The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) appoints Professor Lee Chew Ging as its Dean of Arts and Social Sciences effective 1 September 2016.
Professor Lee, who is the current Dean of Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) Malaysia succeeds Professor Fon Sim Ong who will be assuming the role of Vice Provost (Teaching and Learning) at UNMC.
“I am delighted that Professor Lee has been appointed as the new Dean of Arts and Social Sciences. He is an outstanding academic leader with extensive experience in UNMC since its earliest days. He has provided excellent leadership to the Business School over the past six years and is widely respected in the business school community in Malaysia and beyond,” said Professor Christine Ennew, CEO and Provost of UNMC.
Professor Lee joined UNMC in 2000 as one of the pioneering batch of staff at NUBS Malaysia. He had held several academic and administrative positions within the University, including Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning before being appointed as the Dean of NUBS Malaysia in 2011.
Currently, he is a member of the Senate of The University of Nottingham, which is the academic authority of the University. He has served as an expert to assist Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) to develop Programme Standards for subject area: Business Studies. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.
Under his steadfast leadership, NUBS Malaysia secured reaccreditations from the European Foundation for Management Development Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and the Association of MBAs (AMBA). Recently, together with the Dean of NUBS UK and the Dean of NUBS China, he successfully led NUBS to become one of only a few globally selected business schools which holds the full five-year EQUIS accreditation.
Professor Lee graduated from the National University of Singapore. His research interests include sports economics, economics of development and economics of tourism. He has been published widely in prestigious international journals such as Tourism Management and International Journal of Hospitality Management.
“The world is highly interconnected. We can understand challenges around us and appreciate the complex interactions between political, business, cultural, and economic forces if a broad based and multi-disciplinary approach to learning and thinking is adopted. Within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, a multi-disciplinary learning environment is fostered to allow our students to focus on one of our core disciplines – applied psychology, business, communication studies, economics, education, English literature and international relations, while still allowing them to explore the knowledge of other disciplines.
“Adopting a holistic and integrative approach, we aim to provide a well-rounded education to produce new generation of graduates, who will assume senior leadership and management roles in different private and public organisations. I am really looking forward to the opportunities and challenges as the incoming Dean of this very vibrant and dynamic faculty,” Professor Lee said.
More information is available from Josephine Dionisappu, PR & Communications Manager at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus on josephine.dionisappu@nottingham.edu.my.
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Notes to editors: The University of Nottingham has 43,000 students and is ‘the nearest Britain has to a truly global university, with a “distinct” approach to internationalisation, which rests on those full-scale campuses in China and Malaysia, as well as a large presence in its home city.’ (Times Good University Guide 2016).
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Posted on 14th July 2016