Dr. Hooi Hooi Lean is a professor at the School of Social Sciences (Economics Program), Universiti Sains . She obtained her Honors Bachelor Degree of Economics majoring in Statistics from University Malaya, Master of Science (Statistics) from Universiti Sains Malaysia and Ph.D (Economics) from the National University of Singapore. She served as a post-doctoral visiting scholar to the Department of Economics at Monash University, . Dr. Lean has been a visiting scholar at SungKyunKwan University (Korea), Tamkang University (), CEREFIGE Universitè Nancy 2 (France), Auckland University of Technology (), Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and University of Rennes 2 (France).

Prof. Lean has authored more than 100 articles in professional journals and book chapters. Her works have been published in many reputed international journals. Her H-index is 24 and there are 2139 citations to her works on Google Scholar. She has also presented on various topics at many major international conferences held in Australia, , China, France, Germany, , Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, and Vietnam. In addition to these talks in the academic circuit, she has been invited to give talks to some private corporations, organizations and education institutions. She has also provided consultancy works to the private sector, government agencies and associations.

Prof. Lean is the recipient of the 2014 National Academic Award from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. She is listed in the Who’sWho in the World since 2009 and Researcher of the Week in GDNet East in 2012 for her excellent contributions. She has been awarded the ASEAN-ROK Academic Exchange Fellowship Programme in 2007, the Democratic Pacific Union (DPU) Visiting Fellowship in 2008, the International HERMES Fellowship Programme in 2009 and Faculty Exchange Fellowship from Georg-Simon-Ohm University in 2012. Dr. Lean also won the “Sanggar Sanjung” Excellent Award for Publication 2009-2014, “Hadiah Sanjungan” Best Award for Publication 2006-2011 and Excellent Service Award 2010, 2014 from Universiti Sains Malaysia. Dr. Lean has received the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme and Research University Grant from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia.

Prof. Lean serves as associate editor of Capital Market Review and an editorial board member of East Asian Journal of Business Management and Frontiers in Energy. She has also reviewed more than 100 papers for journals and conference proceedings. She has supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate students and has organized several conferences/seminars/workshops. Besides her work in academic, she also contributes to the various multi-cultural communities in Malaysia and religion. She is holding several private or community based positions such as a committee member of the Rukun Tetangga Kawasan Kulit Lembu (neighborhood area committee), Management Corporation of Medan Samak and the Penang Buddhist Association.