Dr. Ho Kim Wai graduated in 1978 with a First Class Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London. He then qualified as a Chartered Accountant in England and Wales, and later obtained both his Masters and PhD degrees in finance. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants. 

Dr. Ho joined Nanyang Technological University in 1989 and retired as a full-time faculty in 2021. Prior to joining NTU, Dr. Ho had extensive experience in Big Eight (now Big Four) international accounting firms in London and Singapore and was the Group Financial Controller and Company Secretary of a publicly listed multinational corporation in the manufacturing industry for several years.

At NTU, Dr. Ho had served as the Associate Dean (Research), the founding Director of the MSc (Financial Engineering) Programme and the Director of the MBA (Banking and Finance) programme. He is currently an Emeritus Associate Professor and serves as the Academic Director of the Nanyang Executive MBA programme.

Dr. Ho’s interests are in corporate finance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, business valuation and financial statement analysis. He conducts these courses at the EMBA, MBA and MSc levels, and for senior executives in the Nanyang Executive Programme and other in-house executive seminars. 

Dr. Ho has won several teaching awards over the years including the Nanyang MBA Teacher of the Year (2016), Nanyang Fellows MBA Teacher of the Year (2016 and 2019), EMBA Teacher of the Year (2010, 2017 and 2021), MSc (Finance) Teacher of the Year (2017) and MSc (Asset and Wealth Management) Teacher of the Year (2020). In 2018, Dr. Ho was awarded the prestigious Nanyang Education Award (School). In 2019, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Wealth Management Institute in Singapore.

Some of the organisations that Dr. Ho has provided consulting and training include China Construction Bank, China Merchant Bank, China Minsheng Bank, DBS Bank, Economic Development Board, GIC, Huaxia Bank, ICBC, Infocomm Development Authority, JTC Corporation, Keppel Corporation, Monetary Authority of Singapore, National Health Group, OCBC Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, Singapore Press Holdings, SMRT Corporation and Standard Chartered Bank.

Dr. Ho was conferred the Public Service Medal Award (PBM) in 2005 and awarded the Long Service Medal (National Day Honours) in 2015.