Foo Check Teck

Dr. Foo Check Teck is globally known for his empirical, rigorous statistical studies on Art of War corporate strategy (Organizing Strategy; Blackwell in Oxford, Spring’s Choice). After his corporate studies, he then embarked on an in-depth psychological analysis of the mind of Sun Tzu (Reminiscences of an Ancient Strategist: Mind of Sun Tzu; Singapore’s top NBDCS prize).

His works on Art of War had attracted widespread press publicity including BBC, Korean Times, The Australian, Japanese Radio as well interviews. The Straits Times in selecting him as one of Asia’s movers and shakers, hailed him as Singapore’s “Man of Renaissance”. Recently he was invited to act as expert on US History Channel’s production on Sun Tzu.

He is widely sought after as a keynote speaker. Besides his role as Associate Professor, Systems Engineering in NTU he is concurrently Honorary Chair of Competitive Strategy, University of St Andrews, UK and Distinguished Professor of Finance, City University of New York, USA. He had held visiting professorships across Europe, Asia and America.

He is multi-disciplined with qualifications in law, finance, accounting and strategy: LLB (Hons., London), MBA (Finance, Award Winner, City University of London), PhD (Strategy, St Andrews) Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn), Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore). FCMA, FCCA, CPA, ACIS.

Unlike many professors who tend to be narrowly focused, he was able through self-learning via “osmosis” within an engineering environment, able to embark and publish research in engineering and archaeological journals (Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, IEEE Conferences; Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies.

He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of internationally reputable journal: Chinese Management Studies. Besides, he is an Editor with Cognitive Neurodynamics as well as on boards of several international journals including Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Emerging Markets, Management History, Business Environments, Corporate Communication, Management Decision, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.