Doreen Liu is a

Singaporean Singaporeans, or the Singaporean people, refers to citizens or people who identify with the sovereign island city-state of Singapore. Singapore is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual country. Singaporeans of Chinese, Malay, Ind ...

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and philanthropist. Doreen Liu graduated from

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

with a BSocSc degree in

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and

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in 1970. Liu is Managing Director of World Scientific Publishing which she co-founded in Singapore in 1981. She is Treasurer of the

International Women's Forum The International Women's Forum (IWF), founded in 1974 as the Women's Forum of New York, is an invitation-only women's organization with some 7,000 members. Its mission is "to support the women leaders of today and tomorrow". The IWF hosts two con ...

. She has served as Chair of the Publishing Association of Singapore. She has been Chair of the Publishing Committee of the Singapore-British Business Council. She has also served as chair of the Printing and Publishing Advisory Committee. Liu received the Entrepreneurship Excellence Award in 1990, organised by the Entrepreneurship Development Centre. She received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Women in Asia in 2010, organised by RBS Coutts and the

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. In 2014, together with her husband Kok Khoo Phua, she donated £1 million of ebooks to

's new library.

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