Accounting and Accountability in Emerging Economies (AAEE) Conference 2025

Christopher Napier

Christopher Napier is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at Royal Holloway University of London. He retired in 2024 after a 45-year academic career, including appointments at the London School of Economics and the University of Southampton, where he gained his PhD. Christopher qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1978, and  for several years he was a member of Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. His research interests include accounting history, accounting theory, corporate financial reporting, accountability and governance, and Islamic accounting, and he has written or edited over 120 books, book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles.

Susela Devi Suppiah

Professor Dr. Susela Devi Suppiah has a career spanning over 40 years in the accounting and education sector with significant regional as well as global engagement in the ASEAN and Asia Pacific regions. She served as Director of Sunway Centre for Environmental Social Governance, before her retirement from Sunway University in August 2024. She also served as Module Leader for Sustainable Management and Operations course within the Masters in Sustainable Development Management program offered by Sunway University. In these challenging emerging trends in sustainability, she engaged extensively (curating the module) with industry experts, bringing use cases to the topics covered.
A seasoned accounting professional whose forte is in financial reporting standards, her current focus is on ISSB’s IFRS S1 and S2 implementation aspects. Susela is also nationally recognised for her domain expertise, having been appointed to serve as Executive Director, on the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) in 2009. She has conducted training for C-Suites on IFRSs.
Susela has recently completed her term as President of the Malaysian Accounting Association from 2020-2024. She is currently the Advisor and Subject Matter Expert for a public program on ESG Change Management certification, whilst actively volunteering as mentor and coach to a women’s NGO.
A veteran of the financial and accounting industry, Susela started her career in Hanafiah Raslan & Mohamad in 1981 in auditing. As her career progressed, she took on leadership roles in multiple disciplines including financial accounting and auditing, industry relations for business and accountancy, compliance, public policy, and governance across several national and international universities and business schools. She currently serves as Honorary Professor in Universiti Selangor (UNISEL) Malaysia.
Susela has pioneered several industry firsts in her career, as inaugural director of the Sunway Centre for Environmental Social Governance (SC ESG), formerly known as the Centre for Accountability and Governance Research originally established in April 2019. She had participated and completed the Women on Board training by Leadwomen in 2012. She was appointed as the first professor of accounting in University of Malaya in 2013. Susela was also part of the technical delegation from the Malaysian Institute of Accountants to the International Accounting Standards Committee in 1998. She served as the project manager of the MASB’s first working group on the Conceptual Framework in 1998.
A Certified Public Accountant and strong governance and accountability advocate, Susela volunteers as member of several working groups in the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board She is an alumni of the University of Waikato, New Zealand and University of Malaya, Malaysia.

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