Professor Chew Soon Beng
Professor of Economics
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore


Professor Chew is Professor of Economics and Industrial Relations at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is author of Small Firms in Singapore (Oxford University Press), Trade Unionism in Singapore (McGraw Hill), Employment-Driven Industrial Relations Regimes (Avebury), Values and Lifestyles of Young Singaporeans (Prentice-Hall), and Foreign Enterprises in China: Operation and Management (in Chinese). He has also published in journals such as the Singapore Economic Review, the China Economic Review, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, and the Journal of Advances in Pacific Basin Business Economic and Finance. His current research interests include trade unionism, labour markets analysis, globalization and entrepreneurship.

He has received many awards including Honorary Professorship, Institute of Legislation "Khalkh Juram", Mongolia 2001; Honorary Professorship, Moscow External University of the Humanities, 1997; Singapore National Book Prize, 1996 and his paper in Journal of Enterprising Communities has been awarded Highly Commended Paper in 2009.