• Researcher - Cheong Kee Cheok 张淇绰

Researcher - Cheong Kee Cheok 张淇绰

Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics. Faculty of Economics and Administration

B. A. (Hons), University of Malaya (UM)

Ph. D., London School of Economics

Email: cheongkeecheok@um.edu.my
Tel No.: 03-79673701

张淇绰博士现为马来亚大学经济学院高级研究员。他的本科完成于马来亚大学，随后在英国伦敦大学经济学院考获博士学位。毕业返国后，他旋即加入马大经济学院并受委为副院长。后擢升为院长。于马大服务十年后，张博士转任世界银行的经济研究员，经十六载始以高级经济研究员身份离开。在那里，他起初兼任中国与越南经济发展所主任，最终则升至世界银行研究所主任。自1997年归国，他持续担任世银及联合国多个单位的经济顾问。因为工作的关系，他时常周游于中国、越南、柬埔寨、寮国、蒙古及朝鲜等国。张博士的研究兴趣是：经济发展、经济体的变迁、就业与贫穷以及国际经济关系等。

Date of Birth:  January 25, 1945                    
Nationality:     Malaysian
Marital Status: Married, with two children

Professional Experience

2017 – present    Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya

2010 – 2016    Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya
Major research areas include human capital and education, economic and strategic relations with special reference to Southeast Asia and China and the role of the Chinese overseas.  Supervision of PhD and Masters students and delivery of lectures in the PhD and M Ec programs.

2006 – 2009    Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya
Delivered lectures to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

1997-present    Consultant, World Bank and UNDP
Most recent assignment – resource expert and main author of SABER Workforce Development Country Report for Malaysia.  Other consultancy assignments include training program development and delivery in Cambodia, China, and Vietnam.  These assignments are carried over from previous responsibilities as senior economist in the World Bank’s Economic Development Institute.  As UNDP consultant, developed the first training program in economic management for the Democratic Republic of Korea.  Served as resource person in many programs, including Nippon Foundation’s Central Asia Training Project under the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya.

1989-1996    Senior Economist, World Bank
As senior economist in the World Bank’s Economic Development Institute,  coordinated training programs in China, Vietnam and Cambodia.  In China, helped establish 4 training networks in public finance, health economics, transport and agriculture.  Was part of two World Bank teams to prepare, appraise and supervise two technical assistance loans to China for human resource development.  Responsibility in these teams included training needs assessment and program development.  In Vietnam, developed and managed a UNDP-financed project to strengthen the government’s economic management capacity.  The project, concluded in 1996, was one of UNDP’s most successful ever.  In Cambodia, worked closely with the Ministry of Economy and Finance to establish the Economic and Finance Institute.  Other responsibilities in EDI included preparation and delivery of training programs in Mongolia, Lao PDR, and Moldova.

1981-1988    Economist, World Bank
Responsibility as part of the team for Pakistan was to evaluate the country’s macroeconomic performance, undertake macroeconomic projections, as well as monitor the performance of the agriculture sector.  Worked on structural adjustment and sector adjustment loans for the country, and also authored country economic reports and studies on poverty, employment, and public administration.

1972-1981    Lecturer, then Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
From 1974 to 1976, and from 1976 to 1981, was respectively Deputy Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya. In these positions, managed the faculty’s seven divisions and 100 staff and established the University’s Population Research Unit.  As associate professor, also taught economics and econometrics to about 300 students annually in the second and final years of the Bachelor of Economics program.  Served on government committees, including the Economic Planning Unit; Prime Minister’s Department, the Treasury, Ministry of Finance, and the National Family Planning Board.  Was also resource person for multilateral organizations, including ESCAP, the ILO, and the Southeast Asia Ministries of Education Organization (SEAMEO).  Published in the areas of macroeconomic models, regional development, industrialization, and demography.  Was a past Vice President and a life member of the Malaysian Economics Association.

 

Publications in Journals

  1. Yew, S.Y., Yong, C.C., Cheong, K.C. & Tey, N.P. (2017). “Does financial education matter? Education literacy among undergraduates in Malaysia”. Institutions and Economies 9(1): 43 – 60.

  2. Li Ran and Cheong Kee Cheok (2016). “How much ‘state’ is in China’s state enterprises? A case study of ZTE Corporation in an era of reform”. International Journal of China Studies 7(3): 245 – 270.

  3. Kee-Cheok Cheong, Christopher Hill and Yin-Cheng Leong (2016). “Malaysia’s education policies and the law of unintended consequences”. Journal of International and Comparative Education 5(2): 73 – 85.

  4. Zhang Cheng, Cheong Kee Cheok, Li Ran and Rajah Rasiah (2016). “Does governance reform help? The impact of split-share structure reform on corporate board structure in Chinese manufacturing enterprises”. Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 53(2): 297 – 313.

  5. Zhang Chen, Cheong Kee Cheok and Rajah Rasiah (2016). “Corporate tax avoidance and performance: evidence from China’s listed companies”. Institutions and Economies 8(3): 61 – 83.

  6. Zhang Cheng, Cheong Kee Cheok and Rajah Rasiah (2016). “Effective corporate structure and agency problems: evidence from China’s economic transition”. International Journal of China Studies 7(2): 199 – 214.

  7. Kee Cheok Cheong, Chan Yuan Wong and Kim Leng Goh (2016). “Technology catch-up with Chinese characteristics: what can Southeast Asia learn from China?” The Round Table Published online November 2, 2016. DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2016.1246853.

  8. Gomez, Edmund Terence, Cheong Kee Cheok and Vamsi Vakulabharanam (2016) “Introduction”, The Round Table, 105(6): 597-612.

  9. Ran Li, Qianyi Wang and Kee-Cheok Cheong (2016). “Quanzhou: reclaiming a glorious past”. Cities 50: 168 – 179.

  10. Ran Li, Qianyi Wang and Kee-Cheok Cheong (2016). “From obscurity to global prominence: Yiwu as an international trade hub”. Cities 53: 8 – 17.

  11. Kee-Cheok Cheong, Christopher Hill, Yin-Cheng Leong and Chen Zhang (2016). “Education as a journey or as a destination? Interpreting graduates’ and employers’ perceptions – a Malaysian case study”.  Studies in Higher Education, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2016.1196351, published online July 4.

  12. Kee-Cheok Cheong and Kiong-Hock Lee (2016). “Malaysia’s education crisis – can TVET help?” Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 53 (1): 115 – 134.

  13. Thillainathan Ramasamy and Kee-Cheok Cheong (2016). “Malaysia’s New Economic Policy, growth and distribution: revisiting the debate”, Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 53 (1): 51 – 68.

  14. Kee-Cheok Cheong (2016). “Book Review:  Mokhzani, A.R. Credit in a Malay Peasant Economy. Kuala Lumpur: Arus Intelek and Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya”. Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 53 (1): 165 – 168.

  15. Zhang Chen, Cheong Kee Cheok and Rajah Rasiah (2016). “Corporate tax avoidance and performance: evidence from China’s listed companies”, Institutions and Economies 8 (3): 61 – 83.

  16. Cheong Kee Cheok (2016). “Narratives on Malaysia’s contemporary issues”, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies 32 (3): 402 – 410.

  17. Gomez, Edmund Terence and Kee-Cheok Cheong (2016). “NGOs in banking: institutional transformation and ownership and control of Cambodia’s ACLEDA Bank”. Asia Pacific Social Science Review 16 (1): 128 -141.

  18. Kee-Cheok Cheong, Poh-Ping Lee and Kam-Hing Lee (2015). “Developers and Speculators: Housing, Ethnic Chinese Business and the Asian Financial Crisis in Malaysia”, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 44(4): 616-644.

  19. Kee-Cheok Cheong, Poh-Ping Lee and Kam-Hing Lee (2015) “The internationalization of family firms: Case histories of two Chinese overseas family firms”, Business History 57(6): 841 – 861.

  20. Kee-Cheok Cheong, Christopher Hill, Rozilini Fernandez-Chung and Yin-Ching Leong (2015) “Employing the ‘unemployable’: employer perceptions of Malaysian graduates”, Studies in Higher Education. Published online April 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1034260

  21. Siew-Yong Yew, Chen-Chen Yong and Kee-Cheok Cheong (2015). “The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Direct Investment on Exports within ASEAN5”, Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 52 (1): 21 – 33.

  22. Wang Qianyi, Zhang Miao and Cheong Kee Cheok (2014). “Stakeholders’ Perspectives of China’s Land Consolidation Program: A Case Study of Dongnan Village, Shandong Province”, Habitat International 43: 172-80.

  23. Wang Qianyi, Zhang Miao and Cheong Kee Cheok (2014). “City profile - Shouguang”, Cities 40: 70 – 81.

  24. Rajah Rasiah, Kee-Cheok Cheong and Richard Doner (2014). “Southeast Asia and the Asian and Global Financial Crises”, Journal of Contemporary Asia, published online June 30.

  25. Sabbaghpoor, Mina, Kee-Cheok Cheong, and Su-Fei Yap (2014). “Reopening the debate on Globalization and Economic Growth through Technology Transfer”, Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 51 (2): 91-107.

  26. Chan-Yuan Wong and Kee-Cheok Cheong (2014). Diffusion of Catching-up Industrialization Strategies: The Dynamics of East Asia’s Policy Learning Process”, Journal of Comparative Asian Development, 13(3): 369 – 404.

  27. Wan Nur Ibtisam Wan Ismail, Raja Noriza Raja Ariffin and Cheong Kee Cheok (2014). “Human Trafficking in Malaysia: Bureaucratic Challenges in Policy Implementation”, Administration & Society, DOI: 10.1177/0095399714532271, published online May 1.

  28. Kee-Cheok Cheong and Kim-Leng Goh (2013). “Hong Kong as Charter City Prototype: When Concept Meets Reality”, Cities, 35: 100-103.

  29. Lee Kam Hing, Lee Poh Ping and Cheong Kee Cheok (2013). “Robert Kuok: Family, dialect and state”, Australian Economic History review, 53 (3): 1-24.

  30. Cheong Kee Cheok, Lee Kam Hing and Lee Poh Ping (2013). “Surviving Financial Crises: the Chinese Overseas in Malaysia During the Great Depression and Asian Financial Crisis”, Journal of Contemporary Asia 45(1): 26 – 47.

  31. Cheong Kee Cheok, Li Ran, Zhang Miao and Tan Eu Chye (2014). “China’s state enterprises, economic growth and distribution: a revisionist view” China An International Journal 12 (1): 132-152.

  32. Kee-Cheok Cheong, Kam-Hing Lee, & Poh-Ping Lee (2014). “Global economic crises, migration and remittances: China and Southeast Asia during the Great Depression of the 1930s”. Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 51 (Special Issue): 45-55.

  33. Shyamala Nagaraj, Kim-Leng Goh, Kee-Cheok Cheong, Nai-Peng Tey & Rohaha Jani. (2014). “Gender imbalance in educational attainment and labour dynamics: Evidence from Malaysia”. Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 51 (Special Issue): 127-145.

  34. Yew Siew Yong and Cheong Kee Cheok (2013). “Ageing and the economic welfare of Southeast Asian nations”. Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 50 (2): 101-106

  35. Kee-Cheok Cheong and Kim-Leng Goh (2013). “Hong Kong as Charter City prototype: When concept meets reality”. Cities 35: 100-103.

  36. Lee Kam Heng, Cheong Kee Cheok and Lee Poh Ping (2013). “Robert Kuok: Family, dialect and state in the making of a Malaysian magnate”. Australian Economic History Review 53 (3): 1 24.

  37. Cheong Kee Cheok, Christopher Hill, Leong Yin Ching and Rozilini Fernandez-Chung (2013). “TNE – transnational education or tensions between national and external? A case study of Malaysia”. Studies in Higher Education 38. Published online January 14.

  38. Cheong Kee Cheok, Lee Kam Hing and Lee Poh Ping (2012). “Chinese overseas remittances to China: The perspective from Southeast Asia”. Journal of Contemporary Asia 43 (1): 75 101.

  39. Siti Muliana Samsi, Zarinah Yusof and Kee-Cheok Cheong (2012) “Linkages between the real sector and financial sector: the case of Malaysia”, Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance, 8 (1): 93 – 113.

  40. Cheong Kee Cheok, Lee Poh Ping and Lee Kam Hing (2011). “Learning from the China Model: What is in it for Vietnam’s Economic Development?” Issues and Studies 47 (4): 153-176.

  41. Kee-Cheok Cheong, P.M. Duc and N. Thang (2010). Vietnam in the Next Decade and Beyond: Key Strategic Issues, Hanoi: The Gioi Press.

  42. Kee-Cheok Cheong (2010). “Comment: Charter cities – An idea whose time has come or should have one?” Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 47 (2): 165-168.

  43. Cheong Kee Cheok, V. Selvaratnam and K.L. Goh (2011). “Education and, Human Capital Formation in Malaysia”, in Rasiah, R. (ed.). Malaysia in the Twenty-First Century, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

  44. Cheong Kee Cheok, S. Nagaraj and K.H. Lee (2009). “Counting ethnicity: The New Economic Policy and social integration”. Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 46 (1): 33-52.

  45. Cheong Kee Cheok (2007). “The return of Soros: Revisiting Malaysian ‘facts’ about the Asian Crisis”. Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 44 (2): 107-115.

Chapters in Books

  1. Kee-Cheok Cheong, Siew Yong Yew and Chen-Chen Yong (2017). “The future of ASEAN-China trade relations”. In Lowell Dittmer and Chow Bing Ngeow (eds.) Southeast Asia and China: A Contest in Mutual Socialization, Singapore: World Scientific, Chapter 9, pp. 187 – 209.

  2. Kee-Cheok Cheong and Ghanty, Sam (2017). “Higher education, transnational education and the evolution of the Cambodian education system”. In Hill, Christopher and Fernandez-Chung, Rozilini (eds) Higher Education in the Asian Century: The European Legacy and the Future of Transnational Education in the ASEAN Region, Routledge: Abingdon, Chapter 2, pp. 21 – 40.

  3. Kee-Cheok Cheong, Hwok-Aun Lee, Kuppusamy Singaravelloo and Abdillah Noh (2016). “Technical Vocational education and training in Malaysia: from policy to implementation”.  In Malakolunthu, Suseela and Rengasamy, Nagappan,. (2017). Policy Discourses in Malaysian Education: A Nation in the Making, Routledge: Abingdon, Chapter 6, pp. 86 - 104

  4. Cheong Kee Cheok, Tey Nai Peng and Rajah Rasiah (2016). “The population development relationship in Malaysia”. In Tey Nai Peng, Cheong Kee Cheok and Rajah Rasiah (eds.) Revisiting Malaysia’s Population-Development Nexus – The Past in its Future, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, pp. 1 – 14.

  5. Cheong Kee Cheok, Goh Kim Leng, Abdillah Noh, Kuppusamy Singaravelloo and Lee Hwok Aun (2016), “Population, human capital and development – the Malaysian experience”. In Tey Nai Peng, Cheong Kee Cheok and Rajah Rasiah (eds.) Revisiting Malaysia’s Population-Development Nexus – The Past in its Future, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, pp. 81 – 98.

  6. Edmund Terence Gomez, Francois Bafoil and Kee-Cheok Cheong (2015). “Introduction: The State’s Return to Business: Government-linked Companies in the Post-crisis Global Economy”, in Gomez, Bafoil and Cheong (Eds.). Government-Linked Companies and Sustainable, Equitable Development, Abingdon: Routledge.

  7. Kee-Cheok Cheong, Ran Li and Miao Zhang (2015). “The Chinese State, State Enterprises and the Global Crisis”, Chapter 2 of Gomez, Bafoil and Cheong (Eds.). Government-Linked Companies and Sustainable, Equitable Development, Abingdon: Routledge.

  8. Cheong Kee Cheok (2009). “China, Southeast Asia and the global economy: An Update”, in Yeoh, E.K.K. (ed.). Regional Political Economy of China Ascendant, Kuala Lumpur: Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya.

Books and Reports

  1. Tey Nai Peng, Cheong Kee Cheok and Rajah Rasiah (eds.) (2016). Revisiting Malaysia’s Population-Development Nexus – The Past in its Future, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press.

  2. Edmund Terence Gomez, Francois Bafoil and Kee-Cheok Cheong (Eds.) (2015). Government-Linked Companies and Sustainable, Equitable Development, Abingdon: Routledge.

  3. Pham Minh Duc, Deepak Mishra and Kee Cheok Cheong (2013). Trade Facilitation, Value Creation and Economic Growth in Vietnam, in 3 volumes, Hanoi: World Bank, June.

  4. Kee-Cheok Cheong, Abdillah Noh, Kuppusamy Singaravello and Hwok-Aun Lee (2013). Malaysia Workforce Development, SABER Country Report, Washington DC: World Bank.