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Dr. Hooi Hooi Lean is a Professor of Economics at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. She obtained her Honors Bachelor Degree of Economics majoring in Statistics from the University of Malaya, Master of Science (Statistics) from the Universiti Sains Malaysia and Ph.D (Economics) from the National University of Singapore. She served as a post-doctoral visiting scholar to the Department of Economics at Monash University, Australia. Dr. Lean has been a visiting scholar to a number of prestigious international universities which include SungKyunKwan University (Korea), Tamkang University (Taiwan), CEREFIGE Universitè Nancy 2 (France), Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand), Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and University of Rennes 2 (France).

Prof. Lean has authored more than 100 scholarly articles and academic book chapters. Her works have been published in many reputed international journals and publications. Her H-index is 35 and there are more than 5000 citations to her works on Google Scholar. She has also presented on various topics at many major international conferences held in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, Vietnam etc. In addition to these talks in the academic circuit, she has been invited to give talks to some private corporations, organizations and educational institutions. She has also provided consultancy works to the private sector, government agencies and non-governmental organizations.

Prof. Lean is the Top Research Scientists Malaysia by Academy of Sciences Malaysia in 2018, the winner of National Academic Award 2015 and Malaysia’s Research Star Award 2017 from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. She has been listed in the Who’sWho in the World publication since 2009 and granted the prestigious title of “Researcher of the Week” in GDNet East Asia in 2012 for her excellent contributions. She has been awarded the ASEAN-ROK Academic Exchange Fellowship Programme in 2007, the Democratic Pacific Union (DPU) Visiting Fellowship in 2008, the International HERMES Fellowship Programme in 2009 and Faculty Exchange Fellowship from Georg-Simon-Ohm University in 2012. Dr. Lean also won the “Sanggar Sanjung” Excellent Award for Publication 2009-2017, the “Hadiah Sanjungan” Best Award for Publication 2006-2011 and the Excellent Service Award 2010 & 2014 from the Universiti Sains Malaysia. Dr. Lean has received Newton Research Grant from Research Councils United Kingdom; the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme and Research University Grant from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. Prof. Lean is a Fellow of East Asian Economic Association. She serves as an associate editor for the Singapore Economic Review, Capital Market Review and the International Journal of Economics and Management. She is also an editorial board member of the East Asian Journal of Business Management, Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business and Frontiers in Energy. She is also sitting on the editorial advisory board member of the Indonesian Capital Market Review and the Labuan Bulletin of International Business & Finance. She has reviewed more than 200 papers for various academic journals and received Peer Review Award from Publons in 2018. She has supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate students and has organized several international conferences/seminars/workshops. Besides her work in the academic sphere, she also contributes to the various multi-cultural communities in Malaysia and religious development. She is holding several private or community-based positions such as Consultative Panel of Young Buddhist Association of Malaysia Penang State Liaison Committee, Board of Governor of the Penang Buddhist Association Dharma Sunday School, a committee member of the Rukun Tetangga Kawasan Kulit Lembu (neighborhood area committee), the Management Corporation of Medan Samak and the Penang Buddhist Association.