Dr Chung Lai Hong is the Director of the MBA (Accountancy) Programme at the Nanyang Business School. She has a Bachelor of Accountancy degree (with honours) from the National University of Singapore and a Ph.D. in accounting and strategy from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to entering academia, Lai Hong worked as an internal auditor in a large governmental organisation. Her research interests include management planning and control issues in multinationals and strategic management accounting. She has published in international journals such as Group and Organization Management; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability; Accounting Research Journal and Accounting and Business Research and presented in numerous international conferences.

Lai Hong has been actively involved in executive development programmes for organizations such as BOC Gases Asia Pacific, DuPont Asia-Pacific, KPMG, Reuters Singapore and Schering AG.