Dr. Catalin Albu, currently Associate Professor of Accounting at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies (ASE), Romania, has been named the first KPMG Fellow in Romania. Catalin is Fulbright Senior Fellow 2011 at the University of Dayton, where he taught and conducted research with American colleagues. The KPMG Foundation has initiated professorships at the US level since 1974 , to acknowledge the central role faculty play in the academic process. Wanting to be the first to contribute to the development of local faculty in our country, KPMG Romania has initiated KPMG Professorships for deserving local academics within the cooperation agreement with ASE. Considering his Fulbright experience, KPMG awarded Catalin the first title of KPMG Fellow, wanting to encourage excellency in teaching and research by local faculty. KPMG Romania and Catalin are committed to engage in a process of bringing ever closer the accounting academic and business environments, in the mutual benefit, and especially, of ASE's students.