He graduated with a bachelor of accountancy (first class honors) from Nanyang Technological University and a PhD from Duke University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) holder. His research has been cited in two of Singapore’s highest-circulation newspapers, the Straits Times and the Business Times, as well as in Pulses (previously, the Singapore Stock Exchange Journal), Smart Investor, and CFO Asia, a publication of The Economist Group.