Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cheng Ling Tan is an Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of the Graduate School of Business at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. She leads numbers of research grants and actively published in various referred indexed journals internationally.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cheng Ling Tan previously was a global supply chain quality consultant, as well as a quality department manager for more than 10 years with two multinational companies in Malaysia. Her research interest is in operations management, innovation, supply chain management, knowledge management, behavioral in operations management.