Stella Lau is a Malaysian leader in the higher education industry, with almost three decades of rich experience in industry, academics and management.

A winner of Asia’s Woman Leaders 2021, by the World Women Leadership Congress, she is known for her leadership in expanding student access to higher education, catalysing academic innovation, and championing transformative learning to achieve outstanding student experience. She currently provides leadership to more than 800 full and part-time faculty and staff, leading these teams through the post-pandemic times, rebuilding capabilities that prepare management and academic teams for an unprecedented and exciting future.

Stella Lau provides a brand of leadership that is characterized by a future-oriented focus on transformational change in ensuring vitality and sustainability for the future. In moving the university and colleges forward to higher levels of distinction and recognitions, she continues to lead profound changes to reshape higher education.