This site is a compilation of Pei Ling’s published work in the press.
Over the course of her 15-year career, she has transitioned from a journalist to a public servant, and now a corporate writer for the sustainability department at a Fortune Global 500 company.
She has served as a staff and freelance writer for the foreign, national and local press. She graduated with a first-class journalism degree from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in 2010. In 2013, she was awarded the British Chevening Scholarship to pursue a Master of Arts in Environment and Development at King’s College London. Upon graduating with merit in 2014, she has served as a communication officer with the European Forest Institute (EFI) and a researcher with the National Water Services Commission (SPAN) in Malaysia.
Between 2020 and 2021, she was a Tunku scholar based in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Geography, taking courses on research methods in the social sciences and statistics. She also had a brief stint with the Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) as a Principal Assistant Director at the Strategic Planning and International Affairs Division from 2021 to 2022.
She carries out freelance and voluntary work for international and Malaysian academic, journalistic institutions and non-profits, occassionally commercial clients. She speaks fluent English, Mandarin, Malay, Cantonese and understands Hokkien as her native dialect. Contact her at peilinggan [a] gmail.com or via LinkedIn.