his leadership, CUHK became the first accounting school outside North America to receive The Association to Advance Collegiate School of Business (AACSB) accreditation in 1998.
Before his academic career, Prof. Ho was an audit staff member at a certified public accountant's firm, a financial system analyst, and an assistant consultant at the Hong Kong Productivity Council. He was the Founding President of the Hong Kong Academic Accounting Association, Vice President of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER), Chairperson of the Organizing Committee of the 2002 IAAER World Congress of Accounting Educators, Member of the Public Education Committee of Independent Commission Against Corruption (HK), Member of several committees of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA), Founding Vice President of the Hong Kong Professionals and Senior Executives Association, Editor-in-Chief of the Hong Kong Journal of Business Management, Guest Editor of the Management Accounting Research and Journal of Business Ethics, and Member of the editorial boards of several international academic journals.
Currently, he serves on a number of public bodies in the Hong Kong SAR Government. Besides being the Chairman of the Hong Kong Corporate Governance Forum, he is also the Council Member of the China Higher Education Association, Board Member of the Hong Kong Securities Institute, and Advisor to a number of international bodies.
As an internationally known expert on corporate governance, Prof. Ho assisted the Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) of the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in developing international corporate governance and disclosure guidelines. In 2004, he developed and launched the world's first MSc Programme in Corporate Governance and Directorship as well as the Inaugural Asia-Pacific Corporate Governance Conference held in Hong Kong. Since 2005, under the sponsorship of the World Bank, he has served as Lecturer on "International Corporate Governance" at the Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance, China. In 2007, he was the key person in developing the Hong Kong Corporate Governance Excellence Awards organized jointly by the Hong Kong Chamber of Listed Companies and the CCGFP of HKBU. He is now the Associate Editor of Asian Journal of Business Ethics (Springer) and Member of the Editorial Board of the "Corporate Governance Literature Series" of Nankai University and Advances in Business Ethics Research (Springer).
Prof. Ho has published many academic articles and books and is a columnist on corporate governance in the Hong Kong Economic Journal. His works on corporate governance, complicated ownership and family business in the region have received wide attention and several awards.
In recognition of his contributions to corporate governance and corporate social responsibility, he was awarded the 2008 Faculty Pioneer Award (described as Oscar of the business school world by the Financial Times) by the Aspen Institute, USA. Further, he was elected as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics 2008 by Ethisphere, one of the world's most recognized bodies in business ethics and anti-corruption.
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