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Eddie Copeland

Eddie is Director of the London Office of Technology and Innovation (LOTI), an organisation that helps London boroughs work together, bringing the best of digital, data and innovation to improve public services for Londoners. Previously he was Director of Government Innovation at Nesta, the innovation foundation. He is the author of seven reports on government use of technology and data. He is also a member of the Smart London Board, a group that advises the Mayor of London on how London can harness digital technology and data for the benefit of those who live and work in the UK capital.

About Organisation: LOTI was launched on 10 June 2019 at London Tech Week and started its formal operations on 15 July 2019. LOTI support a coalition of London boroughs who want to work together, bringing the best of digital, data and innovation to improve public services for Londoners.

Farah H. Sanwari

Farah is a social innovator at heart who aims to build a sustainable future with and for everyone. She’s a Partnership Catalyst for SpudnikLab, a frugal innovation company bridging the digital divide for underserved communities and a Singapore Futures Fellow for the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Executive Education unit. She also co-founded and is the executive director of FiTree, a Muslim sustainability non-profit organisation. Having completed her Bachelors in Industrial Design in NUS and Masters in Tri-Sector Collaboration in SMU, she uses her experience and expertise in social innovation, social entrepreneurship, systems design and futures thinking to tackle complex systemic issues through tri-sector collaboration and innovation.  

About Organisation: Spudnik Lab is a Potato Productions initiative to address the digital needs of people and places most recently connected to the internet, or communities new to digital products and services.

Mervin Junus

Mervin is a 3^rd year undergrad at the National University of Singapore specializing in Applied and Policy Economics.  As a youth advocate, he helmed the Asian Undergraduate Summit 2021 (AUS2021) as its chairperson. He headed a team of 17 youths in ideation, planning and execution of AUS2021 which involved 123 participants from 17 partner universities across 10 Asian countries. He currently serves as an intern at the Singapore Business Federation where he expedites the processes and work-flow of online and hybrid events, from overseas markets to day-to-day operations, under SBF Global’s flagship initiative comprising of 3 main markets – ASEAN, Japan and South Asia.

About Organisation: STEP Asian Undergraduate Summit (AUS) is an international programme organised by students under the National University of Singapore (NUS) University Scholars Programme (USP) and supported by Temasek Foundation International under the STEP series of youth programmes. Initiated in 2015, STEP AUS aims to build a platform for undergraduates across Asia from various disciplines to come together and engage in meaningful academic and inter-cultural exchange.

Mariah Tamayo

Mariah is currently a student at the School of the Arts Singapore specialising in Visual Arts. She was part of the winning team from the LKYSPP’s inaugural Singapore Futures Youth Competition 2021. Her team’s focal concern was the future of recreation and its importance in building “kampong spirit” in Singapore. The winning team’s vision of Singapore in 2040 encompasses the essence of an ideal recreational landscape: one that is adapted to Singapore’s changing context, and one that brings communities together.

About Competition: The Singapore Futures Youth Competition 2021 is a 5-day event, from 21 to 25 June 2021. The theme of the competition is Re-imagining SG75, which challenges participants to imagine how Singapore will look like in 2040, when Singapore celebrates its 75th birthday. Through this, participants will be introduced to public policy challenges in the future and the complexities in the policymaking process.

Cheryl Chung

Cheryl is the Programme Director of the Executive Education Singapore Futures department at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.  

Before joining the School in 2015, Cheryl worked in the Singapore Government where she led futures projects across several ministry portfolios for 8 years. She entered the world of public policy futures as part of the pioneer team for the Ministry of Trade and Industry’s Futures Group. There, she led projects exploring the industry development potential of trends such as big data, and 3D-printing. After MTI, she moved to the Strategic Policy Office, under the Prime Minister’s Office, where she co-led the Emerging Strategic Issues Project v2.0 and led research work on the Evolving Role of the State. She also designed, developed, and delivered their in-house training programme, Futurecraft, focusing on foresight communication. Cheryl’s most recent ministry posting was to the Ministry of Transport where she helped to start the Ministry’s futures team and led the development of their policy framework for Autonomous Vehicles.

About Organisation: At Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Executive Education, we empower leaders with the skills to thrive in a complex, fast changing world. Our programmes encourage critical reflection, impact valuable knowledge about the governance and policy making, and create opportunities for learning across departmental boundaries and intellectual disciplines. The diverse and international faculty helps to equip individuals and organisations with multiple perspectives to make sense of the complexity they face. By integrating theory and practice, we help them achieve a deeper understanding of how they can be more effective managers, leaders and changemakers.

Incubated at the Executive Education department, the Executive Education Singapore Future (EESF) seeks to strengthen engagements with the Singapore public service, and build on its existing futures thinking and scenario planning capacity to enhance our executive programmes and consulting projects. EESF serves a key node for equipping Singaporeans on key governance challenges of the future, through capability development and community engagements. EESF also endeavours to amplify the School’s thought leadership on Singapore’s emerging strategic issues, and expand the network of futures and policy practitioners in Singapore and beyond.