Our Speakers | Biography
Dr. Chan Jin Hooi
Senior Lecturer, Strategy, Operations and Systems Management
Department of Systems Management and Strategy
Business School, University of Greewich, UK
Dr Chan has about 20 years of extensive industry and academic experience across many regions globally. He holds a PhD in Management Studies awarded by Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He also received a MPhil degree in Sustainable Development under a Cambridge-MIT programme and a master degree in environmental management from University of Malaya. He was a Shell-Centenary-Chevening Scholar and ESRC Cambridge Commonwealth Trust- Dorothy Hodgkin Scholar at University of Cambridge.
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Dr Chan’s research focuses on policy and industrial structure of emerging sectors where innovation and entrepreneurship activities are prominent. He has a great passion for sectors with strong aspects of sustainability and social impacts. He has examined the development and growth of bio-energy, clean-technology, creative and cultural sectors. Currently, Dr Chan is working on a new project (as the Principal Investigator), funded by Newton Fund - ESRC UK (valued at £120,137), further information is available: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=ES%2FP010377%2F1.
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Dr Chan is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy of UK. Since 2001, he has involved extensively in delivery teaching in a number of universities such as University of Cambridge, Coventry University, Greenwich University and University of Malaya. He has been teaching many subjects, e.g. innovation, entrepreneurship, research methods, business strategy, energy business and policy, international business, environmental management and philosophy, energy management, and environment impact assessment. He is regularly being invited to deliver guest lecture at top universities worldwide such as at Zhejiang University, Beijing Normal University, Minzu University of China.
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Since 1996, Dr Chan also has an extensive international business experience across Asia, Europe and Africa. Dr Chan has experience in developing and managing multi-million green energy projects and managed international business offices across Asia. In recognition of his professional achievements and experience, he was awarded Chartered Engineer And Chartered Environmentalist by respective professional institutions in the UK.
In this conference, he will be talking about Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Biodiversity Businesses.