East Asian Institute - National University of Singapore

East Asian Institute - National University of Singapore

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Chairman & Current Staff

Administration

Mr James TAN Swee Thiam（陳瑞添）Senior Manager

BA (Chinese Studies) (Honours), National University of Singapore

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Mrs Katie CHEONG （洪美娜） Management Assistant Officer (PA to Director & Professor Wang Gungwu)

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Ms Karen WONG （黃玉明）Management Assistant Officer

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General Enquiries: (65) 6516 3715 / 6516 8333
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Chairman

 Dr TEH Kok Peng

Dr Teh Kok Peng retired from GIC at the end of June, 2011 and stayed on as Adviser for two years. Before his retirement, he was President of GIC Special Investments from April 1999 to June 2011. Prior to this, he was concurrently Deputy Managing Director of Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Deputy Managing Director of GIC. He began his career with the World Bank under the Young Professionals Program in Washington D.C.

Director

 Mr Bert HOFMAN

Mr Bert Hofman, a Dutch national, is the director of the East Asian Institute at NUS and Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Before joining NUS, he has been working with the World Bank for 27 years, 22 of which in Asia, and 12 of which on China. Mr Hofman was the World Bank Country Director for China 2014-2019, the country economist 2004-2008, and the Chief Economist for the World Bank in the East Asia and Pacific region 2011-2014.  He also worked on Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea and Mongolia. Before coming to the World Bank, Mr Hofman worked at the Kiel Institute of World Economics, The OECD and NMB Bank (Now ING). Mr Hofman has extensive experience in advising governments around the region on a wide range of development issues, and he has published on fiscal policy, debt issues, and China’s and Indonesia’s recent economic history.

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Assistant Director (Policy Research) and Senior Research Fellow

 Dr CHEN Gang（陳 剛）
Assistant Director (Policy Research) and Senior Research Fellow

Education Background
PhD (Contemporary International Relations), China Foreign Affairs University, 2006
MA (Contemporary International Relations), China Foreign Affairs University, 2001
BA (English), China Foreign Affairs University, 1998

Research Interests
China’s Political Economy
Environmental Governance in China
International Relations
Transnational Cooperation against Climate Change

Dr Chen Gang is Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow of the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. Since he joined the EAI in 2007, he has been tracing China’s politics, foreign policy, environmental and energy policies and publishing extensively on these issues.

He is the single author of Politics of Renewable Energy in China (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019), 

The Politics of Disaster Management in China: Institutions, Interest Groups, and Social Participation (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 

China's Climate Policy (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), Politics of China's Environmental Protection: Problems and Progress (Singapore: World Scientific, 2009) and The Kyoto Protocol and International Cooperation against Climate Change (in Chinese) (Beijing: Xinhua Press, 2008).

His research papers have appeared in internationally-refereed journals such as Asian Survey, Asia Pacific Business Review, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, The International Spectator, The Polar Journal, China: An International Journal, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, and The Journal of East Asian Affairs. He provides consultancy for the Singapore government on environmental and energy issues in East Asia. He is a member of the Association of Chinese Political Studies based in the United States. He is frequently interviewed by media like Bloomberg TV, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, NHK, Channel NewsAsia and Xinhua News Agency. He sometimes gives lectures at the Business School of the National University of Singapore, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, and Singapore Environment Institute. He helps the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy to design the “Public Sector Risk Management” curriculum for MPA students. He is a member of the Global Emerging Voices program jointly sponsored by The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Stiftung Mercator, Torino World Affairs Institute and Australian National University. He has participated in various international research projects like the “EU-Asia Dialogue” co-funded by the European Union and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) of Germany and the Asian Energy Program sponsored by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

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