Yuxia Zou

Yuxia (pronounced "yu-shia") is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Nanyang Business School (NBS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Her research lies at the intersection of financial and managerial accounting, with a focus on sustainability. Through quantitative empirical research, she examines how accounting systems, including internal management, external disclosure, and information assurance, contribute to more sustainable capital markets. 

Yuxia represents NTU on the Steering Committee of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) and serves on its Board of Directors. She is the Conference Chair of the 18th Annual ARCS Research Conference, hosted at NTU in 2026 and marking the ARCS community's first gathering in Asia. 

Previously a Research Fellow at the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Yuxia now organizes the NBS-PRI-ECGI Public Lecture Series on Sustainable Business. The series features monthly hybrid or online public lectures by leading scholars and industry experts across all business disciplines, facilitating knowledge exchange among academics, practitioners, and policymakers in sustainable business. 

Yuxia has been teaching financial accounting and corporate finance in higher education since 2016. She is committed to creating an inclusive, student-focused learning environment and has received multiple teaching awards. In 2021, she was recognized as an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Yuxia holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and an M.Phil. in Finance from Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS), University of Cambridge. During her time at Cambridge, she was a Research Associate at Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) and a Benavitch Scholar at St Catharine's College. 

Informally, Yuxia also goes by "Sarine", which is the combination of her name's meaning in English ("yu" for rain and "xia" for summer). 

Contact

yuxia.zou@ntu.edu.sg