Lee Kin Wai is Associate Professor of Accounting at Nanyang Business School in Nanyang Technological University. He holds a First Class Honours Degree (with University Medal) in Accounting, MBA (distinction in finance) and Phd degree. He is a member of Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Singapore, Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants and American Accounting Association. Dr. Lee has served as the Deputy Chairman of the Singapore Shell Cooperative, a member of Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountant Journal Editorial Advisory Panel, an editor of Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance, a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Singapore and a member of Singapore Compact for Corporate Social Responsibility.

Prior to joining academia, Dr. Lee had extensive experience in accounting and finance and was the Group Accounting Manager in a publicly listed multinational corporation. Dr. Lee specializes in financial statement analysis, capital market research in accounting, corporate governance and valuation. His research on corporate governance and financial accounting standards has been published in international accounting and finance journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, Singapore Accountant and Accounting and Finance Journal and the business press such as Business Times and Straits Times. In 2007, he received the Teacher of the Year Award for the MBA programme. In 2010, he received the Teacher of the Year Award (Accounting). In 2010, he received the Nanyang Award for Excellence In Teaching by Nanyang Technological University. In 2018, he received the Teaching Excellence Award at Nanyang Business School and Teacher of the Year Award (Accountancy) at Nanyang Technological University. In 2019, he received the Teaching of the Year Award (Masters of Science in Accountancy) at Nanyang Business School and Nanyang Education Award (School) at Nanyang Technological University. In 2021, he received Nanyang Education Award (College) at Nanyang Technological University.