ASIA AT THE CROSSROADS:
A World Disrupted

A seasoned media professional turned impact & social entrepreneur in 2012. Christina is deeply passionate about sustainability, education and business. She has been running her sustainability consulting and training business through Global Green Connect, and purpose-driven social enterprise, GGEF, to drive change and generate impact for a sustainable future in Asia.

Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Christina was the Asia Managing Director at Bloomberg media and served as Vice-Chair of SOPA (Society of Publisher Asia). Christina was named one of the Asia’s Top 30 ‘Eco Warriors 2019’ by Green is the New Black and ‘TBLI HERO’ by TBLI Group in 2020. She was awarded the ‘Achiever Award, Leader in Responsible Corporation Driving Impact’ at the Asia Futurist Leadership Summit 2020.

Christina holds a master’s degree in management from Macquarie University (MGSM), Sydney. An avid sports enthusiast, she was honoured to be a torch bearer for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Ruici Tio is the Policy Programs Manager for Meta and manages Economic Impact programs in APAC. He oversees Meta’s programmatic investments to support businesses through upskilling, financial education and thought leadership.  He’s also led Meta’s programmatic responses during crisis in markets such as Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Ruici has been working in international development and social impact in Asia for over 12 years specializing in strategic communications and behavior change. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a Masters in Government from Georgetown University

Mr Ruici Teo will be featured in the following FOI Session:
"Tech for Good" – The Better Angels of our Digital Technology

Joseph Chinyong Liow is Tan Kah Kee Chair in Comparative and International Politics at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is Professor and former Dean at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and currently Dean of College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at NTU. He held the inaugural Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asia Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he was also a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program. Joseph’s research interests encompass Muslim politics and social movements in Southeast Asia and the political-economy of the Asia Pacific. 
Joseph has authored Ambivalent Engagement: The United States and Regional Security in Southeast Asia after the Cold War, Religion and Nationalism in Southeast Asia and Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia. 
He sits on the board of several peer-reviewed academic and policy journals, is a member of the Social Science Research Council (Singapore), and is Singapore’s representative on the ASEAN Institute of Peace and Reconciliation advisory board. Joseph Liow holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a MSc in Strategic Studies from the Nanyang Technological University, and a BA (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Madison-Wisconsin.

Dr Joseph Liow will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Southeast Asia Between the Superpowers 

Aaron Maniam is a Singaporean civil servant, having served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Centre for Strategic Futures, Civil Service College and Ministry of Trade and Industry. Currently Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Communications and Information, and Chief, Global Positioning Strategy, he oversees digital economics, digital literacy and access, and international

digital partnerships. He was educated at Oxford and Yale. His PhD, from Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, involved a comparative study of digital government projects in Estonia, New Zealand and Singapore. In his free time, he writes poetry, facilitates inter-religious dialogues, and teaches at the National University of Singapore's Scholars Programme. He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, an Asia 21 Young Leader of the Asia Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Dr Aaron Maniam will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Politics in Policy Experimentation

Adam is a political scientist trained at Stanford University, though he doesn't believe in disciplinary and methodological boundaries. He studies Chinese politics and political economy. His dissertation, "Building Markets within Authoritarian Institutions: The Political Economy of Banking Development in China," won the 2020 BRICS Economic Research Award. The Award carries a prize money of Indian Rupees 1.5 million (approximately USD 21,000), supported by the Exim Bank of India, a citation and a medal.

Dr Adam Liu will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Identity, Nationalism and Great Power Rivalry

Akshat Garg is a Master of Public Policy Student and a Li Ka Shing Scholar at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. An electrical engineer by training Akshat is deeply interested in bringing structure to chaotic social sectors through data-driven, and market-based approaches. In the last half-decade, he has created a measurable impact in areas such as road safety, human rights, and skilled development. His work with SaveLIFE Foundation, in India, led to a nearly 43% reduction in fatalities on the Mumbai Pune Expressway in 2020. During the second wave of COVID-19 in India, Akshat with a team of close to 1400 professionals and volunteers across the country to bridge the gap between needs and resources. An avid coffee brewer, Akshat is the founder of Kafkascup - a #coffeeforgood initiative.

Akshat is currently focused on leveraging market-based approaches for improving the quality of governance, and financial health of citizens in the South Asian Region. His current assignments include helping governments transition to outcome-based budgeting, advocacy for market transformation to impact-centric business models, and understanding how governments can build an experimental culture of learning and governance.

Mr Akshat Garg will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Relooking at value – Lessons from Covid-19 in shareholders approach to growth and well-being

Alastair Iain Johnston (江忆恩) is the Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University. He was educated at the University of Toronto (BA), Harvard University (MA), and the University of Michigan (PhD). 

Johnston is the author of Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton 1995) and Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000 (Princeton University Press, 2008), and is co-editor of Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power (Routledge 1999), New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy (Stanford 2006), Crafting Cooperation: Regional Institutions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge 2007), Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists (Cambridge 2009), and Perception and Misperception in American and Chinese Views of the Other (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2015).

He is the author of articles on socialization in international institutions and on identity and foreign policy preferences. He has also written about the theory and practice of China’s approaches to inter-state crisis management. His current project is on the life cycle of security dilemmas.

Prof Alastair Iain Johnston will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
S.T Lee Distinguished Lecture Series: China’s Approaches to International Orders 
Identity, Nationalism and Great Power Rivalry 

Wu Alfred Muluan is Assistant Dean (Research) and Associate Professor in Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at National University of Singapore. He earned his PhD from City University of Hong Kong, where he was the recipient of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship and the Outstanding Academic Performance Awards for Research Degree Students. He previously served as an associate professor in the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong, a senior research associate in the Department of Public and Social Administration at City University of Hong Kong, and from 2000-2007 a senior journalist in Mainland China, where he received over a dozen awards and honours for outstanding journalism both from Chinese and overseas organizations.

His research interests include public sector reform, central-local fiscal relations, corruption and governance, and social protection in Greater China.  He has been engaged in funded research projects with support from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong and the Central Policy Unit of The Hong Kong SAR Government.

Assoc Prof Alfred Wu will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Policymaking and People’s Happiness: Do we need a new social contract?

Andrew Francis-Tan is a visiting associate professor at the LKY School of Public Policy. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago. Professor Francis-Tan engages in quantitative research in the fields of education, labor, and demography. His current research aims to understand patterns of inequality, public policies intended to empower vulnerable populations, and factors that shape seemingly-immutable social categories like race/ethnicity and gender.

 

Assoc Prof Andrew Francis-Tan will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
The Geography of Inequality in Singapore 
Women's Development in Singapore and Asia

Ang Cheng Guan is presently Associate Dean, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS). His previous positions include Deputy Director of Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS); Head of Graduate Studies (RSIS); Head of Studies (IDSS) and Head (Humanities and Social Studies Education, National Institute of Education).

He specialises in the international history of contemporary Asia, with a focus on Southeast Asia. He is the author of Vietnamese Communist Relations with China and the Second Indo-China Conflict, 1956-1962 (Jefferson: MacFarland, 1997, reprinted in paperback, 2012), The Vietnam War from the Other Side: The Vietnamese Communists’ Perspective (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002, paperback 2006), its sequel, Ending the Vietnam War: The Vietnamese Communists’ Perspective (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, paperback 2006); Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War  (London: Routledge, 2010, hardback, paperback and e-book); Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategic Thought (London: Routledge, 2013, hardback, softback and e-book) and Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodia Conflict, 1979-1991 (Singapore: NUS Press, 2013).

His most recent publications are Southeast Asia’s Cold War: An Interpretive History (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2018) and its sequel, Southeast Asia after the Cold War: A Contemporary History (Singapore: NUS Press, 2019) as well as The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (London: Routledge, 2022). He has two books forthcoming in 2023: Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategic Thought, and The Evolution of Singapore’s Grand Strategy. He is currently working on a book project: An International History of the Third Indochina War.

Prof Ang Cheng Guan will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Southeast Asia Between the Superpowers 

Anie currently serves as Associate Director (Executive Education Singapore Futures) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Her work focuses on building strategic foresight and futures thinking capacities and capabilities at the School. Her interest and work experience have been on the intersection of foresight, strategic planning, governance, and risk management particularly in higher education sector. In her previous capacity as the Head of Strategic Planning and Governance of the School, she oversaw the School’s strategic development and corporate governance functions, and served as the public affairs liaison with the Singapore government agencies.

Dr Anie Febriastati will be featured in the following FOI Session:

Futures Thinking Workshop on Eco Anxiety and Climate Action 

Apurva "Apu" Kumar is the founder of CITYDATA.ai . Apu, also an acronym for "Accelerated Processing Unit", has extensive technology experience in geospatial data, mobile analytics, and machine learning. At CITYDATA.ai, Apurva is focused on mobility big data + AI for pattern-of-life intelligence to make our cities smarter, safer, equitable, and more resilient. CITYDATA.ai publishes daily mobility data patterns for +1500 cities worldwide, with the stated goal to scale up to +5000 cities by 2025. Apurva has a Master’s degree in Earth Sciences & Engineering from Stanford University where his favourite pastime was modelling and simulating the flow of fluids through the Earth. When he is not globetrotting, deal hacking, or teaching tennis, Apurva spends his time helping local communities. He strongly recommends the civic tour of duty for technology companies to invest in and contribute to the improvement of local neighbourhoods, towns, and cities.

 
Mr Apurva Kumar will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Real-Time Tracking of Urban Mobility: Insights for Spatial Planning and City Life 

Ben Cashore specialises in global and multi-level environmental governance, comparative public policy and administration, and transnational business regulation/corporate social responsibility. His substantive research interests include climate policy, biodiversity conservation/land use change, and sustainable environmental management of forests and related agricultural sectors. His geographic focus includes Southeast Asia, North America, Latin America and Europe.

Ben’s theoretical interests include the legitimacy and authority requirements of non-state market driven (NSMD) global governance, the influence of economic globalisation on domestic environmental policies, and the potential of anticipatory policy design for identifying path dependent policy mixes capable of ameliorating “super wicked” environmental problems. He integrates his theoretical and empirical research around two key themes:

1) developing and managing problem oriented multi-stakeholder policy learning processes
2) strategies for nurturing multiple step policy pathways

Ben joined Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy after spending 18 years at Yale University as a professor of environmental governance and political science, where he also directed the Governance, Environment and Markets (GEM) initiative and, from 2014-2019, directed the Yale International Fox Fellows exchange program which awards promising graduate students in 18 partner universities. Ben was born and raised in British Columbia, Canada. His PhD is from the University of Toronto and he undertook postdoctoral research at Harvard University and the University of British Columbia. He worked for three years in Ottawa, Canada as a policy advisor to the leader of the Canadian New Democratic Party.

Prof Benjamin William Cashore will be featured in the following FOI sessions:
Closed-door Fostering Green Transformations in Asia: Lessons from an Environment Pioneer
Harvard Singapore Foundation Social Capital Lecture Series: Social Capital to Bolster The 1.5 Degrees ~ Revisited to Reverse Climate Change
Policymaking and People’s Happiness: Do we need a new social contract? 
Lim Tiam Seng Lecture Series: Deglamorizing "Resillency": Transcending the notion of strength
Forests and Climate Change in Southeast Asia: Opportunities and Challenges in a Post Glasgow World

Beverly is Research Assistant at the Institute of Policy Studies. Her work at IPS mainly focuses on digital capacity building, and her other research interests include disinformation and internet culture. The research she does at IPS involves systematic literature reviews, focus group discussions and in-depth interviews.

 
Beverly was a member of the organising team for The Ngee-Ann Kongsi-IPS Citizens’ Panel on Youth Mental Health, which provided a platform for the students of Republic Polytechnic to generate solutions for improving the mental health and resilience of Singaporean youths. Beverly oversaw the interaction among participants and facilitators and tracked the progress of solutioning done by participants. She was a facilitator and she also conducted a training workshop on secondary research for the participants. She also developed an information kit for the participants.

Ms Beverly Tan Hui Ru will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Co-Governance through Citizen’s Panels

Dr Carol Soon is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies where she heads the Society and Culture Department. Her research interests are in false information, digital literacy and inclusion, media regulation, new media and activism, and public engagement and deliberation. She worked with the Ministry of Health in 2017 on Singapore’s first Citizens’ Jury. She led The Ngee-Ann Kongsi-IPS Citizens’ Panel on Youth Mental Health where youths from Republic Polytechnic developed solutions to improve the mental health and resilience of Singaporean youths.

Carol is also Associate Director of the Asia Journalism Fellowship which is supported by Temasek Foundation. She is the Vice Chair of Singapore’s Media Literacy Council and a member of the Industry Advisory Panel for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. She sits on the Civil Service College-Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth Partnerships and Engagement Experts Panel. Carol has taught courses at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the University Scholars Programme at NUS.

Carol is a recipient of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Research Excellence Award and the Australian Endeavour Award. She is currently a volunteer mentor with Advisory SG and Voices of Asia.

Dr Carol Soon will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Co-Governance through Citizen’s Panels

Dr Celia Lee is Senior Research Fellow at NCPA, NTU. Formerly a Singapore public finance officer and researcher in the Singapore Civil Service College for over 10 years, Dr Lee obtained her Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from the University of Manchester. she has published extensively on topics relating to talent strategies in the public sector, policy experimentation, Whole of government strategies. Her recent published works are “The challenges and opportunities of a global health crisis: the management and business implications of COVID-19 from an Asian perspective” and “Catalysing innovation and digital transformation in combating the Covid-19 pandemic: Whole-of-government collaborations in ICT, R&D, and business digitization in Singapore”. She has also just published a book on Talent Strategies and Leadership Development of the Public Sector: Insights from Southeast Asia. She also teaches Innovation in the Public Sector for the Master of Public Administration (MPA) and Applied Learning Approach in BRI for the Master of Social Sciences (China and Global Governance) (MCGG).

 

Dr Celia Lee will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Politics of Policy Experimentation

Mr Chan Chun Sing was appointed Singapore’s Minister for Education on 15 May 2021. He is also Minister-in-charge of the Public Service since 1 May 2018. 
 
Mr Chan drove Singapore’s economic and industrial development as Minister for Trade and Industry (MTI) from 1 May 2018 to 14 May 2021. At MTI, he ratified the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, as well as deepened international cooperation on the digital economy. As Deputy Chairman of the People’s Association from 1 October 2015 to 14 May 2021, he oversaw national efforts to foster social cohesion.
 
From May 2015 to May 2018, he was Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and expanded the Labour Movement network to represent all working people in Singapore. Prior to NTUC, he served as Minister for Social and Family Development (2013-2015) and Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports (2011-12). He was also Second Minister for Defence (2013-15) and Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts (2011-12).
 
Serving with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) from 1987 to 2011, Mr Chan held various appointments including Chief of Army. He left the SAF to run in the 2011 General Election and was elected Member of Parliament for Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency.
 
An SAF (Overseas) and President’s Scholarship holder, he graduated with First Class Honours in Economics from Christ’s College, Cambridge University, UK. He was also awarded the 1998 Distinguished Master Strategist Award by the US Army Command and General Staff College. In 2005, he completed the Sloan Fellows Programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship.
 
Born in 1969, Mr Chan is married with three children and enjoys reading and jogging.

Mr Chan Chun Sing will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Closed-door Fireside Chat with Minister Chan Chun Sing 

Mr Chan Jia Hao is Research Associate with the Case Study Unit at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He has experience working in the think tank sector and the Singapore public service. He has written on topics exploring the nexus between international relations and political economy, notably on Digital Economy and Belt and Road Initiative. Jia Hao also contributes expert opinions to media outlets such as Nikkei Asian Review, South China Morning Post, The Business Times, Refinitiv and more.

He is co-editor of the public policy book "Rethinking the Status Quo: Public Policy Case Studies on Singapore" with foreword by Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, and essay contributor to the book “India on Our Minds”, co-edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-Large at Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Jia Hao received his Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Global Studies from the National University of Singapore, and his Master of Science in International Political Economy from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.

Mr Chan Jia Hao will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Case Study Workshop on Singapore's Wage Challenge:Progressive Wage Model and Gig Economy Workers 

Christopher Gee is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies where he leads the Governance and Economy Department. Christopher has published several papers on retirement financing, strengthening old-age income support and managing healthcare costs for an ageing population. Christopher was previously in investment banking, leading equity research teams covering Singapore and Malaysia, and the Asian real estate sector. He has a BA (Law) from the University of Nottingham and holds the CFA charter. Christopher holds a joint appointment with the National University of Singapore Business School, where he teaches undergraduate and post-graduate classes in real estate investment trust management.

Mr Christopher Gee will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Ageing & Intergenerational Gap

Dr Corinne Ong holds a joint appointment as Senior Lecturer at Ridge View Residential College, NUS, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS.

As an environmental and urban sociologist by training, Dr Corinne Ong takes a keen interest in understanding the environmental impacts of social organization, and on the flipside, how society organizes itself and responds according to the environmental risks it experiences and defines. Of interest to her are urban consumption patterns, as well as waste, water, and energy critical infrastructures. In particular, she is sympathetic to the “soft path” approach to conserving and managing critical environmental resources, where innovations and technology are designed and dedicated to advance both core humanistic/community values and environmental sustainability.

She has written and published journal articles and book chapters on topics pertaining to renewable energy infrastructures in developing countries, and waste and water recycling in Singapore. Most recently, she led and completed a two-year guidebook project on water demand management for ASEAN.

Dr Corinne Ong will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Changing Landscape of Policy Education in Asia 

Danny Quah is Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics and Dean at the School. His research interests lie in income inequality, economic growth, and international economic relations. Quah’s work takes an economic approach to world order - focusing on global power shift and the rise of the east, and alternative models of global power relations. The economic approach emerges in that Quah’s work studies the supply and demand of world order: What international system do the world’s superpowers wish to provide; what world order does the global community need? Quah’s work on income inequality sets the challenge against a broader background of social mobility and cohesion, and in so doing suggests a single narrative on the challenge of income inequality is unlikely to be correct or helpful.

Quah is Commissioner on the Spence-Stiglitz Commission on Global Economic Transformation; and serves on the Executive Committee, International Economic Association; the Executive Committee, Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs APSIA; the Advisory Council, Bennett Institute, Cambridge University; the Academic Advisory Board, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University; the Global Advisory Board, Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management; the Advisory Board, LSE IDEAS; the Advisory Council, OMFIF; the Eminent Advisory Council, UNDP Asia-Pacific; and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council for Geopolitics. He is Vice-Chair of Singapore’s Advisory Committee on Platform Workers.

Quah gave the third LSE-NUS lecture in 2013, TEDx talks in 2016, 2014, and 2012, and the Inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture in 2011. Quah’s research has been supported by the Khazanah Research Institute, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the British Academy, the UK’s Economic and Research Council, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Quah was previously Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT, and then at LSE Professor of Economics and International Development, and Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. He served as LSE’s Head of Department for Economics, and Council Member on Malaysia’s National Economic Advisory Council.

Quah studied at Princeton, Minnesota, and Harvard.

Prof Danny Quah be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
S.T Lee Distinguished Lecture Series: China’s Approaches to International Orders 
Closing Dialogue with Minister Lawrence Wong
Living with inequality: How the world needs to be a little less angry

David Wang is the Director of the Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Department of Huawei. He is responsible for the Asia Pacific IPR business planning, as well as IPR application, management, licensing, litigation, cooperation, and operation. Before taking charge of Asia Pacific IPR affairs, David Wang handled major patent disputes and anti-monopoly matters, and represented Huawei in discussions on IPR legislation and policies at home and abroad.

David Wang joined Huawei in 2008 and graduated from Peking University with a JM degree. After joining Huawei, he has worked as patent engineer, senior IP lawyer, and Director, and has a deep understanding of all aspects of IPR business.

 

Mr David Wang will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Technology Innovation and Knowledge Transfer in the Developing World 

Dylan Loh is an Assistant Professor at the Public Policy and Global Affairs division, Nanyang Technological University. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and was awarded the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences International PhD Scholarship from Nanyang Technological University under the Ministry of Education's 'Singapore Teaching and Academic Research Talent Scheme'. He was a Pre-Doctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen and was Vice-President of the Cambridge Mindfulness Society. His research interests include ASEAN politics, Chinese foreign policy, and international diplomacy. 

Dr Dylan Loh will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Making and Maintaining International Order: What Asians Want

Mingxuan FAN is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Real Estate at the NUS business school. She holds a joint appointment as an adjunct senior research fellow at the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Her research interest lies in the field of environmental and urban economics. Her current work focuses on the effectiveness of urban water conservation measures in Singapore and has been published in Nature Human Behaviour. Mingxuan completed her Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Dr Fan Mingxuan will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Weather and Water Demand in Singapore

Farah H. Sanwari is a social innovation leader with a keen interest in sustainable development and learning communities. She is currently a Partnership Catalyst for SpudnikLab, a frugal innovation company addressing the needs of marginalised communities. She was formerly the Executive Director of Sustainable Living Lab (SL2), a social innovation lab that develops innovative solutions for organizations and communities for a sustainable future.

Farah uses her experience and expertise in social innovation and entrepreneurship, systems design as well as futures thinking to tackle complex systemic issues through tri-sector collaboration and innovation. Facilitating a futuring process excites her most; she facilitated in civil-society-led Future Fridays, worked with the government of Brunei in developing their Future of Work strategy and ran a multi-stakeholder workshop on the Future of Waste Management with The Incubation Network, a global network tackling the issue of waste in South and Southeast Asia.

Ms Farah H. Sanwari will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Futures Thinking Workshop on Eco Anxiety and Climate Action 

Dr Soon-Joo Gog is the Chief Skills Officer and Chief Research Officer at the SkillsFuture Singapore, and has held a number of posts in Singapore government. She leads a team of Jobs-Skills Analysts, Data Scientists, and Futurists, to identify global trends that impact business, jobs and skills. Soon-Joo and her team work with local and international partners to prototype solutions in the areas of future of work, future of learning and future skills. Her research interests include capitalism in the digital economy, new economy firms, skills ecosystems and skills policies. She chairs the Singapore National Steering Committee for the OECD Programme for International Assessment for Adult Competency (PIAAC), and a member of OECD PIAAC Strategic Planning Group. She advises a number of research institutions. Soon-Joo has a doctoral degree jointly awarded by University College London, UK and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Master degrees from HEC, France and George Washington University, USA; bachelor degree from University of London, UK; and completed executive programme at Singularity University, USA.

 

Dr Gog Soon-Joo will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Technology & Future of Work 

Han Dan's current research focuses on health care provider behavior and clinical decision making, prescription drug policies, and maternal and child health. Some of her recent work examines changes in obstetric and neonatal provider practice following a severe childbirth event, behavioral barriers to quality postpartum care in Kenya, primary care provider knowledge and practice performance in Cambodia, and the effect of state prescription drug purchasing pools in the US.

Dan received her PhD from the Pardee RAND Graduate School and MPA from the New York University Wagner School. She was a visiting graduate student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health before transitioning into her postdoctoral fellow position in the same department. Dan also worked as a World Bank consultant while pursuing her doctoral degree.

Dr Han Dan will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Advances in Health Economics and Public Policy

Heinrich Jessen started his career as a tropical biologist before joining the family enterprise in 1995. In Jebsen & Jessen, he has worked as group director – environment, health & safety, general manager of two of the group’s packaging companies and regional managing director of its material handling joint-venture MHE-Demag. He has been chairman of Jebsen & Jessen’s executive board since 2010. He is also partner and director in the four other independent business groups that together make up the Jebsen & Jessen Family Enterprise.

Mr Jessen is a member of the Eastern Asia Review Commission of Air Liquide International and an Advisor to the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. He is also a member of the Yale University President’s Council on International Activities and a member of both the Steering Committee and the Dean’s Leadership Council of the Yale School of the Environment. He is Past Chairman of the Young President’s Organization Intercontinental Chapter and has previously served on the boards of the Singapore National Employers Federation, the United World College of South East Asia, the Parkinson’s Disease Society of Singapore and the Singapore Environment Council. He was awarded Singapore Businessman of the Year in 2016.

Mr Jessen earned a B.Sc. from George Washington University and an M.E.M. from Yale University. 

Mr Heinrich Jessen will be featured in the following FOI session:
Closed-door Fostering Green Transformations in Asia: Lessons from an Environment Pioneer

Assoc Prof Ishani Mukherjee is Associate Professor of Public Policy of the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, and Lee Kong Chian Fellow (2020-2024). Her expertise includes policy formulation and design; environmental and natural resource policy and management; policy tools for renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Assoc Prof Mukherjee has worked previously at the World Bank’s Energy practice in Washington, DC, on formulating guidelines and evaluating projects related to renewable energy, rural electrification and energy efficiency.

She holds a PhD in Public Policy from NUS, with a concentration on Environmental Policy and was the recipient of the World Future Foundation PhD Prize for Environmental and Sustainability Research in 2014. She obtained her B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Natural Resources and Environmental Economics from Cornell University.

Assoc Prof Ishani Mukherjee will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Changing Landscape of Policy Education in Asia 

Ms Jean Chia is a Research Associate with the Case Study Unit at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. She has more than a decade of working experience in various capacities in Singapore’s public sector. She has written public policy case studies on topics ranging from the urban sector and transport to the economy and social development, and has conducted training for local and overseas public sector officers. Jean has a Bachelor of Social Science in Economics and a Master of Science in Environmental Management from the National University of Singapore.

Ms Jean Chia Yi Ming will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Case Study Workshop on Singapore's Wage Challenge: Progressive Wage Model and Gig Economy Workers 

Assistant Professor Jean Liu is a Psychology faculty at Yale-NUS College. At Yale-NUS, she was the Head of Studies of Psychology in 2019, and served as a Residential Fellow from 2018-2020.

In her research portfolio, Asst Prof Liu documents how technological advances influence health, well-being, and social outcomes. This comprises two themes: (i) the impact of digital technology and the internet (focusing on smartphone use, phone applications, and social media) and (ii) how advances in medical technology interact with the broader psychosocial context. Within this remit, her research group addresses both basic science and translational topics, incorporating data from randomised controlled trials, epidemiological surveys, experience sampling, behavioural paradigms, psychophysiology, digital phenotyping, and large datasets.

In her teaching capacity, Asst Prof Liu’s focus area is behavioural insights (‘nudge theory’) – how an understanding of psychology can optimise public policy and product design. To this end, she regularly partners with the government, NGOs, and the private sector to supervise student consultancy projects. She also teaches a flagship course where students conduct randomised controlled trials to solve real-life policy challenges.

In Asst Prof Liu’s public capacity, she sits on government advisory committees pertaining to health, speaks at various public forums, and has been widely featured in the media.

Dr Jean Liu will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Politics of Policy Experimentation 

Professor Yeung is a Provost-Chair Professor in NUS Sociology Department and has a joint appointment with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She is also the President of the Population Association of Singapore. Prior to NUS, her academic history includes time in the University of Michigan and New York University. She is the founding Director of the Center for Family and Population Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in NUS. She was the Cluster Leader of the Changing Family in Asia research cluster in the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore from 2010 to 2021.  She is a council member of the Asian Population Association and of the International Sociological Association, Research Committee for Family. Currently, she leads a project on Singapore preschool children's development - Singapore Longitudinal Early Development Study (SG LEADS).

Professor Yeung has published extensively and has been on the editorial boards of several top-ranking international journals such as Demography, Journal of Marriage and Family, Child Development, Social Science Research, and Journal of Family Issues, and on numerous scientific review committees and advisory boards. Professor Yeung’s current research includes various family demographic issues in Asia and in America.

Prof Jean Yeung will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Ageing & Intergenerational Gap

Prof Weiss is a political scientist and the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the Department of Government at Cornell University. From August 2021 to July 2022, she served as senior advisor to the Secretary's policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, while on sabbatical from Cornell as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow for Tenured IR Scholars (IAF-TIRS).

Her first book, Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press, August 2014), examined how the Chinese Communist Party has managed nationalist, anti-foreign protests, tracing the government's repression and facilitation of grassroots mobilization as a means of conveying reassurance and resolve.

Her current book project, A World Safe for Autocracy: The Domestic Politics of China's Foreign Policy (under contract, Oxford University Press), looks at how domestic politics and regime insecurity shape China’s foreign policy and the future of international order.

 Her research appears in International Organization, China Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and Review of International Political Economy, as well as in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Quarterly. Weiss was previously an assistant professor at Yale University and founded FACES, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford University. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, she received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2008, where her dissertation won the 2009 American Political Science Association Award for best dissertation in international relations, law and politics. Weiss is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Prof Jessica Chen-Weiss will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Hong Siew Ching Speaker Series: World Safe for Autocracy: The Domestic Politics of China’s Foreign Policy
Identity, Nationalism and Great Power Rivalry 

Joelle Fong is Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. She holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Joelle’s broad research agenda focuses on the economic and health aspects of population ageing, and their implications for policy. Her research interests include pension economics and finance, public and private insurance markets, longevity risk management, retirement security, and long-term care financing. Her research has been published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, North American Actuarial Journal, Journal of Pension Economics & Finance, and Scandinavian Actuarial Journal. Her work on health and ageing has been published in Health Services Research, Journal of American Geriatrics Society, and Archives of Gerontology & Geriatrics. Joelle currently serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Governors for the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, and is also an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, University of New South Wales, Australia. She worked in the Singapore Civil Service before joining academia.

 

Dr Joelle Fong will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Ageing & Intergenerational Gap 

Jonathan A. Chu is an Assistant Professor in International Affairs and Presidential Young Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He researches public and elite opinion on global affairs, focusing on how identity, norms, and values shape these opinions in areas of war, democracy, and great power politics. His work appears in peer-reviewed publications such as the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Journal of Politics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and World Politics, and has earned grant funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and other public and private institutions.

Outside the academy, Jon has consulted for a variety of public and private agencies in areas of international affairs and survey methodology. He is also a co-founder of CivicPulse, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering local governments through enabling high quality polling of their leaders.

Jon completed his B.A. in Political Science at UC San Diego and Ph.D. also in political science from Stanford University, where he was an NSF Graduate Fellow. His postdoctoral work was completed at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr Jonathan A. Chu will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:

Hong Siew Ching Speaker Series: World Safe for Autocracy: The Domestic Politics of China’s Foreign Policy
Identity, Nationalism and Great Power Rivalry 
Trust in Experts? Misinformation of Fake News in Global Affairs 

Kanti Bajpai is Wilmar Professor of Asian Studies, Vice Dean (Research and Development), and Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His areas of research include international thought, strategic culture, international security, and Indian foreign policy and national security. Before coming to the LKY School, he was Professor of International Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Professor in the Politics and International Relations of South Asia, Oxford University. From 2003 to 2009, he was Headmaster, The Doon School, India. He taught at the Maharajah Sayajirao University of Baroda, and held visiting appointments at Wesleyan University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has also held visiting appointments at the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace, Notre Dame University, the Brookings Institution, the Australian Defence Force Academy, and the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. His most recent books are India Versus China: Why They Are Not Friends (2021) and the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020; edited with Selina Ho and Manjari Chatterjee Miller). He is currently working on a project on Asian conceptions of international and regional order (with Evan Laksmana).

Prof Kanti Bajpai will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Making and Maintaining International Order: What Asians Want

Khong Yuen Foong is Li Ka Shing Professor of Political Science at the LKYSPP.  He was formerly Professor of International Relations, and a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987 and was Assistant/Associate Professor at Harvard University’s Government Department from 1987-1994. His book, Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965 (Princeton, 1992; sixth printing 2006; Chinese translation 2021) was co-winner of the American Political Science Associations Political Psychology Book Award (1994). He also received the Erik Erikson Award for distinguished early career contribution to political psychology in 1996. He has held grants from the Social Science Research Council (New York)-MacArthur Foundation Program on Security in a Changing World, the United States Institute of Peace, and the (U.K.) Leverhulme Trust. His research interests include United States foreign policy, the international relations of the Asia Pacific, and cognitive approaches to international relations. Recent publications include “Power as Prestige in World Politics,” International Affairs (January 2019), “The American Tributary System,” The Chinese Journal of International Politics (2013) and “The United States Response to China’s Rise,” International Security, (2013/2014). He is Principal Investigator of “The Anatomy of Choice: Southeast Asia between the Superpowers,” a four-year project (2021-2024) supported by a Singapore Social Science Research Thematic Grant. 

Prof Khong Yuen Foong will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Southeast Asia Between the Superpowers 

Seonghoon Kim is Associate Professor of Economics and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on Successful Aging at Singapore Management University, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Germany. His research interests focus on health economics, labour economics, and public economics. Dr Kim's current research project examines the causal impacts of income on health and economic outcomes, the impacts of COVID-19 on consumption, employment, and health. He teaches Health Economics at the advanced undergraduate and Ph.D. levels and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Ohio State University.

 

Assoc Prof Kim Seonghoon will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Advances in Health Economics and Public Policy

Soyoung is a PhD Candidate at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests include Japan’s post-Cold War foreign policy, Korea-Japan relations, and Northeast Asian security. She holds a BA in Spanish and International Studies from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and a Master of Public Policy with specialization in Politics and International Affairs from the Lee Kuan Yew School.

Ms Kim Soyoung will be featured in the following FOI Session:
COVID-19 Social Policy Response in East Asia :Tracking the Productivist Welfare Regime

Lawrence specializes in behavioral economics. Specifically, he uses insights from behavioral economics to better understand how people make decisions, and to design behavioral intervention programs for public policy. Some of his current research includes designing a behavioral intervention program for diabetes patients in Singapore; an empirical investigation of behavioral biases in physicians’ decision-making in the emergency and in obstetrics departments; and the impact of new digital booking platforms on the efficiency of the taxi market in Singapore.

Lawrence received PhD in Economics from Cornell University in 2018. Prior to joining Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, he was an assistant professor at the Centre for Behavioural Economics, NUS Business School.

Dr Lawrence Jin will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Advances in Health Economics and Public Policy
Trust in Experts? Misinformation of Fake News in Global Affairs

Mr Lawrence Wong is the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance. He co-chairs the Multi-Ministry Taskforce on COVID-19, and is the Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He is also a member of the GIC Board, the Future Economy Council, the Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council and the National Research Foundation Board, and co-chairs the Singapore-Shanghai Comprehensive Cooperation Council.

Mr Wong was elected a Member of Parliament in May 2011 and was re-elected in September 2015 and July 2020. He has held positions in the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Communications and Information, the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, the Ministry of National Development, and the Ministry of Education. 

He contributes to the labour movement as Chairman of the Singapore Labour Foundation as well as Advisor to the Union of Power and Gas Employees.

Beginning his career as a civil servant, Mr Wong had worked previously as the Chief Executive of the Energy Market Authority and the Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. At the community level, he was involved in youth work in the church and voluntary organisations. 

Mr Wong was educated at Tanjong Katong Secondary School and Victoria Junior College. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He also holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Mr Lawrence Wong will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Closing Dialogue with Minister Lawrence Wong

Dr Leong Chan-Hoong is Head of Policy Development, Evaluation, and Data Analytics at Kantar Public, a global policy consulting firm that specialises in the government and non-profit sector. Prior to this, he has held positions as Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Research, Singapore University of Social Sciences (2019-2022), and Senior Research Fellow and Head of Social Lab (2016-2019, Dy Head, 2013-2016) at the Institute of Policy Studies.

Dr Leong Chan-Hoong will be featured in the following FOI Session:
The Geography of Inequality in Singapore 

Leong Ching's work lies in making sense of apparently irrational environmental behavior, whether in refusal to use recycled water, underinvesting in water utilities, or decision making in building dams and managing rivers. She uses narratives, perceptions and stories to understand collective public behavior as well as environmental identities. Her field research is focused on water institutions and governance in Asia.

Leong Ching has graduate degrees in philosophy, information technology and journalism. Before joining the university, she had a career in television and newspaper journalism.

Assoc Prof Leong Ching will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Synergising Climate and Sustainability Action: Where are Non-state and Subnational Actors? 
Closed-door Fireside Chat with Minister Chan Chun Sing 
Village Lessons for a Better Society

Sun Sun LIM is Professor and Head of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. From 2003 to 2016, she was Assistant then Associate Professor at the Department of Communications & New Media; and from 2014 to 2016, Assistant Dean for Research at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.

Her research seeks to uncover the intricacies of the relationship between technology and society. She pays particular focus to the factors that influence how people domesticate technology, where her principal work delves into the home setting. With technology encroaching into virtually every realm of our lived experience, her latest research extends to the implications of technological disruptions in the workplace. She also investigates technology domestication writ large, focusing on digital literacy, user perceptions, and public understanding of  pervasive ambient technologies deployed in smart cities. Her latest books include Transcendent Parenting – Raising Children in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, in press, 2019), Mobile Communication and the Family – Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication (Springer, 2016) and Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts (Routledge, 2016). She is also a founding member of the Singapore Computer Society’s Special Interest Group on Women in Technology that seeks to increase gender diversity in the technology sector through mentoring and peer support of female technology professionals.

Prof Lim Sun Sun will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Technology & Future of Work 

Dr Lindsay Hundley is a Product Policy Manager at Meta, where she supports the company’s efforts to counter both covert and overt influence operations. This includes the work to disrupt networks of Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB), as well as work on state-controlled media entities. Prior to joining Meta, Lindsay received her PhD in Political Science at Stanford University where she researched how governments use foreign interference to bolster their rule domestically. At the Stanford Internet Observatory, she also studied the spread of Covid-19 misinformation on social media and researched deceptive influence campaigns removed by Meta and Twitter. Her work has been published in both premier academic and policy outlets, including Lawfare, Foreign Policy, and the Washington Post.

 

Dr Lindsay Hundley will be featured in the following FOI Session:

Trust in Experts? Misinformation of Fake News in Global Affairs 

Lucas Shen is a Research Fellow at the Asia Competitiveness Institute in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Nanyang Technological University. Lucas uses big data and machine learning to study a broad range of topics in behavioral economics and political economy, e.g., the impact of the Work-from-Home policy on productivity, the impact of structural barriers on social interactions, etc. He also contributes to open-source software. Software developed by him has been downloaded over 25k times.

Dr Lucas Shen will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Real-Time Tracking of Urban Mobility: Insights for Spatial Planning and City Life

Maki is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Water Policy.

Her research interest lies in development economics using applied econometrics. The focused areas are social policy, inequality, and poverty alleviation. Her current projects include evaluation of a water conservation project, a field experiment on water conservation, and access to water and sanitation.

She received her master and doctoral degree in international development studies from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Japan), concentrating on development economics.

Dr Fan Mingxuan will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Weather and Water Demand in Singapore

Dr Marina Kaneti is Assistant Professor at the LKY School of Public Policy. She specializes in questions of global development, including the Chinese Belt and Road, migration, and environmental governance.

In addition to journal publications pertaining to global governance issues, Dr. Kaneti has curated a digital platform documenting ancient and modern interactions along the Silk and Spice Routes, and the geopolitical impact of the Belt Road initiative. The “Visual Archives of the Silk and Spice Routes,” funded by a NUS Start-up grant and Ford Foundation fellowship, contains 7000+ images, stories, and short movies.

To capture the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Kaneti is also developing an index on social protection mechanisms and emergency preparedness in Southeast Asia.

Dr Kaneti is the recipient of the 2021 NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award and the 2021 LKYSPP Digital Educator Award.

Prior to her academic career, Dr Kaneti worked as project manager for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and equity trader on Wall Street. She occasionally engages as a strategy consultant for non-profit organizations, social enterprises, and think tanks.

Dr Marina Kaneti will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Trust in Experts? Misinformation of Fake News in Global Affairs

Mohnish is a second-year doctoral student at LKYSPP. His substantive area of research are policy design, comparative public policy and governance, whereas domain-wise he has interests in social policy and technology policy. Mohnish has published in peer reviewed journals like the Journal of Asian Public Policy and Policy Design and Practice.

Mr Mohnish Kedia will be featured in the following FOI Session:
COVID-19 Social Policy Response in East Asia: Tracking the Productivist Welfare Regime 

NANDHINI Bala Krishnan is Research Assistant at the Institute of Policy Studies. Her research interests are in online civic engagement and activism, digital inclusion and false information.

Nandhini has been involved in the conceptualisation and organisation of the IPS-NGS-SAM Spotlight on Cultural Policy series which brought together the arts community and policymakers. She was also part of the core team who launched The Ngee Ann Kongsi-IPS Citizens’ Panel on Youth Mental Health. She liaised with external partners, speakers, resource persons, facilitators, and student participants. She also conducted research on the mental health landscape in Singapore which was used to develop an information kit for the participants.

Ms Nandhini Bala Krishnan will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Co-Governance through Citizen’s Panels 

Dr. Navarun Varma is the Assistant Director of External Programmes and Resident Fellow (Lecturer) at Residential College 4, National University of Singapore (NUS). He teaches modules on disaster resilience and water governance in Asia and contributes in design of out- of- class teaching and learning programs.

Prior to joining NUS in 2017, he worked as a Fellow in The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI, New Delhi, India) and was a part of many national and international collaborative projects related to climate change and development.

Navarun’s academic interests are in environmental policy and governance, education for sustainable development, systems thinking and social-ecological resilience. His fieldwork and policy research experience helps him to innovate pedagogies that facilitates students to connect theory and practice, and learn inter- and transdisciplinary themes and skills. He has collaborated with faculty members of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) for his forthcoming book ‘Emerging pedagogies for policy education: Insights from Asia’ contracted by Palgrave MacMillan. He has started working on another book project with collaborators from National Institute of Education (NIE)-Nanyang Technological University (NTU) on ‘Sustainability issues in Singapore’ contracted by Marshall-Cavendish Singapore.

Dr Navarun Varma will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Changing Landscape of Policy Education in Asia 

Dr Ng Kok Hoe is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Social Inclusion Project and the Case Study Unit at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. His research focuses on social inclusion and how public policies shape opportunities for participation. Recent projects examined homelessness, housing policy, minimum income standards and income security. He led Singapore’s first nationwide street count of homelessness and is co-editor of the book They told us to move: Dakota—Cassia (Ethos Books, 2019). 

Dr Ng Kok Hoe will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Case Study Workshop on Singapore's Wage Challenge: Progressive Wage Model and Gig Economy Workers
COVID-19 Social Policy Response in East Asia: Tracking the Productivist Welfare Regime
The Geography of Inequality in Singapore
Policymaking and People’s Happiness: Do we need a new social contract?

Dr Wen-Qing Ngoei is Assistant Professor of History in the College of Integrative Studies at the Singapore Management University.

He graduated with a PhD in History from Northwestern University, specializing in U.S. foreign relations with Southeast Asia in the twentieth century. Before joining SMU, he completed postdoctoral stints at Northwestern and Yale University, and was Assistant Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University from 2016 through 2019.

His first book, Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2019) traces how British neocolonial strategies intertwined with Southeast Asian anti-communist nationalism to usher the region from formal colonialism to US hegemony. It has been listed as one of the best and top-selling books on nationalism and colonialism by BookAuthority, featured on CNN and Forbes as the world’s leading site for book recommendations.

His essays have appeared in journals like Diplomatic History, the Journal of American-East Asian Relations (JAER) and International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis. His JAER essay on the origins of the domino theory won the 2014 Frank W. Gibney Prize.

He is currently working on a new research project on how Southeast Asia’s culture-makers–novelists, playwrights, poets and artists–shaped the region’s foreign relations from the 1970s through the 1990s.

Asst Prof Ngoei Wen-Qing will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Southeast Asia Between the Superpowers 

Nicholas Fang has over two decades of experience in the media and communications industry. He was a senior correspondent at the Straits Times for nine years, and later moved to Channel NewsAsia at Mediacorp as Business Desk Editor and presenter. He was most recently Deputy Chief Editor of Singapore news at Mediacorp. Nicholas is Managing Director of market and social research agency Black Dot Research, which is also the first independent fact-checking agency in Singapore.

Cross-trained in television, print and new media, Nicholas has served as a Nominated Member of the Singapore Parliament. He concurrently serves as director for security and global affairs at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, and also chairs the Strategic Communications Expert Panel at Singapore's Ministry of Defence.

Mr Nicholas Fang will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Trust in Experts? Misinformation of Fake News in Global Affairs 

Professor Paul Cheung is a Professor (Practice) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), and the Director of the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) since April 2020.

Prof Paul Cheung will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Real-Time Tracking of Urban Mobility: Insights for Spatial Planning and City Life 
Technology Innovation and Knowledge Transfer in the Developing World

A Fulbright Scholar, Dr Reuben Ng trained as a behavioural scientist at NUS, Oxford and Yale. He spent 16 years in government, consulting, and research. In government, he was in the Prime Minister’s Office driving evidence-based policymaking through data analytics and Singapore's Smart Nation strategies.

Reuben is an expert in successful ageing, preventive health, psychometrics, the skills gap, and culture. He is credited with creating innovative techniques to measure societal perceptions/stereotypes that are applied to policy, and program evaluation. His research has been recognised by grants/awards from the US National Institute of Aging and American Psychology Association, and has been featured in major Singapore newspapers including The Straits Times, Business Times, TODAY, and Lianhe Zaobao. He is the first Singaporean to receive the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award, the first non-British recipient of the UK Social and Economic Research Council (ESRC)’s Neville Butler Prize (runner-up) awarded at the Houses of Parliament in London, and the youngest winner of an Early Research Career Award from the International Council of Psychologists. 

Dr Reuben Ng will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Digital Inclusion and Resilience for Tomorrow’s Generation

Mr R Avinash is a Research Assistant at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.   

Mr R Avinash will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Transforming Singapore into a Green Finance Governance Hub 

Professor Ruby Huang obtained her MD degree from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1999 and is a board certified Obs & Gyn Specialist.  She obtained her PhD degree in Anatomy and Cell Biology from NTU in 2008 and subsequently moved to Singapore and worked in A*STAR, NUH and NUS. She was recruited back to NTU in 2019 under the global talent recruitment program Yushan Scholar Program supported by Ministry of Education in Taiwan.

Professor Ruby Yun-Ju Huang is a renowned clinician scientist in the international ovarian cancer research and the field of EMT (epithelial-mesenchymal transition). As a clinician-scientist, her research interest is in the plasticity of biological systems. She believes this plasticity also exists in the interdisciplinary learning that opening a dialogue between science and humanities will eventually create opportunities for transformation. Prof. Ruby Huang has thus engaged in several trans-disciplinary activities including being a columnist on COVID-19 policy commentaries and launching Taiwan's first (also Asia’s first) general education course on menstruation. 

 She is currently Professor of the School of Medicine of National Taiwan University (NTU), the Principal Investigator for international collaboration of the Research Center for Epidemic Prevention Science (ReCEPS), and the Director of the Research Center for Social Innovation of D-School.

Prof Ruby Huang will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Designing a Period Course: Unboxing Asia's first general education course on menstruation

Sarah Teo is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Regional Security Architecture Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Her research interests include multilateral security and defence cooperation in ASEAN and the Asia Pacific, middle powers in the Asia Pacific, as well as IR theory. She is the co-author, with Ralf Emmers, of Security Strategies of Middle Powers in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne University Publishing, 2018) and the co-editor, with Bhubhindar Singh, of Minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Mechanism, and ASEAN (Routledge, 2020). Her articles have also been published in peer-reviewed journals including International Theory, The Pacific Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and Australian Journal of International Affairs, as well as in various op-ed and commentary platforms. She has a PhD from the University of Sydney, MSc (International Relations) from RSIS, and Bachelor of Communication Studies (Honours) from NTU.

Dr Sarah Teo will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Making and Maintaining International Order: What Asians Want

Dr Saravana Ravindran is an applied microeconomist with research interests in the economics of developing countries. His research focuses on the formation and movement of human capital. He has a keen interest in early childhood development programs, their direct and indirect impacts, and aggregate welfare consequences. He also studies challenges and potential policy solutions relating to migration, including mobile banking and digital financial services. His work has been published in journals including the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and Journal of Public Economics.

His recent research on COVID-19 studies the effectiveness of government policies, such as lockdowns in South Asia, and their consequences on outcomes including violence against women. His work has received press coverage in media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, World Bank Development Impact Blog, The Hindu, The Indian Express (Front Page), India Today, Quartz India, Deccan Herald, and Livemint. Dr. Ravindran’s research has been funded by organisations including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia.

Dr Ravindran was born and raised in Singapore. He received his PhD in Economics from New York University in 2019 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2019 - 2020. He also holds MSc Economics and BSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dr Saravana Ravindran will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Advances in Health Economics and Public Policy

Selina Ho is Assistant Professor in International Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. She specializes in Chinese politics and foreign policy, with a focus on infrastructure politics and water disputes. Her work stands at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations. She is the author of Thirsty Cities: Social Contracts and Public Goods Provision in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2019), co-author (with David M. Lampton and Cheng-Chwee Kuik) of Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (University of California Press 2020), and co-editor (with Kanti Bajpai and Manjari Chatterjee Miller) of The Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020). Selina has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, including International Affairs, Chinese Journal of International Politics, Journal of Contemporary China, among others. She is series editor (with Kanti Bajpai) of the "Politics and International Relations in Asia" book series under Amsterdam University Press's Asian Studies series. She welcomes book proposals submissions to: https://www.aup.nl/en/series/politics-and-international-relations-in-asia.

She was appointed a Global Futures Council Fellow with the World Economic Forum in September 2017-September 2018.

Selina received her Ph.D. from The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, where she also received a Master in International Public Policy (Honours). She graduated from the National University of Singapore with a B.A. in History (Honours). She was a Singapore civil servant before joining academia.

Asst Prof Selina Ho will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Identity, Nationalism and Great Power Rivalry 
Southeast Asia Between the Superpowers 

Prof Shun Wang is a tenured professor at KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Korea. He obtained the Ph.D. in Economics at University of British Columbia, M.A. in Economics and B.A. in Business Administration at Peking University. His research lies mainly in subjective well-being, economic development, and Chinese economy. His papers were published in many economics and interdisciplinary journals. He is an associate editor and founding member of the World Happiness Report.

Prof Shun Wang will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Policymaking and People’s Happiness: Do we need a new social contract? 

Sonia Akter is Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Her research is situated on the nexus of agriculture, environment and development in the Asia-Pacific region. She has worked extensively on agriculture and food policy, natural disasters and women’s empowerment in South and Southeast Asia. She is presently a Senior Editor for the journal Food Security and an Associate Editor for the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE). She graduated with a PhD in Environmental Management and Development from the Australian National University in 2010, and holds a MS degree in Economics from York University, Canada. She was Scientist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) (2014-2015) and Senior Researcher at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany (2011-2013). She has served in numerous advisory roles and expert panels including the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Singapore and a member of the impact assessment panel of the Seeds of Life program of the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) (2015-2016).

Dr Sonia Akter will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Women’s Development in Singapore and Asia

Dr Sreeja Nair is an inter-disciplinary policy researcher with a specialization in environmental policy and governance. She studies policy processes and tools of governments for designing policies under uncertainty, focusing on the interplay of science and politics. Her research covers issues facing high uncertainty in the future policy context such as climate change, food and water security, and more recently digital transformation and workforce resilience. She is the author of ‘Rethinking Policy Piloting: Insights from Indian Agriculture’ (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and co-editor of the recent book Emerging Pedagogies for Policy Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

With over nine years of research experience Dr. Nair has led and been part of multiple inter-disciplinary environmental policy projects in Asia, specifically studying the impacts of climate change on agriculture and water. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Australia Journal of Public Administration.

Dr Nair holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy (National University of Singapore), M.A. in Climate and Society (Columbia University) and M.Sc. in Environmental Studies (TERI University).

Dr Sreeja Nair will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Technology & Future of Work
Policymaking and People’s Happiness: Do we need a new social contract? 
Politics of Policy Experimentation 
Changing Landscape of Policy Education in Asia
Leading on Climate Change: Advocate, Collaborate or Co-create?

Sumit’s research interests include issues relating to household sustainability, financial institutions, household finance, behavioral finance, and real estate markets. He has published over one hundred research articles in journals like the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies among others. Additionally, he has co-written three books titled Household Finance: A Functional Approach, Kiasunomics, and Kiasunomics2, and also co-edited two collected volumes titled Impact of COVID-19 on Asian Economies and Policy Responses, and Household Credit Usage: Personal Debt and Mortgages.

Prof Sumit Agarwal will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Climate Risk, Green Finance, and Sustainable Development 

Tan Poh Lin examines Singapore’s family and population through interdisciplinary perspectives, including biodemography and health, sociology and economics. Her research focuses on causes behind the crisis of Singapore’s extremely low fertility rate, the effects of national health crises on family dynamics and fertility, and the tension between fertility and human capital accumulation. She is the Principal Investigator of the Singapore Time to Conception Study. Prior to joining the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, she was a Population Policy Officer at the National Population Secretariat (now National Population and Talent Division). She obtained her PhD from Duke University and BA from Princeton University.

Dr Tan Poh Lin will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Designing a Period Course: Unboxing Asia's first general education course on menstruation
Women’s Development in Singapore and Asia 

Dr Shin Bin is an assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. She obtained her PhD from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021. Her research focuses on how built environment interventions and public policy can improve social and health equity. Previously, she worked as an urban planner at the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore.

Dr Tan Shin Bin will be featured in the following FOI Session:
The Geography of Inequality in Singapore 

Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo is an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He received his PhD in Environmental Policy from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. His research interests are broadly in the intersection of environment, health, and development. Some of the topics he has worked on are indoor air pollution from usage of biomass fuels and inefficient stoves, industrial pollution in China, air quality valuation, impact evaluation of water and sanitation interventions, ecosystem services provided by tropical forests. While the topics are interdisciplinary, he mainly uses microeconometrics techniques in combination with economic modeling to conduct empirical research.

Dr Tan-Soo Jie-Sheng will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Climate Risk, Green Finance, and Sustainable Development 

TEO You Yenn is Associate Professor, Provost’s Chair, and Head of Sociology at the Nanyang Technological University. She is the author of Neoliberal Morality in Singapore: How family policies make state and society (Routledge, 2011) and This is What Inequality Looks Like (Ethos Books, 2018). Her current research focuses on cross-class comparisons of work and family, and basic needs and minimum income standards.

Assoc Prof Teo You Yenn will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Women’s Development in Singapore and Asia 

Terence Ho is Associate Professor in Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

Since 2002, Terence has served in various policy, research and leadership roles in the Singapore Public Service ---- as an Economist in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Assistant Director of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education, General Manager of South East Community Development Council, Director of Performance and Resource Management / Director of Economic Programmes at the Ministry of Finance, and Divisional Director of Manpower Planning and Policy at the Ministry of Manpower, where he was also Chief Data Officer. He has also been a Board Member of Workforce Singapore as well as the Building and Construction Authority.

Terence is the author of Refreshing the Singapore System: Recalibrating Socio-Economic Policy for the 21st Century (World Scientific, 2021).

Assoc Prof Terence Ho will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Relooking at Value – Lessons from Covid-19 in Shareholders Approach at Growth and Well-being
Technology & Future of Work 

Veng Sereyvuth is former Senior Minister for Tourism, Culture and Fine Arts, and Senior Minister to the Council of Ministers in Cambodia. He has held broad national and regional portfolios during his public service duty that spans nearly 25 years (1989-2013). Today, Veng Sereyvuth devotes his time mainly in the education sphere, inspiring students to prepare themselves to lead and shape society. Veng Sereyvuth hopes to actively pursue his life mission: to serve, enable and help his fellow country men and women to love and uphold the aspirations of Cambodia.

Mr Veng Sereyvuth will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Village Lessons for a Better Society 

Wong Yee Lok is a Research Associate at the Social Inclusion Project, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. She received her Master in Public Policy from LKYSPP and won the WyWy Gold Medal for Best Student in Public Policy with Best Policy Analysis Exercise. She is interested in the study of social and economic policies to protect people from economic risks and insecurities of life. She holds a degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Hong Kong.

Miss Wong Yee Lok will be featured in the following FOI Session:
COVID-19 Social Policy Response in East Asia: Tracking the Productivist Welfare Regime 

Dr Woo Jun Jie is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, where he works on a broad range of policy issues related to the political, economic and urban dimensions of global financial centres in Asia. Dr Woo received his PhD from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He has previously held positions at Nanyang Technological University, Education University of Hong Kong, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, and Harvard Kennedy School. Dr Woo is the author of the recently-published book Building Immunity: Crisis and Contagion in the City State. His research has also been published in high-impact journals such as Policy Sciences, Policy & Society, and The Review of International Political Economy.  

Dr Woo Jun Jie will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Can Policy & Finance Save the World? Transforming Singapore into a Green Finance Hub
Transforming Singapore into a Green Finance Governance Hub
Changing Landscape of Policy Education in Asia

Yongwook is an Assistant Professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS.  He specializes in International Relations, with a focus on East Asia.  His research interests include foreign policies of China, Japan, Korea and ASEAN as well as broad regional and global issues.  His current research examines (1) the effect of national identity on foreign policy and international relations, (2) Chinese economic statecraft, (3) Sino-Japanese relations, and (4) Korea-Japan relationship.

Prior to joining the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Yongwook taught at the Australian National University and Yonsei University, and held visiting posts at Beijing University, Tokyo University, Hitotsubashi University, and National Taiwan University.  He is a native of South Korea and grew up both in Korea and New Zealand, and speaks Korean, Japanese, and Chinese (Mandarin).  Yongwook was a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow at Harvard, and his research has been supported by various organizations including the Japan Foundation Fellowship and Taiwan Government.

Yongwook received his Ph.D. from the Department of Government, Harvard University; MA (with merit) in international law from the College of Law, Australian National University; BA (first class honors) from The University of Auckland, and BA (top graduate) from The University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Yongwook Ryu will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Making and Maintaining International Order: What Asians Want 
Identity, Nationalism and Great Power Rivalry

Yuhao Ba is an Assistant Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. His research interests are around (1) non-state involvement and leadership in environmental governance systems, with a particular focus on corporate entities; (2) interactions between governance systems and the policy process; and (3) governance outcomes and performance in the context of environment and sustainability. As an APPAM’s Equity & Inclusion fellow, Yuhao is also committed to promoting equity, inclusion, and diversity in the world of public policy and management.

Dr Yuhao Ba will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Synergising Climate and Sustainability Action: Where are Non-state and Subnational Actors?

Zeewan’s primary research lies at the intersection of labor, aging, and technological changes. Zeewan conducts applied microeconomics research in the areas of institutional (Social Security, pension, and health insurance) and non-institutional (technological changes, skills, human capital investment, income) drivers of labor supply/demand decisions. Zeewan’s endeavors in this stream of research reflects her deep curiosity and concerns regarding the future of work and the roles to be played by human workers in the society ridden with fast demographic- and technological- shifts. She focuses especially on how older or other marginalized individuals fare in the labor market.

At LKYSPP, Zeewan teaches Policy Challenges (MPP core), labour economics, and technological changes and work. Zeewan obtained her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management at Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California (USC), in 2020.

Dr Zeewan Lee will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Ageing & Intergenerational Gap
Technology & Future of Work  
Living with inequality: How the world needs to be a little less angry

Dr Zhang Chi is a Research Fellow at the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS). Chi completed her Doctoral degree in Economics from NUS in 2021. Her research interests lie in the areas of International Trade, Economic Growth, Technological Diffusion and Innovation. In ACI, Chi is working on patent-citation related projects and knowledge diffusion projects.

Dr Zhang Chi will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Technology Innovation and Knowledge Transfer in the Developing World 

Huanhuan ZHENG is Assistant Professor in Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at National University of Singapore. Her research dedicates to understand the rationales and impacts of sustainable policy actions from an international perspective. Her recent works consistently provide evidence that climate policy is the new monetary policy for green finance.

Dr Zheng Huanhuan will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Climate Risk, Green Finance, and Sustainable Development 

Professor Qifei Zhu is an expert on ESG and climate regulations, focusing on their financial impacts. He has published his research in to journals like Journal of Financial Economics and Management Science

Dr Qifei Zhu will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Climate Risk, Green Finance, and Sustainable Development 

Dr Evan A. Laksmana is a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His research focuses on military change, civil-military relations, and regional security in the Indo-Pacific as well as Indonesia's defence and foreign policies.

He was previously a senior researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta, Indonesia and the Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellow with the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. He has also held visiting and research positions with the National Bureau of Asian Research, the Lowy Institute for International Policy, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU. He has taught at or given lectures to the Indonesian Defence University, Australian National Security College, Indonesia Air Force Staff and Command School, and others. He has also consulted for the UNODC Global Maritime Crime Programme, Transparency International, and various Indonesian agencies and ministries.

His scholarly research has appeared in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, Asian Security, Asia Policy, Asian Politics & Policy, Defense & Security Analysis, Defence Studies, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, and others. His chapters have appeared in books published by New York University Press, Routledge, Manchester University Press, and others. Institute, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, and others.

He earned his MA and PhD in political science from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as a Fulbright Presidential Scholar. He also holds a MSc in Strategic Studies from Nanyang Technological University and a BA in political science (Cum Laude) from Parahyangan Catholic University. He also received additional training in social science methodology and defence policy analysis from Columbia University (SWAMOS), US Department of Defence (APCSS), University of Michigan (ICPRS), and Syracuse University (IQMR).

Dr Evan A. Laksmana will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Making and Maintaining International Order: What Asians Want
Southeast Asia Between the Superpowers 

James Sheppard is the Head of Impact and Evaluation ad interim at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). GGGI is a treaty-based inter-governmental organization dedicated to supporting and promoting strong, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth in developing and emerging economies. As Head of Impact and Evaluation ad interim, James leads strategic and programmatic evaluations of GGGI’s operations to promote accountability and synthesize learning to support organization learning and improvement. He joined GGGI in 2015 as the Head of Governance and Outreach, supporting the Institute’s governance organ’s oversight and decision-making processes and working closely with the then President and Chair, H.E. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Between 2017 and 2021, James worked as the Head of Partnerships, deepening relations with funding partners and supporting the design of high impact programs and projects. Prior to joining GGGI, James worked at the OECD and World Bank on public governance, including fiscal, regulatory, and civil service issues. James holds a Master in Public Policy from LKYSPP in 2008, done jointly with a Master of Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also holds a Bachelor of Economics and Asian Studies from the University of Western Australia. 

Mr James Sheppard will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Leading on Climate Change: Advocate, Collaborate or Co-create?

Sue has spent the last 16 years working at the intersection of climate change, forestry, and agriculture in Asia and Latin America. Driven by the mantra “We have to do a lot, and we have to do it fast” her career has spanned the public, private and NGO sectors. Working at the Ministry of Environment in her native Mexico showed the challenges of policy making, while her time in NGOs and think-tanks such as Oxfam and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) helped her understand the importance of advocacy and evidence-based research to inform decision making. Her drive to influence change at scale led her to the private sector where she worked as the Global Director of Agricultural Value Chains at South Pole working with some of leading consumer goods companies such as Nestle, Mondelez, and others in their climate change and net zero journeys. Never afraid of challenges, she currently works as a Natural Climate Solutions Expert in the Low Carbon Trading team at bp, where she is working to scale-up carbon markets while ensuring that projects are developed according to the highest environmental and social standards.

Ms Sue Helen Adelina Claudia Nieto Hernandez will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Leading on Climate Change: Advocate, Collaborate or Co-create?

An alumnus of I.I.T. Delhi, LKY School of Public Policy, Singapore and Delhi University, Yugal Joshi is Inspector General / Gati Shakti, Ministry of Railways in the Government of India. Gati Shakti is an ambitious infrastructure development programme of the Government of India. 

He was the Director, Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Mission) from 2016 to 2021, during which he planned, designed and implemented many path-breaking Clean India behavior change communication & campaigns. For his work in information, education and communication, Yugal Joshi was awarded with the Prime Minister’s award for excellence in public administration. He has also served as the Director, Jal Jeevan Mission, a mission to provide clean tap water to every household by 2024. He is also a recipient of Indian Police Medal and National award for outstanding work in Railways. 

Yugal Joshi is the co-author of internationally acclaimed Singapore Water Story (translated in Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin and Mongolian) and Creating Shared Values.  His other books are Ram: The Soul of Time, Women Warriors in Indian History and Boons and Curses: Legend of the Mythological Mother. He has also translated The Phnom Penh Water Story into Hindi. He regularly writes and speaks on culture and history.

Mr Yugal Kishore Joshi will be featured in the following FOI Sessions:
Leading on Climate Change: Advocate, Collaborate or Co-create?

Vignesh is currently the Director, Operations at The HEAD Foundation. Vignesh helms The HEAD Foundation’s education team that works across Southeast Asia to improve education outcomes through; the design and delivery of bespoke capacity building opportunities for educators, the production of a suite of publications, and opportunities for thought leaders to share their insights and perspectives. Vignesh is particularly intrigued by how education shapes tomorrow’s leaders

Mr Vignesh Naidu will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Village Lessons for a Better Society

Ramesh is UNESCO Chair of Social Policy Design in Asia. Previously, he was the Founding Head of the Department of Asian and Policy at the Hong Kong Institute of Education; Professor of Social Policy at the University of Hong Kong; and Chair of the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He has also held teaching positions at the University of New England and Victoria University of Wellington. Specialising in public policy and governance in Asia with a particular focus on social policy, Ramesh has authored and edited many books. His co-authored textbook Studying Public Policy has been translated into over a dozen languages and is used throughout the world. His books and journal articles on social policy in Asia are the standard starting points for research on the subject. He has also published extensively in reputed international journals. He is the Editor of Policy and Society and Associate Editor of Journal of Economic Policy Reform and serves on the editorial board of several reputed journals. Moreover, he has served as consultant to prominent international organizations.

Prof M Ramesh will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Changing Landscape of Policy Education in Asia

Ms Sun Xueling was elected a Member of Parliament in September 2015. She currently holds the position of Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Social and Family Development. Ms Sun serves as a Board Member of the Chinese Development Assistance Council.

Ms Sun served in the Ministry of Education from 2020 – 2022 and had also served in the Ministries of Home Affairs and National Development from 2018 – 2020.

Before entering politics, Ms Sun spent more than a decade in the private sector in finance and investments. She received her Master of Science in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and also holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Economics from the National University of Singapore.

Ms Sun Xueling will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Village Lessons for a Better Society 

An expert in supply chain due diligence, Darren and his team help buyers, suppliers and retailers of forest products and agri-commodities comply with emerging due diligence regulations.

Darren has managed projects across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, focusing on the practical implementation of solutions to demonstrate supply chain transparency and product traceability.

He has co-authored several scientific and trade articles, contributed as an Expert Witness in regulatory enforcement cases, and speaks regularly at international forums including the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Resources Institute, and INTERPOL.

Mr Darren Anthony Thomas will be featured in the following FOI session:
Forests and Climate Change in Southeast Asia: Opportunities and Challenges in a Post Glasgow World

Steve Dettman leads the technical project development and management of Lestari Capital’s portfolio of voluntary forest carbon projects. He has spent the past 14 years managing forest carbon projects in tropical and temperate forests that have delivered credits to the California regulatory market and the voluntary carbon market following the Verified Carbon Standard protocols. He has served as a carbon market advisor to Verra, federally recognized tribes in the United States, and numerous private landowners and timberland investors. In his role as a technical manager, he has developed theory of change models with stakeholders and community leaders to identify project objectives and impacts, led forest inventory field efforts in landscapes ranging from Alaska to Belize, and completed technical modelling of climate impacts resulting from forest conservation and management. Steve holds a master’s degree in Forestry from Yale University.

Mr Stephen Dettman will be featured in the following FOI session:
Forests and Climate Change in Southeast Asia: Opportunities and Challenges in a Post Glasgow World

Milag San Jose- Ballesteros serves as the Global South Diversity Lead and Regional Director for East, Southeast Asia and Oceania at C40. In this role, she is responsible for engaging and supporting C40 member cities in the region as well as facilitating collaboration between cities across the global C40 network. Central to this is working with C40 cities across the region towards ambitious commitments and transformative actions to address climate change.

Milag has more than 20 years of experience working on environmental governance and policy, natural resources management and sustainable development. Prior to joining C40, Milag served as Regional Environmental Governance Specialist with the Environmental Cooperation-Asia (ECO-Asia) program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where she led programmatic partnerships between national and sub-national environmental agencies, and provided technical support to pilot initiatives covering topics including urban environmental issues, compliance and enforcement mechanisms, climate co-benefits and public participation. In this capacity, she worked with 16 countries across Asia and coordinated engagements with various organizations and partners including the US Environmental Protection Agency, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and the UN Environment Programme.

Prior to this, she previously served as a Senior Program Officer with the US-Asia Environmental Partnership promoting clean technology, and as Executive Director of the Philippine member of Friends of the Earth International. A native of Manila, Philippines, she has been based in Singapore since 2008.

Ms Milag San Jose-Ballesteros will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Synergising Climate and Sustainability Action: Where are Non-state and Subnational Actors? 

Mei Chang left the corporate industry in 2009 after being a Graphic Designer of 18 years to start 'soul searching' as a WWOOFer in Thailand & Taiwan. She rediscovered the joy of leading a simple lifestyle with the agriculture communities during the trip.

Shortly after returning in 2010, Ms Chang got connected with GUI. She started as a weekly volunteer and progressively became a full time staff with the organisation since from 2014 till today.

Ms Mei Chang will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Synergising Climate and Sustainability Action: Where are Non-state and Subnational Actors? 

Mr Kevin Lam is the Head of UOB TMRW and Group Digital Banking. He leads the strategy for the Bank’s overall Digital Banking initiatives and oversees the roll-out of UOB TMRW in its key markets across the region.

Kevin has been with UOB since 2005 and served various senior positions including Managing Director and Head of Personal Financial Services in UOB Malaysia from 2011 to 2013 and Deputy CEO of UOB Malaysia from 2013 to 2015. He was most recently the President Director of UOB Indonesia in 2015 until September 2020, when he took on his current role.

Kevin had worked for several large international foreign banks and technology companies in Singapore, USA, and Hong Kong for more than a decade before joining UOB Group. In his 30 years of experience in the banking industry, he has held a range of positions in the areas of strategic planning, business management, product development, sales and distribution, technology and banking infrastructure development and other areas of corporate services.

Mr Kevin Lam will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Digital Inclusion and Resilience for Tomorrow’s Generation

Professor Annie Koh is Professor Emeritus of Finance (Practice) at Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (SMU). She is a renowned conference speaker, panel moderator and commentator. Professor Koh is appointed as Chairman of Prime US REIT. In addition, Professor Koh is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on New Agenda for Work, Wages and Job Creation. She also chairs the Asian Bond Fund 2 supervisory committee for the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and is a committee member of Singapore’s Customs Advisory Council and HR Transformation Advisory Panel. She is currently an independent director of AMTD IDEA Group, PBA Group, Prudential Assurance Company Singapore Pte Ltd and Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd. She previously served on GovTech, Singapore’s CPF, HMI and K1 Ventures boards.

Professor Koh also advises privately owned enterprises such as Flexxon Pte Ltd. and TOP International, and startups such as Dedoco, Elevate Tech, Hyperscal Solutions Pte Ltd, Pyxis Maritime Pte Ltd, RABC Holdings Pte Ltd, StashAway, SWAT Mobility, and non-profits such as Cyber Youth Singapore and WWF Singapore. She has been an investment committee member of iGlobe Partners since July 2010, advisor to CUBE3 Ventures since October 2021, and Asia Food Sustainability Fund since February 2022. Previously held leadership positions at SMU include Vice President for Business Development; V3 Group Professor of Family Entrepreneurship; Academic Director of Business Families Institute and International Trading Institute; Associate Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Business; and Dean, Office of Executive and Professional Education.

Prof Annie Koh will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Digital Inclusion and Resilience for Tomorrow’s Generation

Mr Lim Tuang Lee is the Assistant Managing Director of the Capital Markets Group, overseeing the regulation and supervision of capital markets. The group is responsible for the licensing and supervision of exchanges, clearing houses and capital markets intermediaries.

Prior to this appointment, Mr Lim was the Assistant Managing Director for the Organisation and People Development Group. Mr Lim has also served in various functions, including banking supervision, prudential policy formulation, monetary policy implementation, risk management, as well as strategic planning.

Mr Lim represents MAS at various international committees, including the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). He currently chairs the IOSCO FinTech Task Force, which among others, looks into issues related to crypto-assets, decentralised finance (DeFi), and RegTech/SupTech.

Mr Lim has a Bachelor of Accountancy (First Class Honours) from the Nanyang Technological University (1998) and a Master degree in Finance (with specialisation in Risk Management and Financial Engineering) from the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland (2008). He also holds an Executive Master in Change from INSEAD (2021). Mr Lim was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2017.

Mr Lim Tuang Lee will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Digital Inclusion and Resilience for Tomorrow’s Generation

Ben is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cyber Youth Singapore (CYS), a registered charity focused on developing Singapore’s digital future. The organisation is supported by the National Youth Council (NYC), the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA). Ben is recognised by CSA as one of the champions for the national SG Cyber Talent initiative. Ben is also the recipient of the Singapore Computer Society’s IT Youth of the Year Award 2020, he is recognised through the award, for his outstanding contributions to the technology industry.

Ben has extensive experience in youth engagement and interaction, serving as the leader for a community of over 1,800 youths in CYS. He was previously a lecturer and a panelist for CSA’s Youth Cyber Exploration Programme in 2019, serving as a mentor for over 200 youths. He graduated from Singapore Polytechnic with a Diploma in Infocomm Security Management with Applied Psychology in 2020. He completed his national service in August 2022, serving across multiple roles within the Republic of Singapore Air Force, specifically value adding the RSAF’s digitalisation efforts. Ben was awarded the National Servicemen (NSF) of the Year Award 2021 for his outstanding contributions.

Mr Ben Chua will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Digital Inclusion and Resilience for Tomorrow’s Generation

Mr Jian Wei HENG is the Director of Policy at the National Climate Change Secretariat – Strategy Group (SG-NCCS) under the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). He leads policy efforts across the Singapore Government to develop and implement Singapore’s response to climate change, and advance our interests on the international stage.

Prior to joining SG-NCCS, he has held appointments in various ministries such as the Ministry of Manpower, Communications Group under the PMO, the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of National Development. Jian Wei has experience in a range of domain areas including manpower programmes and policies, industry development strategies and housing policies. He has bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from UC Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Mr Jian Wei Heng will be featured in the following FOI session:
Harvard Singapore Foundation Social Capital Lecture Series: Social Capital to Bolster The 1.5 Degrees ~ Revisited to Reverse Climate Change

Dr Aisha Al-Sarihi is currently a research fellow at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore. Dr Al-Sarihi’s areas of research expertise and interest include clean energy policy and climate economics, policies and governance, with a focus on the Arab region and Middle East-Asia relations.

Following her PhD, from 2016 to 2017, she was a research officer at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Middle East Centre. She was also a former visiting scholar at Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (2017) and Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (2018). Before joining MEI, Dr Al-Sarihi was a research associate in the Climate and Environment Program at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) from 2019 to 2021.

She holds a PhD from the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London and a MSc and a BSc, with distinction, in environmental science from Sultan Qaboos University.

Dr Aaisha Al-Sarihi will be featured in the following FOI session:
Harvard Singapore Foundation Social Capital Lecture Series: Social Capital to Bolster The 1.5 Degrees ~ Revisited to Reverse Climate Change

Dr Eslava is a geologist and a professor the School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.

She earned her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Geology from the University of the Philippines Diliman, a Masters Degree in Earth Systems from the Kumamoto University, Japan, and her Doctorate Degree in Geology from the University of Hong Kong.
She was one of the youngest appointed University Scientists by the UP System in 2015, and currently holds a Scientist 1 rank. She served for two consecutive terms as the Dean of the School of Environmental Science and Management, was the youngest Dean in the 40-year history of the School and the first to successfully shepherd the School to being conferred as a National Commission on Higher Education Center of Excellence for the Environmental Sciences. 

Her services outside the academe extend to the Profession as she presently concurrently serves as the President of the Geological Society of the Philippines, Inc., and the Philippine Environmental Science Association, Inc. Dr. Eslava was also the Chair of the Earth and Space Sciences Division of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) from 2013 to 2017. 

Her research interests in the geophysical sciences include environmental geology, geologic hazards, geochemistry, paleomagnetism and tectonics. Her interdisciplinary work integrates with the social perspectives in environmental science and focuses on environmental management, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and management, and smarter agricultural practices.
Dr Decibel V. Faustino-Eslava will be featured in the following FOI session:
Lim Tiam Seng Lecture Series: Deglamorizing "Resillency": Transcending the notion of strength

Dr Mary Ann Tsao is the Chairman and Founding Director of the Tsao Foundation, a Singapore-based, but regionally oriented non-profit organisation dedicated to ageing and aged care. Chartered by her 86-year-old grandmother in 1993, the Tsao Foundation’s vision is an inclusive society for all ages that optimises opportunities in longevity. Through its four major initiatives – the Hua Mei Centre for Successful Ageing, Hua Mei Training Academy, International Longevity Centre Singapore, and Community for Successful Ageing (ComSA) – the Tsao Foundation pioneers innovative and replicable service models to enable healthy ageing and ageing in place. Its work has inspired and helped inform the programme development of other civil society and public organisations, both in Singapore and South East Asia.

With her deep engagements and interests in the issues surrounding ageing and longevity, Dr Mary Ann Tsao has served on numerous boards and committees of local governmental and non-profit organisations as well as academic institutions. She has also served as technical advisor and resource person for various multilateral agencies, such as WHO Geneva office’s Ageing and Life Course unit, UNESCAP (UN Economic and Social Commission for the Asia Pacific), as well as on the boards of various international agencies on ageing.

For her work on ageing, she received from the government of Singapore the Public Service Medal (PBM) in 2000, Public Service Star (BBM) in 2004 and Public Service Star (Bar) – BBM(L) – in 2015.

Dr Mary Ann Tsao will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Ageing & Intergenerational Gap

Johan SULAEMAN is the Director of the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute at NUS (SGFIN). He is a Dean’s Chair and an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at the NUS Business School. He recently served as the founding Academic Director of the NUS MSc (Finance) Programme and as the Research Director of the Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments (CAMRI). He is a Scientist at the AIDF (Asian Institute of Digital Finance), a Fellow of the ABFER (Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research), a Research Member of the ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), and has served on the editorial boards of international finance and economics journals.

He teaches in various educational programs, including executive education, in courses involving core financial concepts, portfolio theory, equity, fixed income, options, futures, investment strategies, and risk management. His current research interests focus on sustainability and impact measurement in the context of the financial sector, as well as the effects of geographic factors on various economic outcomes. He also works on research questions related to the effects of ownership structure on corporate decisions, the role of various economic agents in disturbing and maintaining market efficiency, and discriminations in labor markets and the financial and corporate sectors.

His research appears in top economics and business journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science. His papers have also been presented at leading conferences, including the American Finance Association and Western Finance Association annual meetings, and the NBER Summer Institute. He obtained his PhD in Finance from University of Texas at Austin (McCombs). He received his Masters of Financial Engineering (MFE) from the Haas School at the University of California, Berkeley, and his BSE in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Assoc Prof Johan Sulaeman will be featured in the following FOI Session:
Climate Risk, Green Finance, and Sustainable Development 

Francesco Mancini is Vice Dean (Executive Education) and Associate Professor in Practice at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). His work focuses on global governance, United Nations, conflict analysis and resolution. He regularly lectures at academic institutions and presents at conferences and to governments on international peace and security issues. He regularly appears on television news as commentator of current international affairs.

Francesco is also a Non-resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute (IPI), where he was Senior Director of Research before relocating to Singapore in June 2014. Francesco is a member of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), a member of the Research Committee of the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) in Sidney, Australia, an Honorary Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute (MEI), an Associate Fellow at the Peace Informatics Lab of the Leiden University, Netherlands, and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Peacebuilding.

Before joining the LKY School of Public Policy, Francesco was Senior Director of Research at the International Peace Institute (IPI) in New York, an independent, international think-tank devoted to the prevention and settlement of armed conflict. Francesco focused on conflict prevention, mediation, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding. He also headed “Coping with Crisis, Conflict, and Change,” IPI’s largest program that worked to assist decision makers in the United Nations, other multilateral organizations, and their member states to strengthen their response capacity to global crises and armed conflict. During his tenure at IPI, Francesco has also conducted work in the Middle East on mediation, and in Sierra Leone and Liberia on peace operations. He has also worked on police reform in Jamaica and spent time in Cyprus working on the peace process for the reunification of the island.

Francesco has published extensively. His latest co-edited volume is The Management of UN Peacekeeping: Coordination, Learning, and Leadership in Peace Operations (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2017). He is also the co-editor of the volume Security & Development: Searching for Critical Connections (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010) and he conceived, designed, and edited the first and only Management Handbook for UN Field Missions in 2012. Francesco has published in peer-reviewed journals, including “Partnership – A New Horizon for Peacekeeping?,” a special issue of the journal International Peacekeeping (2011), “New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict,” in Stability Journal (2013), and “The Company We Keep: Private Contractors in Jamaica,” in Civil Wars (2006). Among his latest policy reports, Francesco has published Lost in Transition: UN Mediation in Libya, Syria and Yemen (IPI, 2016), Building Resilience in Cities Under Stress (IPI, 2016), Managing Change at the United Nations: Lessons from Recent Initiatives (IPI, 2015), Uncertain Borders: Territorial Disputes in Asia (ISPI, 2013), New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict (IPI, 2013). He wrote the concept and script of two videos: “The Asia-Pacific Century,” presented at the Jakarta International Defense Dialogue in 2013, an international conference hosted by the Government of Indonesia with an audience of 1,300, and “Local Change, Global Impact: The Middle East & the World,” produced by the firm which developed Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and narrated by actor Sir Patrick Stewart, which was first presented in Abu Dhabi at a retreat of Foreign Ministers from Europe and the Middle East in 2010.

Since 2004, Francesco has been teaching a graduate-level seminar on conflict assessment at Columbia University’s SIPA program. He also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor for two years at New York University.

Prior to joining IPI, Francesco served as an Associate at the EastWest Institute in New York, where he co-managed the Worldwide Security Initiative, a program designed to enhance international cooperation in addressing new security threats, particularly transnational terrorism. Earlier in his career, he was a management consultant at Group CRCI in France, Italy, and Morocco, focusing on change management in large public utility companies. Francesco earned his Bachelor of Science in business administration from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, his hometown, and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), where he was awarded a fellowship within the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.

Assoc Prof Francesco Mancini will be featured in the following FOI Session:
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Yvonne actively brings businesses and technologies together by creating ecosystems of demand and supply that help companies develop new revenue streams, or benefit from accretive value. 

As the Director, Business & Ecosystems for the BizTech Group in IMDA, she manages the technology portfolio across the 5G, Artificial Intelligence, and Trusted Technology domains. In this role, she assesses market readiness and gaps for the three technology domains and produces strategic interventions to build demand, drive adoption and bridge market gaps. She also plays a role in looking ahead at how emerging technologies such as Web 3.0 will catalyze growth in the near to mid-term lens. 

Prior to her current role at IMDA, Yvonne was the APAC Innovation lead for a Fortune Global 500 consulting firm. She has a deep, abiding passion for helping companies articulate business value through technology, a function she continues to play today.  

Rachel leads Google’s Government Affairs & Public Policy work in Singapore and on a number of regional initiatives including AI, privacy and sustainability. She works in close concert with government agencies and civil society as part of Google being a helpful, responsible and innovative corporate citizen. Prior to Google, she spent a decade with the Economic Development Board, and at PricewaterhouseCoopers Zürich while on sabbatical where, among other account management efforts, she led a sales culture change programme.  Her experience spans strategic account management, strategy development and execution, and as a manager in the healthcare, India and Consumer teams.  In particular, she focused on creating purpose-driven multi stakeholder platforms and is a firm believer in developing strong long-term client partnerships. She cherishes quality time with her two delightful kids, focusing on quality connection with people, aeroponics, mentoring, and grooving to gospel choir music.

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