Dr. Reuben Ng is Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Director of the Data Innovation Group. A behavioural and data scientist trained at NUS, Oxford and Yale, Reuben spent 20 years in government, consulting, and research. In government, he was in the Prime Minister’s Office driving data-driven policymaking and Singapore's Smart Nation strategies. In consulting, he founded an advanced analytics firm, and implemented AI capabilities for multiple economies and Fortune 100 companies. In research, he is an expert in ageism, social gerontology, quantitative social science, and credited with creating innovative techniques to measure societal perceptions that are applied to strategic policy communications. 

Reuben is a noted public intellectual who frequently appears on local and global media, including CNA, The Straits Times, The Business Times, Money FM, BBC, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Forbes and The New York Times. He is an accredited Senior Board Director and holds appointments across the finance, defence, education and sustainability sectors. To date, he has received over 40 accolades. He is the first Singaporean and Oxonian to win the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award, and the first from Asia to be honoured with the prestigious Harkness Fellowship since its inception in 1925—a "reverse Rhodes" for mid-career innovators in healthcare. Reuben was ranked in the top 1 per cent of scientists globally by Stanford since 2024.

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