Rate My Professor Yuen Teen Mak

Yuen Teen Mak is Professor (Practice) of Accounting at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS), and a former Vice Dean of the School. He holds First Class Honours, Masters and PhD degrees in accounting and finance from Victoria University and is a Fellow of CPA Australia. Mak is the founding director of the Centre for Investor Protection at NUS and has held Asia-Pacific and Singapore heads of research positions at major consulting firms. His academic work centers on corporate governance, and he teaches corporate governance at NUS while conducting training programs for regulators, directors and other professionals in Singapore and the region.

Mak has served on multiple Singapore corporate governance committees responsible for developing and revising the Code of Corporate Governance for listed companies, including the original 2000 committee and the 2018 revision, and he currently serves on the Corporate Governance Advisory Committee under the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He previously chaired subcommittees of the Charity Council that developed and revised the code of governance for charities and served on the audit advisory committees of the United Nations Population Fund and UN Women. Mak developed the Governance and Transparency Index covering Singapore listed companies and the Governance Index for Trusts for REITs and business trusts. He authored the book “From Conformance to Performance: Best Corporate Governance Practices for Asian companies” published in 2005 and has edited annual collections of Asian and international corporate governance case studies since 2012. His awards include the Corporate Governance Excellence Award from the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) in 2014, recognition as a CG Pioneer by the Singapore Institute of Directors in 2015, and a Recognition Award from the Minority Shareholders Watchdog Group in Malaysia in 2015. Professional Email: null