Debate Adjudicators

Debate Adjudicators

Topic: Dilemma in Workplace : Job Security vs Salary


Debate Adjudicator 1

Ms. Chook Yuh Yng

Designation: Country Manager

Company: JobStreet.com Sdn. Bhd.

Ms Chook Yuh Yng is the Country Manager of JobStreet.com for Malaysia & Singapore Operations.

She has 15 years of working experience in the private sector.

In JobStreet.com, she is in charge of running the Business Operations in Malaysia & Singapore, including the Sales, Marketing, Executive Search and Customer Service Departments; spearheading JobStreet.com towards extending their No. 1 leadership position in the recruitment services industry, in both Malaysia & Singapore. At the same time she also ensures that JobStreet.com upholds the mission of “Improving Lives Through Better Careers”.

Prior to JobStreet.com, she has spent over 10 years in the ICT/ Telco industries with companies such as the Dataprep Group, Renong and Telekom Malaysia where she was involved in diverse roles including Pre Sales, Sales Management, Project Management as well as IT Operations management.

Ms Chook previously graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Master of Engineering and a Bachelor degree in Engineering.

Debate Adjudicator 2

MICHAEL TEOH SU LIM

·         Global Award-Winning Speaker & Trainer

·         Serial Entrepreneur

·         Advisor to various Government Agencies & Global NGOs

Passionate about Talent Development and a global speaker whose ideas have been featured on CNN, BBC World News, the United Nations and many more, Michael Teoh is regarded as a strategist and thought-leader in grooming talents in companies and universities internationally. He served clients like Microsoft, Intel, various government ministries and universities across 30 countries in talent development training and initiatives. He received his education from New Zealand, before furthering his studies to Stanford University and INSEAD on entrepreneurship.

Recognized as a Malaysia Book of Records Holder for having led a global expedition to 22 countries and impacting more than 300,000 lives through his humanitarian and social entrepreneurship projects with governments and companies in 2011, Michael is also honored as Malaysia's National Youth Icon by the Prime Minister and has had his work endorsed by the New Zealand Prime Minister during his university days. He currently serves as a Board Member in the National Student Volunteers Foundation owned by the Malaysian Ministry of Education and he is an awardee of PRESTIGE's Tp 40 Under 40 Awards for Malaysians. He is also a columnist with the New Straits Times and Kowng Wah Yit Poh, where he shares about strategies for talent development.

Now a serial entrepreneur with businesses in the digital publishing, training and project management fields, Michael and his partners have worked with clients like Standard Chartered, Alliance Bank, The Star, Sime Darby, General Electric to name a few in their business ventures. Michael sits on the National Youth Consultative Council appointed by the Minister of Youth & Sports, the Founding Curator's Team for TEDxKL in Malaysia, advisor to the World Youth Government in Geneva and the Executive Chairman of the Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum from France in Malaysia.He can be contacted at www.michaelteoh.com

Debate Adjudicator 3

Dr NurjaanahChew Li Hua 

Dr NurjaanahChew Li Hua is currently the Deputy Director of the International and Corporate Relations Office, University of Malaya, heading the International Unit. Her areas of interest ranges from insurance law and financial regulation on the private law/ commercial area to public health laws & related issues, administration of criminal justice &ethics, cybercrimes, privacy& data protection law & issues, conversion issues and laws& policies governing indigenous peoples &related issues on the public law domain. She obtained both her LLB (Hon)(Mal) and LLM (Mal) from University of Malaya and her PhD (Man) from University of Manchester. More information and publications at http://umexpert.um.edu.my/cv_papar.php.

Debate Adjudicator 4

Alex Ooi

Partner, Audit

BDO Malaysia

Education/Qualification

• Fellow Member of CPA Australia

• Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (“ICAEW”)

• Member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (“MIA”)

• Member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“MICPA”)

• Bachelor of Economics (Accounting), Monash University, Australia

Expertise Summary

Alex Ooi has more than 18 years of financial advisory and assurance experience with one of the Top 5 global professional services firms prior to joining BDO Malaysia. His experience includes statutory audit of public listed companies and multinational corporations, due diligence reviews and feasibility studies, business valuations, internal audit and risk management and acted as financial adviser and/or reporting accountants to public companies in their initial public offering (IPO) and/or corporate and debt restructuring exercises.

Alex is actively involved in IPO exercises and transaction support services of merger and acquisition transactions. He also acts as reporting accountant in debt finance exercises which includes Islamic financial products.

Alex is actively involved in business advisory services such as industry studies,feasibility and viability studies, regulatory due diligence and immigration services to foreign direct investments in Malaysia and Malaysian companies investing outside Malaysia.

Alex participates actively in the accounting profession in Malaysia. He is currently the President of CPA Australia, Malaysia Division and is involved in the Financial Reporting Standards Implementation Committee (FRSIC) of MIA and the Financial Statements Review Committee of MICPA. He is a member of the Policy and Standards Working Committee of the Accountant General’s Department of Malaysia. Alex was a Council Member of MIA from 2009 to 2011.

Country Experience

Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, China and United States of America

Debate Adjudicator 5

Dr. Maya Khemlani David 

Professor Dr. Maya Khemlani David (Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya) received the Linguapax Award in 2007 and   is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, United Kingdom and an Honorary Member of the Foundation of Endangered Languages. As a sociolinguist, Dr. David has a special interest in discourse analysis, languages in Malaysian minority communities, and the role of language in establishing and maintaining national unity within and across cultures.

She is a Visiting Scholar, College for Women and also consultant (ELT) for Kinnaird College, both in Lahore, Pakistan. She also is Hon. Academic Consultant, London College of Clinical Hypnosis. She holds an Executive Diploma in Coaching and also in Counselling.  Her publications include Malaysian Indian: Sociocultural Assimilation towards the Malay Majority (2012, Tanjung Malim, UPSI), Leadership Discourse of Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammad (2010, Shah Alam, UPENA ), Code-Switching in Malaysia ( 2009,Frankfurt, Peter Lang) and The Sindhis of Malaysia: A Sociolinguistic Account (2001, London, ASEAN), and her co-edited and edited publications are National Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities: Speaking in Many Tongues(2011,IIAS/ICAS, University of Amsterdam Press), Politeness in Malaysian Family Talk (2008, Serdang: UPM), Language and Human Rights: Focus on Malaysia (2007, Serdang: UPM), Language and the Power of the Media (2006, Frankfurt, Peter Lang), Language Choices and Discourse of Malaysian Families: Case Studies of Families in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2006, Petaling Jaya, Strategic International and Research Development Centre), Teaching of English in Second and Foreign Language Settings: Focus on Malaysia (2004, Frankfurt, Peter Lang) and Developing Reading Skills (2002, Kuala Lumpur: Melta/Sasbadi). Dr. David can be contacted at: mayadavid@yahoo.com.