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NAIR, Sreeja

NAIR, Sreeja

NAIR, Sreeja

Assistant Professor

PhD (Public Policy), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Sreeja Nair is an Assistant Professor (Public Policy) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. She studies how governments learn and design policies under long-term uncertainty, with a focus on the role of policy experimentation. Her research examines how policy trials and experimentation shape decision-making around major transitions such as environmental change, climate transitions and digital transformations. She particularly studies these policy processes in the contexts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. She is the author of Rethinking Policy Piloting (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and co-editor of Emerging Pedagogies for Policy Education: insights from Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) (winner of the NASPAA Outstanding Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Book Award 2024).

Sreeja serves as Associate Editor for the Australian Journal of Public Administration  and on the Editorial Board of Teaching Public Administration. Sreeja holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, MA in Climate and Society from Columbia University and an M.Sc. in Environmental Studies from TERI School of Advanced Studies.

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  • Climate change adaptation

  • Digital transformations and skill development

  • Environmental policy and governance

  • Policy experimentation and piloting

  • Environmental policy and governance

  • Environmental transitions in Asia

  • Policy experimentation and piloting

  • PP 5409 Foundations in Public Policy
  • PP 6702 Foundations of Public Policy

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Journal Articles

3

Books

7

Book Chapters

  • Environmental Policy Dynamics in Southeast Asia: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

    Nair, S., Mukherjee, I., Howlett, M., & Cashore, B., 2023. Environmental Policy Dynamics in Southeast Asia: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back. In Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy (pp. 291-301). Routledge.

  • Policy Experiments and Pilots as Tools for Decision-Making. In The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools

    Nair, S., 2022. Policy Experiments and Pilots as Tools for Decision-Making. In The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools (pp. 282-293). Routledge.
  • Preparing for workforce transformation in Singapore: The role of Technical and Vocational Education and Training
    Nair, S., Lim, S. S., Trenerry, B, Chng, S.,. and Yang, W, 2021. ‘Preparing for workforce transformation in Singapore: The role of Technical and Vocational Education and Training’ In: The Next Digital Decade – Policy Approaches from Asia. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and Digital Asia Hub, Germany. 

  • ‘Policy experimentation as a tool to deal with climate uncertainty’. In Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments

    Nair, S. and Howlett, M. 2018. ‘Policy experimentation as a tool to deal with climate uncertainty’. In Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments. Turnheim, B., Kivimaa, P., & Berkhout, F. (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Policy Pilots for Climate Adaptation in Indian Agriculture: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
    Nair, S., & Howlett, M. (2018), Policy Pilots for Climate Adaptation in Indian Agriculture: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis, In B. Turnheim, P. Kivimaa, & F. Berkhout (Eds.), Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments,166-181, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • The Central Conundrums of Policy Formulation: Ill-Structured Problems and Uncertainty’
    Nair, S. and Howlett, M., (2017). The Central Conundrums of Policy Formulation: Ill-Structured Problems and Uncertainty, In Handbook of Policy Formulation. Michael Howlett and Ishani Mukherjee (Eds.), 23-38, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2016.

  • Policy Making: Pilot Projects as Predictive Methods

    Nair, S., Vreugdenhil, H., Bearfield, D., & Dubnick, M. (2015). Policy Making: Pilot Projects as Predictive Methods, Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, 4, 2623-2627.