OVERVIEW
The International Conference on Finance, Accounting and Auditing (ICFAA) 2026 is the 9th. in a series of successful conferences on Finance, Accounting and Auditing organized by The National Economics University (NEU, Vietnam) in collaboration with The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW, the United Kingdom) and The Cardiff Metropolitan University (the United Kingdom). The 2026 9th ICFAA will be held at The National Economics University (NEU), in Hanoi, Vietnam on 15th October 2026.
The conference provides a platform for local and international researchers, scientists, practitioners and educators from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest trends, experiences and concerns in the field of accounting, auditing and finance. The previous, 2025 8th ICFAA conference, was successful conducted with about 500 participants from all over the world.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Keynote Speaker No.1: Prof. Giovanni Urga
Professor at University of London; Director of the Centre for Econometric Analysis (CEA)
Prof. Giovanni Urga is Professor of Econometrics and Finance at Bayes Business School (City St George’s, University of London) and Director of the Centre for Econometric Analysis (CEA). He is also Visiting Professor at Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas (CRED), Senior Fellow at the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA), and a member of the panel for the Philip Leverhulme Prizes in Economics and ESRC Peer Review College.
He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford and has held previous academic positions at London Business School, Queen Mary University of London, and the New Economic School in Moscow, as well as a long-standing appointment at the University of Bergamo in Italy from 1992 to 2024, when he resigned.
Professor Urga serves as Associate Editor of Empirical Economics and has acted as guest editor for the
Journal of Econometrics and the
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He is a frequent referee for top journals, including
Econometrica,
Journal Econometrics,
Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Banking and Finance.
Through his role at CEA, he has developed an extensive international research network and organised major conferences and workshops, contributing to the global advancement of econometric research.
Keynote Speaker No.2: Mr. Soo Hoo Khoon Yean
Managing Partner, PwC Malaysia; Deputy President of Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Mr Khoon Yean has over 30 years experience in providing audit and business advisory services to a wide range of financial services clients in Singapore and Malaysia. Whilst in Singapore, in addition to normal statutory audit, he was also part of his firm’s Computer Risk Management Team. His duties included computer systems audit, mainly on IBM AS 400 and UNIX hardware platforms. His portfolio of clients in Singapore included international merchant banks, offshore banks, stockbroking institutions, leasing companies and commodity futures traders..
