Dr Soon Yong Ang

Dr. Soon Yong Ang is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Accounting at the University of Stirling. He holds a PhD in Accounting from the University of Glasgow, where he was awarded the College of Social Science Scholarship. He also earned a Bachelor of Accounting (First Class Honours) and a Master of Business Administration (Accounting, First Class Honours) from the University of Malaya. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

He has more than 20 years of combined academic, professional, and corporate experience. His career began as an auditor and management control consultant at Ernst & Young, followed by management roles in multinational corporations. He later joined Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) as a lecturer. His professional portfolio includes clients from a wide range of industries, including banking, energy, mining, utilities, infrastructure, manufacturing, information technology, and engineering.

Dr. Ang’s research spans both theoretical and practical dimensions. Theoretically, he is a critical and interdisciplinary accounting scholar whose research agenda draws on social theory, philosophy, and anthropology. Using ethnographic fieldwork, historical analysis, and archival studies, his work investigates accountability, accounting, governance, and management control in the context of sustainable development in the Global South. Specifically, he is particularly interested in understanding how management control, governance, accounting, and accountability practices in the Global South have been implicated by the competing logics between the centre and the periphery, given their differences in social, cultural, political, and historical dynamics, such as postcolonial legacies and neoliberalism.

His academic publications appear in leading international journals, including Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Financial Accountability & Management, and the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management. He also serves as a reviewer for journals such as the Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, the Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and Financial Accountability and Management.

Practically, Dr. Ang’s research (consultancy) work contributes to societal, political, and policy impact, particularly in advancing the global sustainable development agenda. For example, he recently collaborated with a non-governmental organisation to develop performance measurement frameworks aligned with the United Nations’ behavioural science agenda on sustainable development, engaging with local authorities, government agencies, community-based organisations, and residents’ associations. His research (consultancy) work keeps pace with the latest developments. For instance, he has advised professional bodies on implementing Clarified Auditing Standards, supported small and medium-sized enterprises in Malaysia with Goods and Services Tax (GST) compliance, and contributed to policy discussions on well-being budget implementation. More recently, his research has expanded to examine issues of marginality, displacement, and disenfranchisement affecting refugees and indigenous peoples.

Dr. Ang has been awarded several interdisciplinary research grants. These include the NERC Discipline Hopping Grant (£18,706), which supported stakeholder dialogue and engagement with aquatic fisheries in Vietnam and China to develop a one-health framework for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) localisation. He is also a recipient of the Connect Amazonia: UBBI-FAPESPA Collaboration Fund (2025–2026, (£16,140), which focuses on empowering indigenous communities in Amazon to lead sustainable development initiatives.

His current primary research interests are as follows:

1. Accountability, management accounting, governance and control in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the public sector, and other non-profit organizations.

2. The role of accounting and accountability in addressing sustainable development issues, including democracy, emancipation, poverty eradication, indigenous rights, biodiversity, and related topics.

3. Colonial and postcolonial perspectives on accounting, accountability, governance and management control.

4. Accounting professionalisation