Revitalising Asean Economies In A Post-covid-19 World: Socioeconomic Issues In The New Normal

Hooi Hooi Lean is a professor at the School of Social Sciences (Economics Program), Universiti Sains Malaysia. She obtained her Ph.D from National University of Singapore and was a post-doctoral fellow to the Department of Economics at Monash University, Australia. Prof. Lean is the Top Research Scientists Malaysia by Academy of Sciences Malaysia in 2018, the winner of National Academic Award 2015 and Malaysia’s Research Star Award 2017 by Ministry of Higher Education. Dr Lean serves as associate editor of Singapore Economic Review, Frontiers in Energy, International Journal of Economics & Management and Malaysian Journal of Economics; editor of Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business, Energy Research Letters and Asian Journal of Economics and Finance. 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 “Sangga Sangjung” & “Hadiah Sanjungan” Award for Publication from Universiti Sains Malaysia since 2006 and received research grants from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia and Research Council United Kingdom.