Teaching

I have been on SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Dean's Teaching Honour List (Top Faculty) for both Undergraduate and Postgraduate teachings. In 2018 I was nominated for SMU's Most Promising Teacher Award. 

Case Development:

1. Ant Fortune: Providing Universal Wealth Management Services in China (with CW Chan), SMU Case 22-0029

2. Alibaba Cainiao's Smart Green Logistics Strategy: Good for the Earth, Good for the Business (with Cheah Sin Mei), SMU Case 21-0027

3. Pinduoduo: Driving e-Commerce in Rural China to Improve Farmers' Livehood (with Cheah Sin Mei), SMU Case 20-0043

4. Century Galaxy Group: The Price of Compassion (with Tzu-kuan Chiu and Jialun Wang), SMU Case 20-0023

5. Ant Financial: The Road to Financial Inclusion in China through QR Codes and Technology-as-a-Service (with Jialun Wang, Gabriel Lim, Cheah Sin Mei and Tzu-Kuan Chiu), SMU Case 20-0005

6. Music Securities: Making an Impact through Crowdfunding (with Anant Kapoor, Bihong Huang and Dave Luo Jia Xuan), SMU Case 19-0042

7. Artepharm: Commercialising the Malaria Cure in Africa (with Adina Wong, Han Jiang and Dongning Yang), SMU Case 19-0024

8. Mobike: A Worthy Bike-Sharing Unicorn? (with CW Chan), SMU Case 19-0014

9. Growing a Global Forest: Ant Financial, Alipay, and the Ant Forest (with Ryan Merrill, Yang  Lan, Adina Wong, Hannah Chang), SMU Case 19-0019

10. Ant Fortune: Providing Universal Wealth Management Services in China (with CW Chan), SMU Case 22-0029

Teaching at Singapore Management University:

Executive-level:

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Introduction to Carbon Markets Programme (program director, moderator, instructor for various sessions)

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) New Energy Trends Programme (instructor for session on "Impact Measurement & Reporting")

• Growing Infrastructure Programme (instructor for sessions on "Green Bonds and ESG Ratings", "Green Finance", "Impact-Weighted Accounts")

• Great Eastern Learning with Impact Programme (instructor for sessions on "Sustainability")

• GREAT Leader's Alumni Programme (instructor for sessions on "ESG")

• AXSI Digital Finance Leadership Programme (instructor for sessions on "Towards Sustainable and Green Financing Techniques")

• SMU-Stewardship Asia Stewardship Advantage Programme (instructor for a session on "Green Financing for Sustainable Businesses")

• Maybank Indonesia (instructor for a session on "Sustainable Finance and ESG for Shariah Banking")

• EY Entrepreneur of the Year Ireland CEO Retreat (instructor for a session on "Tomorrow's Impact, Today's Investment")

• Sustainability and Impact Investing (Business Family Institute Workshop for Private Bankers on Family Offices)

• Financing Innovation (instructor for SMU DBS/Doctor of Innovation course), June 2020, 2022

• Corporate Finance II (instructor for SMU PhD General Management (professional doctorate) course), May 2019, December 2020, May 2022, December 2023

• Corporate Finance Theory and Applied Research (co-instructor for SMU-SJTU DBA course), July 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

• Multiple training sessions for various programmes at SMU, Civil Service College, etc.

Graduate-level:

• FinTech Essentials - New Venture Financing (instructor for MSc in Applied Finance course - one lecture only), spring 2019, 2020 (full-time)

• Sustainable Finance (instructor for MSc in Management - Sustainability Track), 2020, 2021, 2023

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Investing (instructor for MSc in Applied Finance course), spring 2017 (full-time), fall 2017 (part-time), spring 2018 (full-time & part-time), spring 2019 (full-time), spring 2020 (full-time & part-time), spring 2021 (full-time)

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• Research Topics in Finance (co-instructor for PhD in Business (Finance) course)

• PhD Pro-Seminar (coordinator for PhD in Business (Finance) course)

• Applied Econometrics for Social Science Research (instructor for university-wide PhD course)

Undergraduate-level:

• Sustainable Finance (instructor for BBA course), spring & fall, 2019; fall 2020; spring 2022; spring 2023

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• Entrepreneurial Finance (instructor for BBA course), spring 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019; fall 2019

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  • Academic reading list

External courses:

• Civil Service College (various training sessions)

• SMU Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship - SMU-PEELI Rural Entrepreneurship Program (instructor for the "Fund Raising" module)

• SMU Academy - Earn & Learn Program Specialist Course (instructor for Entrepreneurial Finance - Temasek Polytechnic students), November 2019 

• SMU Academy on Impact Investing (guest lecturer), March 2018

Teaching at Tilburg University:

• Finance II (TA for BSc course), fall 2012; fall 2013

• Financial History and Intermediate (TA for BSc course)

• Investment Analysis (TA for MSc course)

• Entrepreneurial Finance (TA for MSc course)

• Academic Skills: Finance (Pre-master course), fall 2013; fall 2014

  • Supervised 13 students to write academic essays

• Bachelor thesis supervision, spring 2013; spring 2014; spring 2015

  • Supervised 11 students in spring 2013, 7 students in spring 2014, 3 students in spring 2015.