Dr Petrina Tan is Postdoctoral Fellow at the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business. She holds a PhD and an LL.M (Corporate & Financial Services Law) from the National University of Singapore as well as an LL.B (Hons)(Distinction), equivalent to a First Class Honours degree, from the University of Malaya. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue a PhD at the National University of Singapore and was conferred the PhD in July 2023. Her doctoral thesis examined the regulation of the alternative market listing regime by selected stock exchanges in Asia. Her prior research on retail investor protection and institutional investor stewardship has been published as journal articles in the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and the Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law as well as a book chapter in the edited volume ‘Global Shareholder Stewardship’ published by Cambridge University Press. She has presented at various international and regional conferences. Her research interests include capital market law and policy, company law and corporate governance and regulatory theory more generally. She was previously a corporate lawyer, federal counsel at the Malaysian Attorney General’s Chambers, senior manager at Bursa Malaysia and an adjunct research fellow at the National University of Singapore Centre for Banking & Finance Law. She was also a sessional tutor at the School of Business, Monash University Malaysia, where she taught Malaysian company law.
