Biography Brief 

Graduated with a PhD in Financial Economics from Stanford University, Professor Lim has worked in universities for over 37 years after an initial posting with the Singapore Administrative Service. He was OUB Chair Professor at Singapore Management University and also received the Distinguished Educator Award. He teaches and researches in the areas of quantitative finance, financial economics, financial econometrics, and applied probability and statistics. He had consulted for banks and companies in the areas of risk management and project valuation. He had also been actively involved in various aspects of university business including being Vice-Provost, Interim Dean of Business School, Associate Dean, Vice-Dean, Sub-Dean, Head of Department, Journal Editor, Director of University level Research Centre, Director of Degree Programs, Faculty Senate Chair, Chair of University Task Force, Organizer of International Conferences, Professional Society President, Advisory Board Member, External Academic Advisor of international associations and schools, and others. He had taught in various financial executive development courses at SMU, NUS, IBF, MIS, and others. He publishes widely in various international refereed journals such as Quantitative Finance, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Commodity Markets, Journal of Risk, Journal of Banking and Finance, ASTIN Bulletin, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Finance and Stochastics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Derivatives Research, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Shipping and Trade, Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analyst Journal, European Journal of Operations Research, Decision Sciences, Statistics and Computing, Intelligent Data Analysis, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Statistics  and many others. He is on the editorial boards of a number of international finance and business journals. He has written three books on “Financial Valuation and Econometrics” and “Probability and Finance Theory” published by World Scientific Press and "Theory and Econometrics of Financial Asset Pricing" by De Gruyter.  He was awarded a Public Administration Medal (Silver) by the President of the Republic of Singapore.