Wong Hong Meng, an economics graduate from the University of Malaya with an MBA from Cranfield School of Management, earned his DBA from the University of South Australia in 2007. Professionally he was a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant in England and Wales. Currently he is a Chartered Accountant member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. For more than thirty years Dr Wong had held senior management positions in management consultancy, merchant banking, commercial banking and stock broking. In January 1999 he took early retirement from his employment career as Executive Director of TA Enterprise Berhad. After retirement he remained active in the business world and had served as an independent non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of two companies listed on Bursa Securities Malaysia Berhad. Currently he is an independent non-executive director and member of the investment committee of TA Investment Management Berhad and an independent non-executive director of Pan Malaysia Holdings Berhad. He is also a director of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship Berhad and MUI Continental Berhad.