Dr. Bernard Lew Shian Loong

Professor Lew is currently an Advisor for the HELP APEL.Q DBA and has served as a Moderator for the HELP APEL.Q MBA and is the Program Leader for Master of Entrepreneurship.

In 1997, in the wake of the Asian Financial Crisis, Dr Lew embarked on an academic career after completing a BSc (Econ) from the University of London. In 2000, he took a Master’s in Financial Economics at UPM, investigating the correlation between size, book-to-market ratio and the portfolio returns of Malaysian industrial stocks.

His 2012 PhD thesis stressed the need for an algorithmic representation of urban destination resilience, while advancing agent-based computational modelling of tourist destinations.

His on-going interests is in market design and entrepreneurial ecosystem resilience which is evident in the postgraduate courses he facilitates on entrepreneurial and current issues in economics. Outside his academic pursuits, Professor Lew pursues his interests in algorithmic composition.