Sharon Machado

Chun Wee is the regional policy and insights lead for ACCA, tasked with supporting its research and insights, advocacy, and policy work across Asia Pacific. He works with key stakeholders to identify and drive new research initiatives that provide evidence-based policy and thinking impacting the business community and profession, demonstrating ACCA’s regional and global reach and public values. Chun Wee is a regular speaker and panel chair on topics ranging from talent strategy, evolution of corporate reporting, integrated thinking, sustainability, the evolving role and skillset of finance leaders, and the value of audit.

Chun Wee has served on various external committees. He was a board member on the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board from 2018 to 2023, serving as taskforce member on a variety of key IAASB projects including (firm level) quality management and proposed standard for audits of less complex entities during his tenure. Other committees he has served on include the Working Group and Training Advisory Group of the IIRC, <IR> Committee under the MIA, Working Committee for international standards adoption under AFA, Steering Committee for the Singapore Stewardship Principles for Responsible Investors under Stewardship Asia. He currently chairs the Accounting, Reporting and Assurance Coordinating Committee of CAPA.

Prior to joining ACCA, Chun Wee was a key member of the Professional Practice Department of a Big Four accounting practice, where he focused on audit methodology and regularly delivered internal and external trainings on auditing and quality management matters in Singapore and the Southeast Asia region. In addition, he has more than a decade of experience in public accounting and has worked in audits of and special assignments for multinationals and local listed companies.