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Fellowship Scheme
Visiting Fellows
To forge strong links with international thought leaders and to expose our public sector leaders to diverse views, CGL has carefully selected and engaged the following Visiting Fellows (in first name alphabetical order) who will conduct research, teach or write on topics of relevance and interest to the Singapore Public Service during their period of appointment:
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Dr Etienne Wenger is a globally recognized thought leader in the field of communities of practice and their application to organizations. He was featured by Training Magazine in their "A new Breed of Visionaries" series. A pioneer of the "community of practice" research, he is author and co-author of seminal articles and books on the topic, including Situated Learning (Cambridge University Press, 1991), where the term was coined, Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (Cambridge University Press, 1998), where he lays out a theory of learning based on the concept of communities of practice, and Cultivating Communities of Practice: a Guide to Managing Knowledge (Harvard Business School Press, 2002), addressed to practitioners in organizations. Etienne is also a founder of CPsquare, a cross-organizational, cross-sector community of practice on communities of practice. His work is influencing a growing number of organizations in the private and public sectors. Indeed, cultivating communities of practice is increasingly recognized as the most effective way for organizations to address the knowledge challenges they face. Etienne helps organizations apply these ideas through consulting, public speaking, and workshops, both online and face-to-face. His new research project, "Learning for a small planet," is a broad, cross-sectoral investigation of the nature of learning and learning institutions at the dawn of the new millennium. |
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Professor Jack
Knetsch is an eminent economist who has contributed extensively to the field of behavioural economics. His works have appeared regularly in premier internationally refereed journals, such as the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy.His international consultancy projects have brought him to Argentina, Thailand, Lebanon and Italy. Prof Knetsch's consultancy projects in Malaysia included the Penang-Butterworth Bridge cost-benefit analysis and the palm oil pollution impact analysis. He has published two books - Property Rights and Compensation and The Economics of Outdoor Recreation.
Prof Knetsch is currently Emeritus Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University and concurrently Professor of Resource and Environmental Management. He has held Professorships and Fellowships at Oxford University, Cambridge University, the University of Toronto, the University of London and the University of British Columbia. |
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The Honourable Jocelyne Bourngon served as President of the Canadian Centre for Management Development from 1999 to 2003. Her work led to the creation of the Canada School of Public Service. She became President Emeritus of the School in 2003. From 2003 to 2007, Mme Bourgon served as Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), where she played a key role on behalf of Canada in guiding OECD reforms. Since 2007, she has been Distinguished and Visiting Professor Public Administration and Public Service Reform, University of Waterloo and Distinguished and Research fellow at Center for International Governance Innovation. Mme Bourgon also serves as special advisor to the Privy Council Office and she pursues her work in support of the public service and public service reform as President Emeritus of the Canada School of Public Service. As an eminent expert in governance and public sector reforms, Mme Bourgon provides advice to various Governments around the world. |
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Mr Joel Kotkin
An internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends, Joel Kotkin is the author of THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION: America in 2050, just published in paperback by The Penguin Press. The book explores how the nation will evolve in the next four decades. It has received rave reviews from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, and National Public Radio.
Mr Kotkin is Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California; an Adjunct Fellow with the Legatum Institute based in London, UK; and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Civil Service College in Singapore. A highly respected speaker and futurist, he consults for many leading economic development organizations, private companies, regions and cities. He also serves as executive editor of the website www.newgeography.com.
Described by the New York Times as America’s "uber-geographer," for over three decades Mr Kotkin has been one of the nation's most prolific and widely-published journalists. He currently writes the weekly "New Geographer" column for Forbes.com.
He previously wrote the monthly "Grass Roots Business" column in The New York Times' Sunday Business section and served as West Coast Editor for Inc Magazine for five years and continues to contribute to the publication. His work also appears in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Politico, Foreign Policy, The American, and The Daily Beast.
Mr Kotkin is also the author of THE NEW GEOGRAPHY, How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape (Random House, 2000); and TRIBES: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success In the New Global Economy, (Random House, 1993) which traces the connection between ethnicity and business success — how in-group loyalties are becoming the driving force in the new global economy.
Over the past decade, Mr Kotkin has completed studies focusing on several major cities, including a worldwide Legatum study focusing on London, Mumbai and Mexico City; as well as other studies of New York, Los Angeles, Houston and St. Louis, among others. In association with the Planning Center and the La Jolla Institute, in 2006 he completed a year-long study on the future of suburban development. He is currently working on a "new map of the world" for the Legatum Institute in London, UK.
Mr Kotkin lectures widely in the United States and worldwide, and is sought after as a speaker by major business and financial organizations. In 2010 he won the Gene Burd Award for best urban reporting. |
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