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Mr Manu Bhaskaran
Manu Bhaskaran is the Director and CEO of Centennial Asia Advisors, Singapore. He also heads the Group's economic research practice which provides in-depth analysis of macro trends in Asia. Manu has spent nearly 30 years analysing political and economic trends in Asia, first working for the Singapore government in the area of regional security and then for 12 years as Chief Economist and Chief Strategist for Asia of SG Investment Bank, the international investment banking arm of Societe Generale.
A well-regarded commentator on Asian financial and economic affairs, Manu is a frequent speaker on Asian issues at major conferences and is a regular columnist for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japan) and The Edge (Singapore). In addition to writing and editing, he is a leading figure in a number of economic institutions. These include the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) where he is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, the Economic Society of Singapore, of which he is Vice President and also the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), where he serves as Council Member. Manu is also a Fellow at CSC.
Manu graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge University and holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University. During his appointment as CSC Fellow, Manu will be teaching and advising research work on the political economy of Asia, economic growth and development and innovation & entrepreneurship issues.
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Prof Neo Boon Siong
is Professor and former Dean of the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has also taught at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in the National University of Singapore, and is a Fellow at CSC and the Centre for Liveable Cities. He currently serves as Director on the Boards of OCBC Bank, Keppel Offshore and Marine Ltd, and J Lauritzen Singapore.
Prof Neo is a Certified Public Accountant (Singapore) and holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) from the National University of Singapore, and MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Prior to joining the University, he held professional and management positions in Hewlett-Packard and Shell Petroleum companies in Singapore.
Prof Neo is a leading expert in business strategy, process management and organizational change. He has advised many major corporations, facilitated strategy workshops, and led management development programs for global enterprises, including IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Jurong Town Corporation, and Ministries of Defence, Finance, Home Affairs, and Labour.
His business strategy and IT management research have been published in many international journals. His publications include the book, Exploiting IT for Business Competitiveness (Addison-Wesley, 1996) which was a recipient of the "Highly Commended Award" in the 1996 Singapore Book Awards; a paper on IT Infrastructure that won the "Best Paper Award" at the 17th International Conference on Information Systems in 1996 in the USA, which is the most prestigious research conference in Information Systems in the world; and more recently, the book, Dynamic Governance: Embedding Culture, Capabilities and Change (World Scientific, 2007).
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Professor Paul Cheung
is currently Professor of Social Policy and Analytics at the National University of Singapore. He returned to Singapore in January 2013 after serving for almost 9 years (2014-12) as the Director of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
At the UN, he facilitated the development of the global statistical and geospatial information system and coordinated the work of the United Nations Statistical Commission, the UN Conference on the Standardization of Geographic names, and the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management. He supervised a programme of work that included the development of international standards, the dissemination of global data, and the provision of technical advice to member states in the development of national information systems.
Prior to his appointment, Professor Cheung has served as Chief Statistician of the Government of Singapore (1991-2004) and managed the Department of Statistics Singapore. He was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Gold) 'Pingat Pentadbiran Awam' in 2001.
Professor Cheung is well known globally for his work on improving global information systems. Currently, he is a senior adviser to the National Bureau of Statistics, China. He is also the Co-Chair of the International Technical Advisory Board for Myanmar's 2014 Population and Housing Census. He has received the following national and professional awards: The Von Neumann-Spallart Medal awarded by the International Institute of Statistics (1999); The Honorary Doctorate Degree by the National University of Mongolia (2008); the 'African Statistics Award' by the Economic Commission for Africa in 2009;, the UN21 Award by the UN Secretary General (2010);, , and the Royal Order of Sahametrei (Grand Officer) by the Government of Cambodia (2012).
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Mrs Pek Siok Ching
joined the Singapore Administrative Service in 1975 and has served in several Ministries. She has held various senior appointments at the Ministry of Education, including Director of the then Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore and the Institute of East Asian Philosophies. She was also Deputy Secretary at the Ministries of Finance and Manpower; as well as the Public Service Division where she was concurrently Secretary of the Public Service Commission. Her last position was with the Nanyang Technological University as its Chief Planning Officer and Registrar. Through her different postings, Mrs Pek has developed extensive expertise in planning, policy formulation and government administration. Mrs Pek is also a Fellow at CSC.
Mrs Pek was educated at the University of Singapore where she graduated with First Class Honours in Chemistry. She also has a Masters in Management Science from Imperial College, University of London.
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Dr David Skilling
is the Director of Landfall Strategy Group.
David leads Landfall Strategy Group, a Singapore-based company that provides advice on strategy issues to governments. David is currently Senior Advisor, Strategy to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs in New Zealand, and is also a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company in Singapore on public sector and economic issues. He was previously a consultant with McKinsey and a Senior Fellow with the McKinsey Global Institute. Prior to joining McKinsey at the start of 2009, David was the founding chief executive of the New Zealand Institute, a privately funded, non-partisan think tank, which focused on achieving significant impact in strategically important areas of policy including savings policy, broadband policy, external strategy, and climate change policy. David was formerly a Principal Advisor at the New Zealand Treasury, where he worked primarily on economic growth issues.
David has a Ph.D. in Public Policy and a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard University. As a doctoral student at Harvard, he was assigned by Professor Zeckhauser of the Kennedy School of Government to interview then-DPM Lee in 2001 on the principles behind policy development in Singapore. During his appointment as a CSC Fellow, David will be working with the Centre for Public Economics on economic strategy in a changing world and public sector management issues.
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Mr Yeoh Lam Keong
is the Vice-President of the Economic Society of Singapore (ESS) where he heads the ESS Policy Sub-committee.
Lam Keong worked as a senior economist and strategist at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation for 26 years where he was Director of Economics and Strategy and Chief Economist from October 2000 to June 2011. He brings with him a wealth of experience in the areas of global economic analysis and investment research management, as well as global currency/ asset allocation strategy.
He is also the co-author of academic policy publications such as "Asian currencies in the context of export-oriented industrial development" (in "Exchange Rate Policies in Emerging Asian Countries", Routledge Studies on Growth Economies of Asia, 1999), as well as author of articles on problems of globalization and social policy like "Re-thinking a New Social Compact for Singapore" (Ethos, Journal of the Singapore Civil Service College, Issue 3, October 2007). He is also a Fellow at CSC.
Lam Keong graduated with a BSc (Econs) and MSc (Econs) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. During his appointment, he will work with CSC on courses and research relating to our fiscal, social and economic policies, particularly on the environment, social mobility, productivity and wages.
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