Faculty introduction

IAAER（International Association for Accounting Education and Research）、AAA（American Accounting Association）、EAA（European Accounting Association）

TOKUGA Yoshihiro earned required credits in the Doctoral Program at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University, and then obtained a PhD in Economics from Kyoto University in 1999. He assumed the position of professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University, in 2000 and moved as a professor to the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, in 2002. He concurrently served as a professor at the Graduate School of Management of the same university from 2006. At Kyoto University, he also worked as an assistant director in charge of finance, Dean of the Graduate School of Management, and Director of the Center for East Asian Economic Studies. Afterward, he served as Vice President of Kyoto University for three terms, from 2015 to 2020. In his activities in academic societies, he is now President of the Japan Accounting Association. He has also assumed many president and director positions of academic societies in Japan and abroad, including President of the Asian Academic Accounting Association. He specializes in international accounting and financial accounting. His book Kokusai-kaikei-ron (International Accounting) won the Ota-Kurosawa Prize. He has been long involved in formulating accounting regulations and standards in Japan, serving as Chairperson of the Corporate Accounting Council of the Financial Services Agency, a member of the Certified Public Accountants and Auditing Oversight Board, a member of the Accounting Standards Board of Japan, etc. Since April 2021, he has served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, the Graduate School of Economics, and the Graduate School of Business Administration, Kyoto University of Advanced Science.