Advisory Board
Hong Kong Academic Accounting Association

Dr. Jeong-Bon Kim
Chair Professor & Head
Department of Accountancy
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Phone: +852-3442-7909
Fax: +852-3442-0347
Email: jeongkim@cityu.edu.hk

Professor Jeong-Bon Kim is currently Chair Professor of Accountancy with concurrent appointment as Head of the Department of Accountancy, City University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining the City University of Hong Kong faculty, Professor Kim worked as a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting at John Molson School of Business (JMSB), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He also worked for many years at the School of Accounting and Finance, the Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he served as Head for the (then) Department of Accountancy and Associate Dean (Postgraduate Programmes and Research) for the Faculty of Business, with a concurrent appointment as Acting Head for the School of Accounting and Finance. Professor Kim began his full-time teaching career as an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY). He also taught at Seoul National University (Korea) on a visiting basis. Professor Kim obtained BBA and MSc degrees from Seoul National University. He received his Ph.D. degree with major in Accounting and minor in Economics from Temple University (USA). Professor Kim have published numerous articles, or have them accepted for publication, in leading academic journals in the areas of accounting and finance, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Accounting and Business Research, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, International Journal of Accounting, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Pacific- Basin Finance Journal, Journal of International Accounting Auditing & Taxation, and Japan and the World Economy. He has served on the editorial boards of two leading accounting journals, Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR), and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (AJPT), and is currently an Associate Editor of Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics and China Journal of Accounting Research. He was the Chief Editor of China Accounting and Finance Review. Professor Kim also served as an ad hoc Associate Editor for CAR and AJPT. He received large-scale research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for his interdisciplinary research projects titled “Corporate Governance, Information Structure and Cost of Capital: A Cross-country Comparison,” and “Advertising Expenditures, Information Intermediation, and Costs of Equity and Debt Financing around the World.” He has supervised many Ph.D. students and a postdoctoral fellow who are currently teaching at John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, the Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario, and other business schools in major universities in Canada and China, including University of Manitoba, Fudan University and Shanghai Jiatong University.