Dr Timothy Chan holds the appointment of Vice Provost at the Singapore Institute of Management and oversees all academic services.
Dr Chan has over 35 years of working experience in the education field. Dr Chan has taught IT and Accounting modules in Singapore Polytechnic, UniSIM (renamed as Singapore University of Social Sciences), RMIT University, and the University of London. As a researcher, he has completed research projects funded by the European Union and China. As an advisor, external assessor and consultant, he has provided services to institutes of higher learning in Singapore (Institute of Technical Education), Hong Kong (City University), and the United Kingdom (Middlesex University, Nottingham Trent University, Oxford Brookes University and University of Wales). He is also the author of an Accounting textbook.
Dr Chan is active in the professional and youth communities. He has served as an Executive Council member of the Singapore Computer Society and chaired the SCS Professional Development Committee (2009-2019). He is a member of the Education Committee of CPA Australia (Singapore) and a member of the Advisory Committee of Youth Corps Singapore.
Before he joined SIM, Dr Chan held the appointments of Director, School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology, and Director, School of Business, at Singapore Polytechnic.
Dr Chan holds a PhD in Higher Education from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. He is also a fellow of Singapore Computer Society and CPA Australia.
