Financial Literacy

Kek Weng has been involved in academia for the past three decades in polytechnic education having assumed Course Chair in the Diploma in Banking & Financial Services, Ngee Ann Polytechnic. He is knowledgeable and experience in curricula development, pedagogy and delivery having assumed many teaching appointments as Module Leader, tutor in a myriad of modules including “Investments”, “Financial Markets & Services,” and “Credit Management“, “Treasury,” “Risk Management” “ Financial Management”, “Macroeconomics”, “Accounting & Finance”, “Business Statistics”.  He is currently a Special Associate and Module leader helming the module in “Wealth Management”.

He completed and passed all the academic requirements leading to the CFP^TM certification in Financial Planning. Besides teaching, he has conducted training courses for MOE to Commerce stream secondary school teachers, Civil Service College and undertaken curriculum development for Finance modules in Diploma Programmes for the Singapore Institute of Management.  He has also conducted FinLit courses to secondary schools where it was very well received. He was also contributed to the preliminary concepts and discussions for the roll-out of a mandatory Financial Literacy programme for students in the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and the polytechnics. He continues to pursue his interest and passion is in Financial Literacy where he currently volunteers in church both as a as a part-time counsellor as well as involved in the area of financial counselling.

Prior to joining Ngee Ann Polytechnic, he worked for 6 years in a Japanese merchant bank. During his stint in the merchant bank, he was responsible for the Corporate Banking Department and took charge of the funding, credit administration of the bank’s loan portfolio. He was subsequently seconded to the UK office for 2 years as a Bank Dealer and assumed responsibility for treasury operations in money market trading for the bank.