Professor Hwang Yuh-Chang is Honorary Professor in Accounting, CaixaBank Chair in Accounting, and Academic Director of DBA Programme at CEIBS. Previously he was Associate Professor of Accounting at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

Professor Hwang received his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. Prior to joining Arizona State University, Professor Hwang taught at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. His teaching and research interests include managerial accounting, incentive contracting design, performance measurement and healthcare cost and quality management. At the W. P. Carey School of Business, Professor Hwang taught exclusively at the MBA levels and various Master/PhD programmes including Executive MBA. He received the outstanding graduate teaching award from the School of Accountancy & Information Management in 1998. And he was awarded the CEIBS 2015 Teaching Excellence Awards. 

Professor Hwang was elected as Secretary/Treasurer of the Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association (2007-2009). He is currently on the editorial board of several leading accounting journals including The Accounting Review and has published extensively in academic journals including: Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Accounting, and Auditing and Finance.