prof.dr. PYE (Edith) Leung

Biography

Edith Leung is a visiting professor in the Section Accounting, Auditing and Control in the Department of Business Economics. She joined the department in 2013 after completing her PhD at Tilburg University and a research visit at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. Edith was a full-time faculty member at Erasmus School of Economics until 2024.

Her research focuses on disclosures, regulation and inter-firm relationships. Her work has been published in top international journals such as Journal of Accounting Research and The Accounting Review. She was awarded a NWO Veni Grant of 250,000 euros for her project on non-GAAP disclosures ("Disclosures of Alternative Performance Metrics: Misleading or Informative?") in 2016.

Her teaching has included the undergraduate course intermediate financial accounting for second-year bachelor students and master seminars on financial accounting and auditing research. Outside of Erasmus School of Economics, Edith is on the Standing Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association, where she is responsible for the selection of academic papers for the Financial Analysis section of the Annual Congress, the largest European conference for accounting scholars.

Edith is currently a full professor in the Department of Accountancy at Tilburg University.