Araz Taeihagh is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Principal Investigator at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community (CTIC) and NUS Cities of the National University of Singapore (NUS). Taeihagh was the Chair (2022-2023) and Co-Chair (2020-2022) of the PhD Programme in Public Policy at LKYSPP, NUS. Taeihagh focuses on policy design and governance of emerging disruptive technologies. He is a member of the editorial boards of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Transport Reviews, Policy and Society, Humanities and Social Science Communications, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, and AIMS Energy, among others. Taeihagh is the co-chair of the IPSA's Comparative Public Policy Research Committee (RC30) of IPSA and was an elected member of the College of IPPA (2019-2023). Taeihagh is a member of the scientific committee (Governance) of AI Singapore (2023-2025).
In 2023, Taeihagh was ranked in the Top 2% of Scientists worldwide for lifetime citation impact in the field of energy and in 2021, 2022 and 2023, he was ranked in the top 2% of scientists worldwide for citation impact in 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively. In 2021-2022, his works published in Regulation and Governance and Policy and Internet journals were recognised as the top cited publications for the period in their respective journals. Taeihagh was the winner of the Best Paper of the Year award from Transport Reviews in 2020 for governing autonomous vehicles. On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Elsevier selected his paper on the study of four decades of evolution of policy mix for sustainable energy transition in China published in Applied Energy as one of 50 foundations and future of energy research papers on Earth Day in April 2020. He received the Research Excellence Award in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 and is the recipient of the LKYSPP writing fellowship 2022 and NUS HSS faculty research fellowship 2023.
Background
- Taeihagh earned his D.Phil. researching "A novel approach for the development of policies for socio-technical systems" at the University of Oxford, UK (D.Phil. Matriculated in 2007 - Supervisor Prof Banares-Alcantara) and passed his Viva in December 2011 under Prof. Venkat Venkatasubramanian (Columbia University - Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor) and Prof. Ian Thompson (University of Oxford) and received his D.Phil. Certificate in March 2012.
- From July 2012 to October 2014, he did his postdoctoral studies at the City Futures Research Centre (based in the Faculty of Built Environment) at the University of New South Wales, working with Profs Michael Neuman and Bill Randolph. From July 2015 to December 2017, he was on the faculty at the Singapore Management University. Since January 2018, he has worked at the National University of Singapore.
- Aside from academic studies, Taeihagh has more than two decades of consulting and advisory experience in the energy, environmental, transportation, and technology domains.
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