Lee Chin is an associate professor in international economics at the School of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of financial economics, international economics, energy economics and developmental economics. She has taught more than 20 different courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and supervised more than 100 undergraduate and postgraduate students. To date, she has published 106 journal articles, 4 books and 16 chapters in books.