Yik Koon Teh

Teh Yik Koon received her BA in law and sociology, MA in sociology from the University of Kent at Canterbury, and PhD in sociology (criminology) at the London School of Economics. She was attached to Universiti Utara Malaysia as an associate professor in criminology and sociology until 2009. She then served as a full professor at the National Defence University of Malaysia until her retirement in 2022. She was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California Los Angeles in 2002 and a visiting scholar at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University in 2015.She is an associate member of the Transgender Asia Research Centre based in the University of Hong Kong. She began researching transsexuals in Malaysia in 1996. Teh is also the author of From BMF to 1MDB: A Criminological and Sociological Discussion.