Full Professor of Finance and Accounting in the Department of Accounting of the Faculty of Economics. PhD in Economic and Business Administration from the Universitat de València, awarded by his outstanding PhD thesis.

Regarding his research activity, he is the director of several research lines included in META (Management Reports, Transparency, Accounting Education and Reliability of Financial Information), in the Research Structure Registered. He has conducted and participated in several competitive research projects, performing transparency actions with public and private entities. He is the author of numerous articles in indexed journals (WOS, SCOPUS) and several research monographies in institutions as IVIE, CNMV or AECA. He has five six-year terms of certified research activity, one of them of transfer of knowledge and innovation.

As a professor, he has conducted several courses in undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the Faculty of Economics. He las leaded projects of educational innovation and is the responsible for a consolidated group of teaching innovation. He has six five-year terms of certified teaching activity.

From 2016 to 2020 he was chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Association of Accounting University Professors (ASEPUC).

From 2013 to 2021, on representation of Other Entities Representing Collective Interests, he was a General Counselor of Caixa Ontinyent. During the same period, he was a Member of the Board of Directors and a Member of its Executive and Management Committee. From 2017 to 2021, he was a member of the Investment Committee of the same financial institution. 

At the University of Valencia, he was Director of the Accounting Departament (2009-2012), member of the Statutes Commission (2009-2013), member of the Commission for the elaboration of the Syllabus of the degree in Business Administration and Management and of the Commission for the elaboration of the Syllabus of the official master's degree in Accounting, Auditing and Management Control, Rector's Delegate for the Management of the EDEM University Centre (2012-2014), Vice-Rector for Economics, Infrastructures and Information Technologies (2014-2018) and Vice-Rector for Economics and Infrastructures (2018-2019).

He has been a member of the Board of the Faculty of Economics and has been a member of the Senate since 2009.

David Huguet Benavent holds a Degree in Business Administration and Management (2007), a Master’s Degree in Accounting, Auditing and Management Control, with Exceptional Award (2009), and a PhD in Accounting (2014) from University of Valencia. He had a Pre-doc stay in the Department of Accounting and Information Management at University of Maastricht (2013) and a postdoc stay in the Department of Accounting and Finance at University of Bristol (2015). He is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Accounting at University of Valencia.

His research interests are focused on the fields of auditing, the analysis of differences between national and international accounting standards, and the transparency and reliability of the corporate information in the digital environment. He is a member of the research group META “Management reporting, transparency, accounting education and reliability of the financial information”, and he has participated in the research project ECONIIF “Economic consequences of the adoption of the IFRS in Europe: The influence of the institutional differences and the economic cycle”. He has also collaborated in several projects for the development of management accounting systems.
With regard to his teaching activities, he teaches courses in accounting in several Degrees at the Faculty of Economics and in the Master’s Degree in Accounting, Auditing and Management Control.

He is a member of the Consolidated Educational Innovations Group “Preparation of multimedia resources for teaching in accounting”, in which he has participated in three projects. He is currently participating in the Project “Ètica” at the Faculty of Economics. Also, he is the Academic Coordinator of Mobility for the Degree in Tourism and the Degree in Finance and Accounting, and is a member of the Academic Coordination Committee of the Master’s Degree in Accounting, Auditing and Management Control.