Prof. Ir. Dr. Mohd Shahir Liew  Vice Provost, Research & Knowledge Exchange
University of Nottingham Malaysia

Bio

Professor Ir. Dr. Mohd Shahir Liew is a distinguished engineer, innovator, entrepreneur and academic leader. He earned his PhD in 1988 in Texas and spent over two decades as a consulting engineer, contributing to offshore, high-rise, infrastructure projects and capital projects across the USA, Malaysia and the Asian Countries. His entrepreneurial spirit and penchant for technology and innovation led him to launch successful start-ups in Indonesia circa 2006 to 2009.  After spending 23 years in the industries, he joined the academia in 2009 until today.  A registered professional engineer in both the USA and Malaysia, a Chartered Engineer in the UK and a Fellow of Energy Institute UK, Professor Shahir transitioned to academia in 2009. He joined Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) that same year and was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) in 2017, playing a key role in positioning UTP as Malaysia’s top research university through strategic research transformation and performance indicators.  After spending 14 years with UTP and PETRONAS research, he joined the University of Nottingham Malaysia end of 2023 as the Vice Provost of Research and Knowledge Exchange.    He is appointed as the National High Foreign Talent Expert by China since 2022 on Offshore and Energy Research.  He has extensive record on training professional engineers in the early days and held many key advisory roles in various NGOs and organizations and currently with his research and leadership focus on decarbonisation, ESG, and the energy transition, he is leading the National Initiative on Energy Transition 2.0 after successfully completed Energy Transition 1.0.    With over 350 publications, and over 8k citations, Professor Shahir is deeply committed to nurturing talent and advancing professional development. He lives by the motto that "a true leader creates new leaders” and is actively involves in mentoring professionals as well as the academicians.