Sharon Liew has more than 17 years of banking and training experience. She started her career as a Senior Associate at BDO; leading audits of the government-linked group of companies under the Prime Minister’s Office from 2005-2007.
Following that, she joined Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) as Financial Supervisor where her responsibilities included on-site and off-site surveillance of financial institutions in Malaysia. Her surveillance portfolio covered risk management control functions across Consumer Banking, SME Banking, Corporate Banking, and Investment Banking. She also led and conducted several thematic reviews that included AML/CFT, credit risk-SA review, operational risk, FRS139, stress testing, corporate governance, Shariah compliance and internal controls. In 2012, Sharon represented BNM as part of the knowledge sharing team at the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Banking Supervisory training. Pursuing her passion for teaching, Sharon then went on to teach banking and finance at the Tunku Abdul Rahman University College from 2014 to 2021.
At the Asian Banking School, she develops and delivers customised Sustainable Finance programmes for clients including designing Sustainable Finance Structured Learning Pathways. She also conducts Sustainability Awareness training sessions for diverse age groups and participants from various sectors utilising multiple languages during her training sessions. Currently, Sharon is working on expanding partnerships with government agencies to enhance the scope of training offerings to the banking and non-banking industry. She is also involved in conducting Qualification-related training.
Sharon was a judge for the 2022 I-CEE Case Competition organised by the International Business School of Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) evaluating sustainability issues. She was also a guest speaker at the “International Forum on Regional Cooperation of China, Japan, and Korea, and the 20th Northeast Asia Management and Economics Joint Conference 2023” hosted by BFSU.
Sharon conducts training in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin and Cantonese and has a teaching permit registered under the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. She is a qualified Chartered Accountant registered under the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and is a Certified HRDF Accredited Trainer. Sharon has a Bachelor of Accounting from the University Putra Malaysia and a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching from the Open University Malaysia. She also holds a Professional Certificate in Islamic Finance from INCEIF, Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the London Teacher Training College and is a Certified Teacher in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (CTCSOL) from Hanban. She is a Certified Expert in Sustainable Finance awarded by the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany and is a Certified HRDF Trainer.
