Prof Liew Ah Choy received the BE (First Class Honours) and PhD degrees from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1969 and 1972 respectively. From 1972 to 1979, he was with the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Malaya. From April 1979 till July 2015, he was with the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he served as Professor and Head of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. He also served NUS as Director of NUS-Extension and Director of International Relations Office. He is conferred Emeritus Professor in NUS. He is also the Director, Founder and CEO of EquiVolt Pte Ltd and EquiVolt M Pte Ltd, two consultancy companies specializing in providing design and solutions to lightning protection and electrical engineering problems. His main interests are lightning and lightning protection, high voltage, power quality and power systems engineering. He has over 285 publications in international and regional journals and has acted as specialist consultant to many power, high voltage and lightning related and other technical projects in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. He is the chairman of the technical committee for the Singapore Code of Practice for Lightning Protection, SS555:2010 and SS555:2018 and its previous edition CP 33:1996. He was also the chairman of the Industry Consultative Committee set up by the Public Utilities Board and the Economic Development Board for the setting up of a Power Quality Standard for Singapore; and was a member of the Energy System Review Committee set up by the Ministry of Trade & Industry, Singapore for the study of the reliability and robustness of the energy system in Singapore. He has served on several Government Boards and is presently on the Board of Energy Market Authority.
