Professor Bernard Yeung is Emeritus and Founding President of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research and Emeritus Professor at NUS- Business School. He is also a Visiting Chair Professor and Yangtze River Scholar at the Southern University of Science and Technology.
From 2008 to 2023, Professor Yeung was the Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor in Finance and Strategic Management at NUS-Business School. He was also the President of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research from 2003 to 2023. He was Dean of NUS-Business School from 2008 to 2019. Before joining NUS, he was the Abraham Krasnoff Professor in Global Business, Economics, and Management at New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business and the Director of the NYU China House. From 1988 to 1999, he taught at the University of Michigan and at the University of Alberta from 1983 to 1988.
Professor Yeung has published widely cited work in top-tier academic journals covering finance, economics, strategy, and international business. He has more than 32,000 citations.
He was awarded the Public Administration Silver Medal (2018) in Singapore, the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award (2013) from the Academy of Management, and is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business.
Professor Yeung was a member of the Economic Strategies Committee in Singapore (2009), a member of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in Singapore (2016-2018), and a member of the Financial Research Council of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (2010 -2013).
Professor Yeung sits on the Advisory Committee of the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica. Professor Yeung also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Bank of China (BOC) Aviation Limited since 2016 and the Advisory Board of Healthway Medical Corporation Ltd (2018-2023).
Professor Yeung received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Western Ontario and his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.