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Professor Benny K B Kwok has specialized as a forensic accountant and expert witness for nearly 30 years. Qualified 33 years ago as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the UK, Professor Kwok’s career has spanned private and public sectors in Hong Kong and the UK, including KPMG (HK and UK), the Audit Commission (UK) and Santander Bank (UK). Professor Kwok was also awarded the professional qualifications of Chartered Surveyor, Chartered Tax Adviser, Chartered Construction Manager, Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Public Accountant during 1990s and 2000s.

Professor Kwok has been providing expert assistance to plaintiffs or defendants and their advisers in relation to the analysis and assessment of dispute claims as well as the tracing and tracking of transactions and corresponding fund flows. Professor Kwok has regularly produced expert reports in supporting investigations, litigations and dispute claims, and has attended arbitration hearings, disciplinary proceedings as well as trials at the District Court and the High Court in Hong Kong, on civil and criminal cases, as an expert witness to give evidence in respect of his expert opinions. Professor Kwok was also appointed as the single joint expert five times in civil proceedings under the Court’s orders.

Professor Kwok’s book “Forensic Accountancy”, currently in its third edition, was published 22 years ago by LexisNexis as one of the first published titles in Asia-Pacific designated for forensic accounting. Professor Kwok’s multinational perspectives on forensic accounting are acknowledged through his another book “Accounting Irregularities in Financial Statements” published 19 years ago by Taylor & Francis in the UK.