Dr Bawani Lelchumanan

Dr Bawani Lelchumanan

  • Assistant Head - Department of Economics & Finance
  • Senior Lecturer
  • Programme Leader - Bachelor (Hons) in Finance
Department of Economics & Finance

Biography

Dr Bawani Lelchumanan is a senior lecturer with the Department of Economics and Finance, Sunway Business School. Bawani has been awarded with a PhD degree (concentration: Labour Economics and Policy Studies) from The National University of Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia. Her completion of Doctoral Degree with Graduate on Time award, she gained further experiences through teaching assistant and Graduate Research Assistant in the field of Labour and Development Economics, Input-Output as well as Computable General Equilibrium modelling and analyses. She has joined several intensive courses on Computable General Equilibrium modelling from reputational institutions, such as Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS), Victoria University, Australia and Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia. Dr Bawani’s research interest and commitment driven by labour market segmentation and policy implementations, and diversifying future research on Financial Economics.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • PhD, The National University of Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia, 2021
  • Master in Economics, The National University of Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia, 2017
  • Bachelor of Economics, University of Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia, 2015

Research Interests

  • Labour Economics
  • Policy studies
  • Macroeconomics
  • Financial Economics

Teaching Areas

  • Economics
  • Finance

Courses Taught

  • Input-Output and Computable General Equilibrium methods
  • International Financial Management
  • Investment Management

Notable Publications

2020 -

Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) & Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Intellectual Property Portfolio. . Copyrights on Source Code Computable General Equilibrium model representing Malaysian labour market and economy.

2020 -

Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) & Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Intellectual Property Portfolio. . Copyrights – Survey on foreign labour in Malaysia.

2020 -

Sulaiman, N*., Ismail, R., Saukani, N. & Lelchumanan, B. . Skilled labour demand in Malaysian construction sector, Journal of Sustainability Science and Management (JSSM) Vol. 16, No. 4. (SCOPUS Q4).

2020 -

Sulaiman, N., Lelchumanan, B*., & Ismail, R. . Workforce Requirements in Malaysia’s Construction Sector, Malaysian Labour Review. Vol.14, No.1. (Ministry of Human Resource & Institute of Labour Market Information and Analysis: Malaysia).

2019 -

Lelchumanan, B*., Ismail, R & Sulaiman, S. . Manpower Requirements for Selected Services Subsectors in Malaysia: An Input-Output Analysis, International Journal of Economics and Management, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 179-191. (SCOPUS Q3)

Achievements & Accolades

2021 -
Graduate on Time Award for Doctoral Degree, Malaysia, February
2019 -
Silver medallist (Social Sciences Cluster) for Three Minutes Thesis Competition, (UKM level),
2015 -
Dean List awards for Master's Degree, -2017

Professional Associations

  1. International Statistical Institute, since 2019