Lee Kin Wai

Lee Kin Wai is Associate Professor of Accounting at Nanyang Business School in Nanyang Technological University. He holds a First Class Honours Degree (with University Medal) in Accounting, MBA (distinction in finance) and PhD degree. He is a member of Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants and American Accounting Association. Dr. Lee has served as the Deputy Chairman of the Singapore Shell Cooperative, a member of Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountant Journal Editorial Advisory Panel, an editor of Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance, a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Singapore and a member of Singapore Compact for Corporate Social Responsibility.

Prior to joining academia, Dr. Lee had extensive experience in accounting and finance and was the Group Accounting Manager in a publicly listed multinational corporation. Dr. Lee specializes in financial statement analysis, capital market research in accounting, corporate governance and valuation. His research on corporate governance and financial accounting standards has been published in international accounting and finance journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, International Journal of Business & Journal of Multinational Financial Management. He conducts courses at the undergraduate and MBA levels, and executive seminars for organizations such as Shell, Mitsui, Panasonic, Tyco, Merck, Singapore Technologies Engineering, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Indonesia Capital Market Supervisory Agency and Asia-Pacific Bankers Club. In 2007, he received the Teacher of the Year Award for the MBA program. In 2010, he received the Teacher of the Year Award for the Accountancy program in Nanyang Business School. In 2010, he received the Nanyang Award for Teaching Excellence at Nanyang Technological University. In 2018, he received the Teaching Excellence Award at Nanyang Business School and Teacher of the Year Award (Accountancy) at Nanyang Technological University. In 2019, he received Teacher of the Year award at Masters of Science (Accounting) programme and the Nanyang Education Award in Nanyang Technological University.

Education

• Nanyang Technological University Singapore Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Accounting

• University of Sydney Bachelor of Economics (Honours), Accounting