Mak Yuen Teen

Yuen Teen Mak is Professor (Practice) of Accounting at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS). He was a former Vice Dean of the School and the founder of the first corporate governance centre in Singapore at NUS. He holds first class honours, master and PhD degrees in accounting and finance, and is a fellow of CPA Australia.

Prof Mak served on three of the four corporate governance committees set up by the Singapore authorities to develop and revise the code of corporate governance for listed companies, including the first committee in 2000 and the most recent committee which released the 2018 Singapore Code. He currently serves on the Corporate Governance Advisory Committee under the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). 

He was a member of the audit advisory committees of two UN funds based in New York. He is currently a member of the international advisory board of the Hawkamah Insitute of Corporate Governance in Dubai and a senior advisor of the Vietnam Independent Directors Association.

Prof Mak regularly conducts training for directors, regulators and other professionals. He taught in the mandatory accreditation programme for first-time directors in Malaysia, and currently teaches programmes for directors of listed companies, banks and insurance companies in Malaysia and on topics such as nominating committees, remuneration committees, governance in company groups, corporate governance and sustainability, and the board’s value creation and compliance roles.

Prof Mak developed the first corporate governance rating for Singapore companies and the first Singapore governance rating for REITs and business trusts. He was nominated by MAS as the Singapore representative in the development of the ASEAN CG Scorecard.

He is one of only two individuals in Singapore to have received the Corporate Governance Excellence Award from the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) for his contributions to improving corporate governance in Singapore. The Singapore Institute of Directors also recognised him as a CG Pioneer in 2015. He also received the corporate governance excellence award from the Minority Shareholders Watchdog Group in Malaysia for his contributions to corporate governance in the region.