My heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Pete Ooi the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of EDS Asia Pacific for being bestowed the Outstanding Lecturer Award during the International University Leadership Colloquium held on November 10, 2009 in Penang, Malaysia which happened coincidentally on my natal day.
Dr. Pete Ooi, highly deserves the said prestigious award considering that he is one of the best professors of the EDS Asia Pacific’s seminar programs that offer academic credits to working students leading to Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Doctor in Business Administration (DBA), monitoring in such subjects as Financial Management, EQ Leadership, Negotiation Skills, and others. All of his students were so appreciative of his amiable and straight-forward styles of teaching by ably citing practical and true-to-life experiences in presenting and discussing key knowledge and skills in the specific academic course subjects. He is serious in his teaching but injects humor in his topics for emphasis and as the need arises.
As the COO of EDS- Asia Pacific, he is in-charge of getting the best qualified international lecturers who are actually in the business world teaching students from countries all over the world. That is, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Slovakia, Singapore, China, etc.
Being one of the pioneer lecturers of the EDS Asia Pacific, Dr. Pete Ooi ensures that the Professors that mentor in state-of-the-art development training in leadership and management principles and skills and practices through a unique extraordinary executive open-learning program in tandem not only with institutions in Asia –Pacific countries but from but also from the Atlantic Rim.
Dr. Pete Ooi works hard with the President and Founder of EDS-Asia Pacific to provide sustainable quality and excellence – education among universities and colleges in Asia, America, Europe and the Middle East. No doubt, EDS Asia Pacific serves as the anabolic and catalytic organization in the establishment of a global open learning consortium among countries, thus, bringing higher education access to educational opportunities, capacity and sustainability for faculty and staff of universities and colleges towards earning global high academic qualification.
We wish that Dr. Pete Ooi will sustain his efforts in handing over his educational and managerial expertise to the growing demand for quality and excellence.
Goodluck and Mabuhay to Dr. Pete Ooi and the EDS- Asia Pacific!
Professor Dr. Nelson T. Binag
President Emeritus
Sultan Kudarat State University
Tacurong City, Philippines
nelsonbinag@yahoo.com
