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2008 MASTER IN

PUBLIC MANAGEMENTAPPLICATION BOOKLET

CONTENTS

Part I: Programme In ormation Introduction2 Programme Features2 Eligibility 3 Programme Requirements3 Academic Calendar 3 Courses 4 Fees and Costs 12

Part II: Faculty Faculty Pro les13 Part III: Application and Admissions In ormation or Applicants22 Procedure or Application22 Admissions Application Form25 Re erence Form31

Transcript Request Form37 Application Fee Form39 Part IV: Financial Aid Scholarship In ormation40 Financial Aid Application Form41


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PART 1 :: PROGRAMME INFORMATION

INTRODUCTION

The 1-year Master in Public Management (MPM) programme was developed or senior managers andpolicymakers with a proven leadership track-record in public service. Designed to enhance the skillso these accomplished senior o cials, who hold key positions within their organisations, the curriculumprovides a broad strategic view o issues and an emphasis on management perspectives.

Every year, a select group o around 25 senior o cials rom Asia and beyond convene in the MPMclassroom, bringing with them a wealth o diverse experience to enhance learning. MPM students will notonly develop new perspectives about governance but also gain invaluable practical experience during

their attachment to Singapore ministries and agencies. Singaporean students may also be attached tooverseas organisations with outstanding public policy initiatives that per tain to their area o study. Thispractical experience provides students with the opportunity to bridge theory with practice during their course o study. In addition, the programme employs problem-based learning methods such as casestudies, which transcend the mere assimilation o acts and allow students an opportunity to learn by doing. Students also spend a ull semester in either Harvard or Columbia University as par t o the MPMprogramme requirements.

PROGRAMME FEATURES

Several key eatures distinguish the Schools degree programmes. These eatures make learning at theSchool innovative and challenging.

CASE METHODCases are rst-hand accounts o actual situations used in teaching to re-create and dramatise thechallenges that con ront the public o cial or manager. This style o teaching requires the student tolearn by doing, to realise that decision-making under actual conditions is not an exact science, and tounderstand that actions could lead to outcomes not entirely predictable through theory. The result is adeep learning experience that goes beyond the mastery o knowledge and skills.

SPEAKER SERIESTalks, discussions and seminars orm an integral part o learning in the programme. They provideopportunities or the ree exchange o ideas on the important issues o the day, thus helping students togain insights into the policy-making process, organisational development and world a airs. Throughout

the year, the School brings policy and political issues closer to the students by sponsoring such seminarsand lectures. Since its establishment, the School has hosted numerous distinguished visitors, notably: Mr Thomas Friedman, award-winning author andNew York Timescolumnist; Mr Pascal Lamy, Director-Generalo the WTO; Sir Christopher Patten, ormer European Union Commissioner and the last British governor o Hong Kong; the competitiveness guru Pro Michael Porter; and Mr Xiang Huaicheng, Chairman,National Council or Social Security Fund, Peoples Republic o China.

EXECUTIVE PROGRAMMESThe School o ers a diverse set o executive programmes to enable leaders in the public, private andnot- or-pro t sectors to continue to re resh their knowledge and acquire new skills. These programmes,some o which are jointly run with other renowned institutions, are targeted speci cally at busy executiveswho wish to update themselves on state o the ar t developments in speci c areas o knowledge and skills.As the Executive Programmes, usually lasting 1 week, are attended by local and international participantswho hold leadership positions in their organisations, they a ord great opportunities or networking. As astudent, you will have the chance to participate in some o these programmes.


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ELIGIBILITY

To be considered or the Master in Public Management programme, you must have:

n A good NUS honours degree (second class and above) or equivalent (e.g. a 4-year Bachelorsdegree with at least an average grade o B or equivalent), and at least 8 years o relevant work experience; or

n A good Bachelors degree and success ul completion o a placement test, and at least 8 years o relevant work experience; or exceptionally

n Other quali cations and experience subject to approval by the Board o Graduate Studies.

Applicants should pre erably have a good background in economics and mathematics.

Note : These minimum requirements do not imply automatic admission into the programme.

PROGRAMME REQUIREMENTS

The minimum candidature or the MPM is 1 year and the maximum is 18 months. Within that time,you must earn at least 40 graduate-level modular credits (MCs) by completing at least 5 modules atNUS (o which 4 are core modules) and 4 modules at the John F Kennedy School o Government,Harvard University or School o International and Public A airs, Columbia University. In addition, youmust complete an attachment programme and present a paper pertaining to the attachment at thePublic Management Seminar Series.

To remain in the programme, you must maintain a good Cumulative Average Point (CAP) throughoutyour candidature. Your CAP must not all below 2.5 (equivalent to C+) or 2 consecutive semesters or 3.0 (equivalent to B-) or 3 consecutive semesters. I you ail a core module you must retake and pass

the examination in that core module in a subsequent semester. I you ail an elective module you may,subject to approval o the School, retake the module or choose an alternative module and must pass theexamination in the module in a subsequent semester. I you ail any module on the second attempt, or

ail 3 modules in the course o the programme, you will be required to leave the programme.

To graduate with the MPM, you must pass the Attachment Programme and 4 core modules as well asobtain a CAP o at least 3.0 or the best 40 graduate-level MCs.

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

The academic calendar or the 2008 MPM is as ollows:


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COURSES

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE COMPONENT

The 5 modules at NUS comprise 4 core modules and 1 elective. O the 5 modules, 4 will be read in the rst semester (January to April) and 1 in the condensed semester (July to August). The core NUSmodules are:

n PP5301 Economic Reasoning and Policy n PP5303 Public Managementn PP5308 Frameworks or Policy Analysisn PP5311 Globalisation and Public Policy or PP5312 Public Financial Management

I a candidate reads both PP5311 and PP5312, one o these modules will be considered as an elective.Candidates may also choose to read an elective rom the list o the electives (PP52XX series) o eredby the School.

CORE MOdulES

PP5301 Economic Reasoning and PolicyThis course is designed to amiliarise students with the strengths and the limitations o economicreasoning in addressing a wide variety o policy issues related to meeting the primar y economic challengeo any society. This challenge is the necessity to allocate physical, human, and environmental resourcesamong alternative uses to promote e ciency, equity and human wel are. The course is organisedaround key economic concepts, including economic and technical e ciency; in ormation and institutionalpractices and structures; comparative advantage; di erent types o cost; the role o prices; money and

taxes; strategic behavior; time; national income; wealth and resource accounts; technology; market andgovernment ailures; externalities; public goods; risk; uncertainty; insurance; and regulation. These conceptswill rst be explained in an intuitive and non-technical manner. These explanations will then be integratedwith economic data, speci c contexts, and behavioral and other assumptions to analyse speci c policy issues in an interactive manner.

PP5303 Public ManagementStarting o with a review o the evolution o thinking about public management rom public administration

to the manager as leader, the course will ocus on how a senior manager in government succeeds. It allows

or examination o both internal and external management responsibilities and skills, and looks at thepolitical responsibilities o managers rom creating a vision and building on an authorising environment to creating coalitions and increasing organisational capacity. The literature o customer orientation andreinventing government will also be explored.

PP5308 Frameworks or Policy AnalysisThis course is designed to provide students with an understanding o the principal elements o publicpolicy analysis and decision-making. The class will be structured as a seminar and will, in the rst part o

the term, ocus on some relevant theoretical models o policy analysis and decision-making. The secondpart o the term will be directed at substantive policy areas rom both a national and comparativeperspective. Upon completing the course, students will hope ully have a broad perspective o the actors

that contribute to the development o public policy; understand the role o interests - both public andparticularistic - on state decision-makers; and develop the skills to analyse the rationale or public policiesand policy decisions.

PP5311 Globalisation and Public PolicyThe module analyses how globalisation a ects and is a ected by domestic public policy. The objective o

the module is to understand the opportunities that global structures and processes make available tonational policy makers as well as the constraints they impose. Topics to be covered include internationalinvestment, production, trade, security and global governance. Students will be introduced to both

theoretical and empirical materials on the covered topics.

PP5312 Public Financial ManagementPublic institutions to enable excellence in discharging duties to the public in a modern market economy are o key importance. Many countries have adopted radically new institutional arrangements, somesuccess ul, some less so to improve the per ormance o public organisations. Within broad institutionalstructures, the importance o nancial management in public organisations or e ective and e cient use

o resources is increasingly being recognised. This course provides students with basic skills needed toevaluate nancial institutions and plans or public organisations and also to manage public nances. Theanalysis draws primarily on literature rom economics, accounting and public administration and country practices, particularly rom Asia and OECD countries.


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ElECTIvES

(Please note that not all electives will be o ered in any one semester.)

PP5136 Applied Public Sector EconomicsThis course is concerned with economic analysis o the public sector. It covers topics such as: economicboundaries o the state; public choice theory; government budgeting systems and their implications;economic e ects o various taxes; the role o user charges; scal incentives; government expenditurepolicies; tax and expenditure re orm; as well as economics o multilevel government. The course alsoexamines the privatisation phenomenon.

PP5206 Politics and Policy in Southeast AsiaThis course is designed to help students understand contemporary politics and policy in Southeast Asiain a comparative perspective. It will ocus on the question o political stability and various governmentpolicies to achieve this goal. The policies include national integration, promotion o national ideology andvalues, promotion o political development and economic equity, and restrictions on political participation.The course will also introduce various theoretical rameworks in political science which explain the causeo confict and their resolution with special re erence to Southeast Asia.

PP5214 Ethics and the Public O cialThe public o cial is constantly con ronted with choices that have ethical dimensions. An obvious one is

the attempt to infuence o cials decisions by corrupt means. However, ethical issues acing public o cialsare usually more subtle. They range rom the way o cials de ne their political mandate to how they

think about policy options that pro oundly a ect the lives o others. This course will explore the range

o ethical issues and choices that con ronts public o cials and develop skills in recognising and resolving them.

PP5220 National Science and Technology Policy AnalysisThis course examines the contribution o science and technology (S&T) to national economic developmentand identi es the public policy roles o government in science and technology. It develops the conceptsand analytic techniques or ormulating and evaluating public policy towards science and technology,and analyses alternative institutional structures and processes or policy implementation. Comparativecase studies on actual national S&T planning systems as well as speci c policy experiences in selectedadvanced industrialised countries and newly-industrialised economies will be examined and their lessonsand relevance or Singapore discussed.

PP5222 Southeast Asia in International RelationsAs the Asia-Paci c region grows in political and economic power and prominence, its role in internationalrelations becomes more important. This course will provide a basic ramework or analysing internationalrelations, and use it to consider Southeast Asias current and uture role in the world.

PP5224 Negotiation and Confict ManagementThis course considers theories and concepts in confict and confict resolution, and examines the processeso negotiation and mediation. It seeks to apply principles in confict management and negotiation tospeci c case situations and cultural contexts. This course is experiential-based and students will have

the opportunity to participate in negotiation and confict management exercises, case discussions andpractice sessions.

PP5226 Social Policy: Issues and OptionsThis course deals with social policy issues with special re erence to Southeast Asian countries. Thepolicies analysed include those relating to ethnicity, urbanisation, housing, migration, labour, poverty and

its alleviation, education and health. The ideas o state responsibility to provide or basic needs and o asocial sa ety net are considered.

PP5227 Environmental Policy and Natural Resource ManagementThe environment - along with the closely linked issue o natural resource management - is a topic o growing concern throughout the world. Southeast Asia is no exception. The Asia-Paci c region contains

orest, mineral and petrochemical reser ves, the management o which is o great impor tance to the regionand the world. This course deals with the economic principles and political issues involved in protecting

the environment and managing natural resources e ectively. This module is targeted at students who areinterested in environmental policy and natural resource management.

PP5230 Strategic Management in Public OrganisationsOrganisations, including government agencies, must create value through the actions o people. Publicpolicies are only ideas until they are implemented by real agencies acing real constraints. Managershave the unique responsibility o co-ordinating workers and creating an environment in which they willunderstand the work to be done, and learn to do it better and more e ciently. Managers use a variety o tools to accomplish this task ( or example, personnel policy, budgeting, production and operationsanalysis). This course examines these tools in a series o case discussions and readings. This module is or

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PP5235 Development Policy in Southeast AsiaThis course begins by examining the recent history o national development in the Third World andcompeting models o development. It reviews the importance o policy re orm in many countries, andconsiders which policies and circumstances are likely to promote growth. It then examines the role o various sectors, such as agriculture, industry, social wel are, and suggests roles or the public and privatesector in promoting development and providing basic services to its citizens. This module is targeted atstudents who are interested in development policy in Southeast Asia.

PP5237 Strategies or Poverty AlleviationThis course aims to provide students with an understanding o how policy analysis can be applied tochallenges o economic growth and poverty alleviation in Southeast Asia. The course discusses about

the history o economic growth, and examines several theories o growth process. It will examine howgovernment policy a ects the pace and pattern o economic growth and levels o poverty. Students willdevelop a better understanding o how economic principles can be applied to a wide range o policy issues, and will practise applying those principles in class exercises and presentations.

PP5238 Urban Development and PolicyThis course examines the development o urban areas and the public policies that lead to rational ande ective urban structures and institutions. The course begins with an examination o the theories andprinciples that explain the existence o regions and cities. These principles will then be used to establishcriteria or evaluating urban policies and to look at several urban problems. Substantive areas whichwill be explored in the course include land use, housing, transportation, economic development, the

environment, urban public nance, and intergovernmental organisations/institutions.PP5239 Law and EconomicsThe major purposes o the course are to review and discuss the incentives created by legal rules and

their relationship to economic behaviour and activity, and to demonstrate the use o these analyses in thedesign o legal institutions. The objectives will include: better understanding o the relationships betweenlaw and economic activity; improved ability to analyse public policy opinion; urther an appreciation o potential complementarities between elds such as law and economics; and a greater awareness o recent research related to law, economics, regulations, and economic development.

PP5240 Topics in Applied Policy AnalysisThe course provides students with knowledge and skills to understand and e ectively manage di erentaspects o the policy process: recognising problems; developing alternatives to address the problems;devising criteria or choosing alternatives; gaining support and acceptance rom stakeholders; cra tingimplementation strategies; evaluating implementation; and dealing with unexpected consequences. Theclass discussions are contexts in realistic scenarios and current events. They present problem-solving skillsin speci c policy areas, such as health care, environment, transportation, science and technology, housing,social policy, etc. Speci c contents o the course vary rom year to year depending on interests o aculty and students, and current events.

PP5241 Topics in Economics or Quantitative AnalysisThe course examines di erent economic principles and theories and quantitative techniques help ul topolicy analysis. The ocus can range rom statistics and econometrics to survey design decision analysis,operations research and risk analysis depending on the policy issues and kind o theories and datarelevant to the policy discussed. The course may also teach economic principles and their application tosuch areas as health care, environment, transportation, science and technology, housing and social policy.Speci c contents o the course vary rom year to year depending on the interests o aculty and students,

and current events.PP5242 Topics in Institutional or Political AnalysisThe course deals with various ways in which institutional and political analysis can improve the policy process. Among the various issues examined are actors that advance or deter policy agendas, thedeterminants o decision-making, and the politics o implementation. The course teaches students howpolitics and institutional relationships shape the policy-making process in di erent areas o public policy,such as environment, health care, transportation, science and technology, education, housing, and socialpolicy. This course helps students learn and apply leadership, managerial and analytical techniques toenhance their understanding o public institutions and the political environment they operate in. Readingsand class discussions ocus on the application o concepts, rameworks and techniques in realistic scenarios.Speci c contents o the course vary rom year to year depending on the interests o aculty and students,and current events.


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PP5243 In rastructure PolicyThis course takes a multi-disciplinary approach to public policy on in rastructure with a ocus on dilemmasand topical controversies. In rastructure systems are crucial elements in development strategies. However,in rastructure policy involves ormidable dilemmas and has been a ocus o many key public policy debates,including controversies over : privatisation and deregulation; cost-recovery and cross-subsidy issues; access

or the poor to in rastructure-based services; corruption; environmental and social impacts; as well aspublic spending and investment priorities. This module is targeted at students who are interested inlearning more about in rastructure.

PP5244 Public Sector Re orm in Developing CountriesGovernment per ormance everywhere but especially in developing countries o ten disappoints.Public sector re orm is the label given to diverse attempts to achieve undamental improvementsin government per ormance. This course examines ten controversial re orm strategies that dominatecontemporary debate over how to improve government per ormance in developing countries, includingamong others decentralisation, democratisation, and administrative and civil service re orm. It will trainstudents in three areas: 1) diagnosing causes o poor government per ormance; 2) analysing opportunities

or, and constraints on, use o re orms that dominate public-sector re orm debate; and 3) cra ting realisticstrategies rom a public managers perspective.

PP5245 Project Management or the Public SectorThe ability to e ectively manage projects is one o the key skills or managers in todays bare-bones,hyper-speed workplace. Yet, in most public organisations, comprehensive project management training

programmes remain more the exception than the rule, leaving public managers to make up the rules- and pick up the pieces - as each project takes on a li e o its own. This module will introduce students to spearheading every stage o a project: rom developing goals, setting up project plans, assigning andscheduling work, monitoring progress, and exercising control to achieve desired project results.

PP5246 Public Policy and Management o Health SystemsThis module is an introduction to public policy in health care management, with a special ocus on healthcare systems in Asia. It examines the roles and relationships between policy planning, implementation andevaluation processes, and di erent approaches o national systems in providing, regulating and paying or health care. Regional innovations in the organisation and nancing o health care systems will be analysed

through selected country case-studies. Seminar topics on current topical issues include comparativehealth care systems and health sector re orms, private public par ticipation, health care evaluation, and the

uture o health care in Asia.

PP5247 International Economic PolicyThis course is an introduction to international economics and is conducted in two parts. The rst part

ocuses on international nance theory and open economy macroeconomics policy while the second partdeals with international trade theor y and policy. The broad topics that will be examined include: theory o international trade and commercial policies; balance o payments accounting and its determinants; and thebasics on oreign exchange. Extensive examples will be drawn rom experiences o Asian economies.

PP5248 International Confict ResolutionThis module provides an introduction to contemporary cases in and analyses o international confictresolution with a view to understanding responses to confict at international, state, regional andnongovernmental levels. The module covers three main components: 1) confict analysis (sources, actors,dynamics o emerging, current and post-confict situations); 2) policy and material responses (international,state and regional) mandate, timing and scope; relation between Tracks I & II; and 3) capacity development

and peace building: material, political, policy, and training issues. The principal learning objective is thedevelopment o a sound understanding o the range o policy and practical responses to confict.

PP5249 Media, Public Opinion and Public PolicyThis practice-based media and communication course will help them understand media management,marketing public policies, public opinion management, public consultation principles and the applicationo e ective communication strategies. The aim is to ensure participants are equipped to manage publicperception that a ects the implementation o public policies. This module will be taught using the casemethod based on the experiences o a practioner. Students are expected to actively participate in thediscussions and class work.

PP5250 Economic Development PolicyThis course introduces the theoretical oundations o economic development policies, and analyses thepolitical and historical actors infuencing national developmental paths and public policy choices towardsequitable and sustainable economic development. The our main themes covered are: 1) policy rameworks

or economic development in a changing world; 2) the role o markets, governments and developmentorganisations in the policy arena; 3) successes and ailures o agricultural, industrial, trade and social wel arepolicies; and 4) the impact o regional integration, global interdependence and environmental degradationon the national and international policy arena, towards global economic growth and development.


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PP5251 Institutions and Public PolicyThe main purpose o this module is to assist students in developing systematic views regarding howinstitutions a ect public policies. This module is based on the premise that public policies can becharacterised as political equilibria determined by strategic interactions among sel -interested agents insome political processes. This module covers the ollowing main topics: normative and positive theorieson the origin o government; political regimes o di erent types as policy-making mechanisms; rent-seeking models; roles o interest groups and bureaucracy in policy-making and policy implementation;relations between institutions and economic development.

PP5252 Ethnic Politics and Governance in AsiaEthnicity and religion are some o the most power ul political orces in the world. In many instances

they decide whether a country enjoys domestic stability and political/economic development, and morerecently, they have been central in determining whether regions o the world are at peace or at war. Ethnicpolitics can take many orms, ranging rom increased political assertiveness o minority ethnic groups toviolent ethnic conficts, genocide and secessionist movements. This module examines the intersection o ethnicity and politics in Asia. It will explore several dimensions o ethnic politics: the sources o ethnicpolitics and ethno-political confict in Asia as well as the management and containment strategies used

to regulate confict in multi-ethnic polities in select Asian countries. The case studies will include ethnicpolitics in China, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

PP5253 International Financial Policy and IssuesThis course is aimed at providing a more in-depth understanding o important international nancial

issues and public policy challenges that con ront Asia. Focus will be both on the analytics and public policy issues relating to the oreign exchange market, e ects o a devaluation, import and export elasticities;international capital fows; the balance o payments; crisis management and prevention; and internationalmonetary regionalism in Asia. Unlike narrow discipline-oriented courses that only ocus on analytics, thiscourse is interdisciplinary in nature, linking the analytics to real world conundrums.

PP5254 Nuclear Weapons and International SecurityThis course will cover the basic scienti c and policy issues concerning nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and implications or national, regional and international security. The course will help the students

to understand the historical evolution o the role o nuclear weapons in military strategy and internationaldiplomacy and their relevance or civilian nuclear programmes worldwide. The course will provide required

technical and political background to understand the contemporary relevance o nuclear weapons andmaterial or arms control regimes, counter-proli eration initiatives, export control, and counter-terrorism.Special emphasis will be provided to issues speci c to the Asia-Paci c context.

PP5255 Energy Policy and Security in AsiaThis module will illustrate the role o various energy resources (especially mineral resources) in nationalpolicy planning and the perceived security concerns o external energy dependence and imports.Geological resource availability and utilisation will be discussed or Asian countries and regional aggregatesagainst the backdrop o global and regional developments in energy security and policy challenges. Topicscovered in this module include global and regional ossil and non- ossil energy endowment, technologicalchallenges acing global energy uture, national energy security policies o Asian countries, civilian nuclear electricity in Asia, policy issues concerning coal utilisation and the uture o oil and natural gas markets in

the region, and the implications or regional and global security.

PP5256 Financial Regulation and DevelopmentThis course will seek to provide an in-depth understanding o the important role played by the nancial

sector in a modern economy, including the potential contribution o a vibrant nancial sector to economicgrowth and nancial stability. The course will examine the preconditions or a strong nancial sector andmeasures available to policymakers or strengthening the nancial sector. Particular emphasis will beplaced on the special challenges o building strong nancial sectors in developing countries. Much o

the course will ocus on nancial regulation and supervision, its rationale and relationship to nancialsector development. The two broad types o nancial regulation, prudential and market conduct willbe examined and consideration will be given to the characteristics o an e ective system o regulationand supervision. Attention will also be given to nancial crises, their capacity to undermine economicdevelopment and techniques available to policymakers, central bankers and regulators or minimising therisks and consequences o nancial crises.


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PP5259 Crisis ManagementThis course will be ocused on three main areas: 1) the nature and characteristic o crises rom theinternational, nation-state, organisational (including bureaucracies and corporations), and the individualstandpoints; 2) introduction to the theoretical and practical literature on crises, their management andprevention methodologies with an emphasis on negotiation strategies, causes and magnitudes o crises,and consequence management; and 3) a review o key case studies in crisis management and how lessonscan be applied to respond more e ectively to a range o crises and catastrophes.

While government responses to a range o political-military crises will be reviewed in the course, anemphasis will also be placed on a comparative assessment o how corporations have dealt with crises, inaddition to the role o leadership in the heat o a crisis. The highlight o the course will be ocused on aSimulation Exercise or a Gaming Exercise during the last week o class.

PP5260 Intelligence, National Security and Policy-makingThis course will ocus on three main areas: 1) the changing characteristic and nature o in ormationand intelligence in the In ormation Age; 2) the breakdown o traditional in ormation boundaries andhierarchies, i.e., the accelerated proli eration o in ormation through the internet, and rami cations in

the public and private sectors; and 3) the impact o the In ormation Revolution on national security including decision-making, organisational behavior, and the role o the nation-state. Emphasis is also going

to be placed on excavating real-li e intelligence problems including the intelligence cycle that led tomajor ailures, the use and misuse o corporate intelligence, and the increasing emphasis on IT in therealm o intelligence and national security planning.

PP5261 International Security Concepts, Issues and PoliciesThis course o ers a birds-eye-view o international security including traditional and non-traditionalsources o confict, problems associated with confict management, and newly emerging global security challenges including post-911 dynamics. International security is a critical component o internationalrelations but since its ormulation as a discipline in the post-World War II era but particularly during theCold War, international security grew into a more independent discipline. Today, the ever-changing eldencompasses aspects o traditional international relations, military studies and de ense planning, armscontrol and the proli eration o weapons o mass destruction, economic and energy security, internationallaw and regimes, and human and environmental security.

PP5262 Non-state Actors in International RelationsGovernments no longer govern alone. Corporations and a wide range o civil society groups nowcon ound, constrain, and/or complement the work o governments on virtually all international issues.This course addresses a host o issues raised by the rapidly changing roles o governments, civil society,and the private sector. Who does, and who should, make what decisions? How can decision-makers beheld accountable? Can the three sectors work together more e ectively in the public interest? A ter a

thorough grounding in the relevant history and theory, students will undertake a role-playing exercisebased on current international issues.

PP5263 Global Issues and Institutions What roles can and should Asian countries play in a world that increasingly is beset by problems thatrespect no national boundaries and that is governed by global, not just national, rules? This course providesa solid understanding o those global issues and rules, the institutions through which rules are negotiated,and the processes by which global rules are made and implemented. The course covers the broad globalagenda, rom security to environment to economics. Students will learn to design global systems that can

tackle these issues e ectively.

PP5264 States, Markets and International GovernanceThis course introduces students to some o the most important contemporary structural changes in theglobal political-economy and the recon guration o power relations between nation-states and non-stateactors occasioned by the advent o private sector authority in the international system. The course beginswith an outline o the dominant modes o thinking about international political and economic relations,surveys the main theoretical schools o thought, and then examines the contemporary global political-economy; the emergence o international regimes and international organisations, and the advent o global capital markets and their implications or state capacity.


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PP5266 Global Health Policy and IssuesThis module gives an overview o global health policy and issues, with special ocus on changing social,economic, technological and political conditions across the diverse countries and populations o Asia. Itexamines the roles and relationships among major players at the global level, and di erent approaches

taken by various international organisations and national governments in tackling health and relatedproblems. This module will examine global health trends and issues using a macro policy ramework.Signi cant challenges in the organisation o global health programmes and the complexities involved ininternational cooperation will be analysed through selected case-studies. Topics on current issues willinclude:- population health and development, role o international health organisations, international aidand development assistance, emerging epidemics and disasters, cross-border health issues, migrationo health human resources (brain drain), international trade in health services and the uture o globalhealth.

PP5267 Urban Transport Policy: A Global ViewThis course links public policy principles with key contemporary urban transport choices. It aims to helpstudents rom diverse countries become discerning consumers or supervisors (although not producers)o urban transport policy analysis, with enough understanding to engage critically with technical analysts.A comparative policy perspective and cases rom a variety o situations (in terms o income, motorization,city size, urban structure, institutions, etc.) help reveal both universal principles and a need or localknowledge. Key sections include: (1) introduction to undamentals; (2) supply and demand choicesregarding urban tra c; (3) multimodal approaches; and (4) links with urban planning.

PP5268 Institutional Design and AnalysisThis course is designed to enable participants to become amiliar with the role o institutions in politics,economics and the law and to begin to address the consequences o alternative institutional design. Thecourse begins with a discussion and development o the concept o institutions in law, economics andpolitics. These include the notion o a market; the concept o property, an institution that straddles law,economics and politics; and political institutions such as voting systems and regime types. Building on theconcept o pre erences in economics, we examine the concept o social wel are o ten used to justi y political action and the public choice alternative explanations grounded in sel -interest. These conceptsare urther developed in an examination o regulation. The course concludes by examining the bigpicture institutional questions o democracy and capitalism and re orm.

PP5269 Environmental Economics and Public PolicyThis module is based on the premise that the sustainability o the natural environment is a necessity or

the sustainability o the economic system. Hence the module commences with how speci c de nitionsand models in economics need to be modi ed in cognizance o certain laws o thermodynamics. Themodule is divided into our blocks. The rst block concerns the introduction o pertinent concepts ineconomics and their adaptation in the context o the relevant laws o thermodynamics. The second and

third blocks deal with the application o the adaptations to policy issues respectively at the microeconomiclevel and the macroeconomic level. The ourth block deals with the synthesis between microeconomicand macroeconomic analyses and the synergy between policies at the di erent levels

PP5270 Economic Policy in ChinaThe purpose o this module is to examine the economic policies that have promoted Chinas growth anddevelopment during the re orm era and to consider the current policy challenges that now loom. Policy areas to be covered include agriculture and rural development; population and employment; enterprisere orm; nancial sector development; international trade; exchange rate and currency convertibility;public nance; macroeconomic stabilization; social equity and social security; as well as environment and

sustainability.PP5271 Political Risk AnalysisThis course introduces students to the problem o political risk; its causes, modes o articulation,measurement and analysis. Speci cally, the course explores political risk in terms o its impact on cross-border commercial transactions and oreign investment, and analyses issues such as expropriation,nationalisation, mal escence, corruption, regulatory risk, contract repudiation, investment guarantees, andpolitical risk insurance. The course begins with an examination o risk theory, surveys the theoreticalliterature on political and country risk assessment techniques, and then surveys the various orms o political risk through case examples. The course will use problem-based simulation exercises to introducestudents to political risk analysis.


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PP5274 Financial Management or PolicymakersThis course equips students with the undamental concepts and techniques o nancial management witha special ocus on their applications and implications or policy making and public management. The main

topics covered in this course include: undamental concepts in nancial management, which includes timevalue o money, interest rates and bond rating, risk and rates o return, and capital asset pricing model;assessment o business per ormance valuation o bonds and stocks; capital budgeting; derivatives andrisk management; mergers and acquisitions; investment strategy; applications o nancial managementconcepts and techniques to policy analysis and public management.

PP5275 Central Banks and Economic ManagementThis course is aimed at providing an in-depth understanding o how central banks in the regionimplement monetary policy and maintain systemic nancial stability. Particular attention will be paid to

the instruments o monetary policy, the monetary transmission process, infation targeting rameworks,monetary independence and transparency, the instruments to maintain systemic nancial stability, andhow the growth o capital markets and globalisation are infuencing central bank operations.

PP5276 Advanced NegotiationThis course builds on and expands the basic building blocks o skills and art developed in their rstnegotiation course. This course is divided into two sections. In the rst section, students will be introduced

to more advanced material relating to: (1) multi-party negotiations; (2) three-dimensional negotiation; (3)international and global negotiations; and (4) apparently intractable conficts. These classes will occur over several weekends. In the second part o the course, students will be expected to delve into one

particular context (regulatory, ethnic or identity-based, global treaty negotiations, etc) o negotiationand/or confict resolution in much more detail, producing a signi cant paper and presenting their ndings to the class at the end o the semester.

ATTACHMENT PROGRAMME IN SINGAPORE

PP5304 Attachment Programme in SingaporeThe MPM candidate will be attached to Singapore Ministries or agencies and participate in a programmeo visits to these organisations. The main objective o this attachment is to bridge theory and practice,and provide a strategic overview o policy areas and the processes o policy making. The training herewill encourage the MPM candidate to explore actors leading to good governance, and is intended

to provide a hands-on practical experience in a particular area o interest the candidate may have. Tocomplete the attachment programme, the MPM candidate will be required to present his paper in thePublic Management Seminar Series. The audience will comprise ellow classmates, aculty members and

o cials rom the Singapore Ministries and Statutory Boards.

THE PARTNER UNIVERSITY COMPONENT

The programme taps into the established strengths in public policy training at a partner university, or example, the John F Kennedy School o Government, Harvard University or the School o International andPublic A airs, Columbia University and complements the training provided at NUS. For this component,

the MPM candidate will spend a ull semester at a partner university on a specially designed academicprogramme.

The academic programme consists o our modules rom the regular curriculum o ered at the partner university.

Courses o ered may include the ollowing topics (subject to their being o ered):n Economics and Economic Analysisn The Policy Process and Political Advocacy n International Relations and Security Studiesn The Environment and Natural Resource Managementn Public or Non-pro t Organisation Managementn Finance and Financial Management

PROGRAMME CONCLUSION

The 1-year programme will conclude in Singapore, ollowing the programme at the partner university.The MPM candidate will prepare and present a public management paper based on what he has learnt in

the MPM programme. The programme o cially ends with a prestigious valedictor y dinner.


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FEES AND COSTS

The ollowing ees apply to the MPM 2008 programme.Please note that ees are subject to change.

Unless you are on a ull scholarship, you should ensure that you have su cient unds to cover the costs

o your travel to and rom your home country to Singapore, accommodation in Singapore, cost o travel to and rom Singapore to the partner university, and other living expenses. While all students are eligible to join the Schools medical insurance plan, a co-payment element is applicable. You are advised, there ore, to make provision or medical expenses.

ADDITIONAL COSTS

Additional costs include payment or student development seminars, executive training programmes, theorientation programme, student pass/visa ees, and the programme closure event. These costs vary romyear to year, but are currently estimated to be S$7,000 or the duration o the programme.

FINANCIAL AID

Financial aid is available to students. Please re er to page 40 i you wish to apply or nancial aid.


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PART II :: FACulTY

FACULTY PROFILES

Charles ADAMS (Visiting Pro essor)PhD (Economics), Monash UniversityResearch Areas: International monetary/ nancial economics; nancial sector economics; monetary economics; andpolicy issues.

Charles Adams research areas include exchange rates; nancial market developments and issues; monetary policy ormulation; and regional economic integration and co-operation. He has published widely in various

journals and recently co-edited a book on nancial and corporate restructuring in the a termath o the Asiancrisis. For close to 25 years, Charles Adams was an o cial at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wherehe worked on the IMFs World Economic Outlook and International Capital Markets Reports and was, untillast year, Assistant Director at the IMFs Regional O ce or Asia and the Paci c located in Tokyo. During thelast ew years, he represented the IMF at regional policy meetings o APEC, ASEAN, ASEAN +3, EMEAP andSEACEN and also represented the IMF on the Financial Stability Forum Working Group on Highly LeveragedInstitutions. Since leaving the IMF, Charles Adams has been a visiting pro essor at Singapore ManagementUniversity and a consultant in the O ce o Regional Economic Integration at the Asian Development Bank.

Eduardo ARARAL (Assistant Pro essor)

PhD (Public Policy), Indiana University-BloomingtonResearch Areas: Institutional and development economics; political economy; common pool resource; and collectiveaction.

Eds thematic research interest ocuses on the political economy o the causes and consequences o institutions that support development, particularly in Southeast Asia. These include research on the political economy o 1)property rights, 2) decentralisation, 3) public bureaucracies, 4) oreign aid, and 5) common pool resources. Edhas lectured at universities in the Philippines and at Indiana University and has published in the Policy Sciencesand the World Bank Working Papers. He is a sta consultant at the World Banks rural and social developmentdepartments working as a development economist, institution/governance specialist and evaluation specialist.He was also a eld sta /project manager or seven years or an ADB unded rural development project in

the Philippines. Ed is a recipient o the Fulbright-Hays Award, Ronald Coase Institute Fellowship, International

Water Management Institute Fellowship, and scholarship rom the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis-Indiana University. He teaches public management and leadership, and institutional design and policy analysis.

Mukul ASHER (Pro essor)PhD (Economics), Washington State UniversityResearch Areas: Public nance in Asia; social security; and Indias external economic relations.

Mukul Asher specialises in public sector economics and social security issues in Asia. He has published extensively in international journals, and has authored and edited several books. He has been a consultant to the WorldBank, International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization, Asian Development Bank, Organization or Economic Cooperation and Development, and other institutions. He has interacted with policy-makers as aresource person in several Asian countr ies such as India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Peoples Republic o China, andSri Lanka. He is on the Editorial Board o International Social Security Review , a leading journal in the eld. He

teaches applied public sector economics and economic reasoning or public policy.

Paul BARTER (Assistant Pro essor)PhD, Murdoch UniversityResearch Areas: Urban transport policy and practice in Asia and in developing countries; policies or reducing theimpacts o urban transport; as well as international comparisons o urban transport and land use development.

Paul Barters published research is on urban transport with a ocus on Southeast and East Asia, especially Malaysia and Singapore. Building on experience with two major international urban transport data collection andcomparative policy projects, he has consulted on urban transpor t policy or the United Nations DevelopmentProgramme and United Nations Centre or Human Settlements. He is a requent invited speaker on urban

transport policy issues in the region. He was ounder (in 1996) and is now co-manager o the success ulinternet orum, sustran-discuss, on transport policy in developing Asian cities. Paul teaches urban policy andin rastructure policy.


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Caroline BRASSARD (Assistant Pro essor)PhD (Economics), School o Oriental and A rican Studies, University o LondonResearch Areas: Economic transition; poverty and inequality in Vietnam; allying qualitative and quantitative indicators

to measure socio-economic development; rural development policy; and the development strategy in Bhutan.

Caroline Brassard worked as an economist or the Government o Ontario in Canada, and then undertook research and long-term consultancy work on poverty reduction strategies or several international non-governmental organisations in developing countries, including United Nations Childrens Fund in Madagascar,CARE in Bangladesh and Save the Children in Vietnam. She then went on to the University o London, whereshe taught empirical analysis or economics and management or two years, prior to joining the School. Carolinecontinues to consult with various international organisations including the United Nations DevelopmentProgramme and she teaches development economics and empirical analysis or public policy.

Arindam DAS-GUPTA, (Associate Pro essor)PhD (Economics), Cornell UniversityResearch Areas: Revenue policy and administration; public nancial management; and governance.

Arindam Das-Guptas recent work continues to ocus on government nances and their management,particular ly on tax administration. He has several papers published in international journals in this and relatedareas in addition to a number o commissioned studies. Earlier a liations include aculty positions at theIndian Institute o Management, Ahmedabad, National Institute o Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi,

Nanyang Business School, Singapore, and Indira Gandhi Institute o Development Research, Mumbai. He wasalso, by invitation, the rst coordinator o the Tax Policy and Administration Thematic Group at the WorldBank, Washington, DC, where he coordinated the establishment o their knowledge management websiteon this theme and where he was associated with tax re orm operations in 22 countries. Subsequently he hasconsulted with the Arab Monetary Fund, Asian Development Bank, Planning Commission o the Governmento India and the World Bank.

Scott FRITZEN (Assistant Pro essor)PhD (Public and International A airs), Princeton UniversityResearch Areas: Governance re orms and capacity strengthening in developing countries; Vietnam; and Indonesia.

Scott Fritzen specialises in the analysis o governance re orms and capacity strengthening in developing countries.

He runs a consulting practice in programme planning and evaluation, which has consulted widely or a rangeo clients in Southeast Asia. He was part o the team that developed an anti-corruption strategy or the WorldBank in Indonesia, assisted the Ministry o Education and Training in Vietnam on administrative decentralisation,and in the evaluation o United Nations Childrens Funds e orts to strengthen social service delivery systemsin Myanmars poorest townships. Scott was Fulbright Scholar in Vietnam and is e ectively trilingual English,

Japanese and Vietnamese. He teaches political and organisational analysis, public management and leadership,and strategies or poverty alleviation.

Ann FLORINI (Visiting Pro essor and Director, Centre on Asia and Globalisation)PhD (Political Science), University o Cali ornia, Los AngelesResearch Areas: Global governance; international institutions; civil society; corporate social responsibility; and energy policy.

Ann Florinis research ocuses on new approaches to managing global issues. This includes re orm o intergovernmental organisations, the roles o civil society and the private sector in addressing global issues, anduses o in ormation policy and technology. She co-chairs the International Task Force on Transparency, parto an international consor tium spearheaded by the Initiative or Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. Since2002, Dr Florini has been Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. She was previously Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment or International Peace. Her book The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World (Island Press, 2003/Brookings Press 2005) has been praised as a beauti ully written, highly accessible, authoritative explanation o how the world is changing and what we can do about

those changes. Her edited volume, The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society , was critically acclaimedas a superb volume that makes the case or a new understanding o transnational civil society. Her ar ticleshave appeared in such journals asForeign Policy , International Security , and International Studies Quarterly .


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Boyd FULLER (Assistant Pro essor)PhD (Urban and Regional Planning), Massachusetts Institute o TechnologyResearch Areas: Sustainable water management; negotiation and confict resolution; and in rastructure development.

Boyd Fuller is a practitioner, researcher and teacher whose main interests are the resolution o apparently irresolvable environmental conficts and the design and implementation o sustainable community-based water supply projects. Prior to joining the School, Boyd taught courses at the University o Michigan on in rastructuredevelopment, sustainable development, negotiation and dispute resolution, and urban and environmentalplanning. At the Massachusetts Institute o Technology, he completed his PhD on the resolution o di cult,long-term regional environmental conficts. Boyd rst became interested in dispute resolution while managing,implementing, and evaluating water supply projects in Cambodia. Boyd has written and published about theresolution o apparently irreconcilable disputes, multi-stakeholder dialogues at the global scale, sustainablewater management, the use o mediation or integrated coastal zone management, and negotiation pedagogy.In collaboration with the Institute or Social Studies in the Netherlands, Boyd is currently initiating research on

the scaling up o community-based water management projects in Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Henri GHESQUIERE (Adjunct Pro essor)PhD (Economics), Yale University

Henri Ghesquiere specialises in comparative development and applied macroeconomic policy. He servedon the sta o the International Monetary Fund during 1978-2005, the last two years as Director o the

IMF-Singapore Regional Training Institute. At the IMF he was closely involved as an economist, mission head,and senior resident representative with macro-economic lending programs and growth-oriented stabilisationpolicies in 26 countries, including Brazil, Venezuela, Algeria, Egypt, Ukraine, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Earlier he

taught economics in the Philippines and wrote a book on development challenges in South East Asia. In 2006Henri Ghesquiere authored Singapores Success: Engineering Economic Growth, a multidisciplinary analysis o

the city-states remarkably rapid development and inquiry into its relevance or other countries. He currently teaches a course and consults on this subject.

Robert J HERBOLD (Adjunct Pro essor)PhD (Computer Science), Case Western Reserve University

Robert J (Bob) Herbold, retired Executive Vice President and Chie Operating O cer o Microso t Corporation,

is the Managing Director o Herbold Group, LLC, a consulting business ocused on pro tability. Herbold serveson the Board o Directors o Agilent Technologies, First Mutual Bank, and ICOS Corporation. Also, in 2002he was appointed by US President Bush to the Presidents Council o Advisors on Science and Technology.Herbold joined Microso t in November 1994 as Executive Vice President and Chie Operating O cer, retiringin spring, 2001. Prior to joining Microso t, Herbold spent 26 years at The Procter & Gamble Company. In his last5 years with P&G, he served as Senior Vice President o marketing. Herbold authored an ar ticle in the January,2002 issue o theHarvard Business Review entitled Inside Microso t: Balancing Discipline and Creativity, whichdiscusses how companies can improve their pro tability and agility. Also, he recently authored a book (publishedby Doubleday) titled The Fiefdom Syndromewhich ocuses on the tur battles and bureaucracy that underminecareers and companies and how to overcome them.

HUI Weng Tat (Associate Pro essor and Vice-Dean, Academic A airs)PhD (Economics), Australian National UniversityResearch Areas: Labour market modeling; returns to education; globalisation and labour markets; migration policy;and labour market issues in Singapore.

Hui Weng Tat has taught labour economics and policy at the Department o Economics at NUS. His currentresearch interests are ocused on the economic issues o migration and education, the impact o globalisationon labour markets and labour market policy issues in Singapore. He has published in international labour andpublic economics journals, and co-edited and contributed to the book Singapore Economy in the 21st Century:Issues and Strategies (McGraw Hill). He has acted as a consultant to the Ministry o Manpower, the InternationalLabour Organization and was the Associate Research Fellow o the then Singapore Institute o Labour Studies

rom 1991-94. He also served as a resource person to the National Wages Council and was a member o the Economic Review Sub-Committee Work Group on Wages and the Institute o Policy Studies EconomicRestructuring Working Group. He has held various administrative appointments which include Deputy Director

o the Public Policy Programme, Acting Head o the Department o Economics and Vice-Dean (Research andGraduate Studies) o the Faculty o Arts and Social Sciences at NUS.


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Darryl S L JARVIS (Associate Pro essor)PhD (International Relations), University o British ColumbiaResearch Areas: Risk analysis; risk in the Asia-Paci c; international relations; and international political economy.

Darryl Jarvis specialises in risk analysis and the study o political and economic risk in Asia, including investment,regulatory and institutional risk analysis. He is author and or editor o several books and has contributedarticles to leading international journals. He has been a consultant to various government bodies and businessorganisations, and or two years was a member o the investigating team and then chie researcher on theBuilding Institutional Capacity in Asia (BICA) project commissioned by the Ministry o Finance, Japan. His currentresearch is a large cross-national study o risk causality in our o Asias most dynamic industry sectors. He

teaches courses on risk analysis, markets and international governance, and international political economy.

Suzaina KADIR (Assistant Pro essor)PhD (Political Science), University o Wisconsin-MadisonResearch Areas: Religion and politics; state-society relations and political change in Asia; and regional security o Southeast Asia.

Suzaina Kadirs research interests and area specialisation include religion and politics, with special ocus onMuslim politics in Southeast Asia and South Asia; state-society relations and political development in Asia,with special ocus on Southeast Asia; and Regional Security o Southeast Asia with a ocus on non-traditionalsecurity issues a ecting ASEAN such as womens rights and the impact o religion. She has been published

in renowned journals and contributed to several books. In her ree time, Suzaina volunteers at community-oriented projects and has served on several civic boards and panels. She is also actively engaged in osteringintra- aith dialogue. Suzaina teaches ethnic politics and governance in Asia and public policy in Southeast Asia.She will be introducing a course on Islamic rameworks o governance in the near uture.

LAM Chuan Leong (Adjunct Pro essor)MBA, Harvard Business School

Lam Chuan Leong is an Ambassador-at-Large with the Ministry o Foreign A airs, he is also concurrently the Chairman o the In ocomm Development Authority o Singapore and Chairman o the CompetitionCommission o Singapore. His key areas o interest and expertise are in the application o general management

theories and also o micro-economics, particularly in regard to regulation o monopolies, competition policy,

pricing and market e ciency, privatisation o government services, transport economics, and the structuringo public as well as private nancing initiatives. Chuan Leong held the post o Permanent Secretary in theMinistry o Finance, Ministry o the Environment, the Ministry o National Development, the Ministry or Tradeand Industry, and the Ministry o Communications and In ormation. From 1981 to 1984, he served as PrincipalPrivate Secretary to the Prime Minister o Singapore.

LEE Chung Min (Visiting Pro essor)PhD (International Relations), The Fletcher School o Law and Diplomacy, Tu ts UniversityResearch Areas: International security; East Asian politics and security policy; crisis management; as well as intelligenceand national security.

Since 1988, Chung Mins research has ocused on our main areas: East Asian de ense trans ormation and orcemodernization; political-military dynamics on the Korean peninsula; weapons o mass destruction (WMD)proli eration in East Asia; and US strategy in the Asia-Paci c. He has published extensively on Asian security and is currently working on crisis management case studies in East Asia, East Asian leadership, and WMDproli eration trends. Currently on leave rom the Graduate School o International Studies, Yonsei University (Seoul), he has had visiting appointments at the National Graduate Institute or Policy Studies (Tokyo) and theNational Institute or De ense Studies (Tokyo). Chung Min also worked as a policy analyst at RAND, the SejongInstitute, and the Institute or Foreign Policy Analysis. He has served as an advisor to the National Security Council Secretariat, the Ministry o Foreign A airs and Trade, the Joint Chie s o Sta , and the ROK Air Force.He is a member o the IISS (London) and the Seoul Forum or International A airs (Seoul).


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LIM Siong Guan (Adjunct Pro essor)BEng (1st Class Hons) Mechanical Engineering, University o Adelaide, Australia

Lim Siong Guan is Chairman o the Singapore Economic Development Board. He spearheaded the PS21movement in the Singapore Public Service, to trans orm the service or the 21st century and re-orientate it

or excellence in the delivery o government policy. He drives the e-government e orts, and chairs a PublicService Committee tasked to cut bureaucracy, promote economy, pursue organisational excellence andharness In ormation Technology in the public sector. Siong Guan was the Head o the Singapore Civil Serviceuntil 31 March 2005. He held the post o Permanent Secretary in the Ministry o Finance, the Prime MinistersO ce, the Ministry o Education and the Ministry o De ence. He was Chairman o the Accounting andCorporate Regulatory, the Inland Revenue Authority o Singapore and the Central Provident Fund Board. Healso sat on the board o the Monetary Authority o Singapore, Institute o Policy Studies and the Institute o Southeast Asian Studies. He has been a Director o DBS Bank Ltd, a Director o Neptune Orient Lines Ltd, andvariously Chairman or Director o a number o companies which are now par t o the Singapore TechnologiesEngineering group o companies.

LIU Thai Ker (Adjunct Pro essor)Honorary Doctorate, University o New South Wales

Liu Thai Ker is closely associated with both the success ul implementation o public housing in Singapore and the ormulation o a vision or the current and ur ther urban development o the city. He joined the Singapore

Housing and Development Board in 1969 and became Chie Executive O cer in 1979. During his time with the board he oversaw the completion o over hal a million dwelling units as the government embarked on itsHome Ownership or All policy. He also guided the boards planning concept as it changed rom large-scaleestates with localised acilities to nearly sel -su cient new towns or 200,000 to 300,000 people. Thai Ker assumed the post o Chie Executive O cer and Chie Planner o the new Urban Redevelopment Authority in1989, where he oversaw and completed the revision o the Concept Plan; the plan that is widely recognised asvisionary, pragmatic and one which will contribute towards making Singapore a city o excellence. Currently, ThaiKer is Director at RSP Architects Planners and Engineers (Pte) Ltd and concurrently Chairman o the Advisory Committee, National University o Singapore Architecture School. He also sat on the boards o a number o Statutory Boards, principal among them are the National Arts Council, the Housing and Development Board,

the Central Provident Fund Board and the National Heritage Board.

M Ramesh (Associate Pro essor)PhD (Political Science), University o British ColumbiaResearch Areas: Comparative public policy; education; health; housing; social security in Asia; political economy o Asia; and international political economy.

Ramesh is a leading expert on social policies and political economy in East and Southeast Asia. He is theauthor or co-author o Social Policies in East and Southeast Asia, Wel are Capitalism in Southeast Asia, StudyingPublic Policy, and Canadian Political Economy. He has also published widely in senior re ereed journals and is

the Editor o the journal Policy and Society. His recent research interest is in comparative political economy o China, India and Korea. His current teaching interests are in business and government; globalisation andpublic policy; and social policy. He is the current Co-President o the Asian Political and International StudiesAssociation (APISA). He has held teaching or visiting appointments in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, NewZealand, Norway, and USA.


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Kishore MAHBUBANI (Dean and Pro essor in the Practice o Public Policy)MA (Political Philosophy), Dalhousie UniversityResearch Areas: Globalisation; UN issues; America and the world; Asia-Paci c security; and Asian values.

Kishore Mahbubani was appointed Dean o the Lee Kuan Yew School o Public Policy on 16 August 2004 a ter having served 33 years in the Singapore Foreign Service (with postings in Cambodia, Malaysia, WashingtonDC and twice as Ambassador to the UN, during which he also served as President o the Security Council).He was the Permanent Secretary o the Foreign Ministry rom 1993-1998. He is the author o Can AsiansThink? published in Singapore, Canada, US, Mexico, India and Peoples Republic o China and o Beyond The Ageof Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World . He was also listed as one o the top 100 publicintellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines in September 2005.

Jonathan MARSHALL (Assistant Pro essor)PhD (Counselling Psychology) Stan ord UniversityResearch Areas: Leadership, peak per ormance, and the mind-body connection.

At the Harvard Business School Jonathan Marshall worked closely with the aculty, sta , and students to acilitatehigher levels o individuals personal and career per ormance. His doctorate, at Stan ord University, ocusedon the use o hypnosis and meditation to improve mood and wellbeing. Prior to his current appointment, hehelped to build the new psychology division at the Nanyang Technological University. Currently he conductsresearch on how individual leaders are perceived and he teaches courses on leadership development.

Alex MUTEBI (Assistant Pro essor)PhD (Public and International A airs), Princeton UniversityResearch Areas: Comparative political economic development and underdevelopment; politics and the state;socio-economic development and the state; civil society and the development process; as well as bureaucracy andorganisational management.

Alex Mutebis research interests are primarily in comparative political economy o development andunderdevelopment, comparative politics, and economic and political geography. Some o his recent work has

ocused on more speci cally on socioeconomic development and the state; well as on public bureaucracies,governance, and public sector re orm with his main geographic research interests on mainland Southeast Asia,particular ly Thailand. Be ore joining the School Alex was based in Thailand as a Public Sector Specialist or the

World Bank. Previously, Alex also worked as a research associate or the Thailand Development ResearchInstitute and has consulted or various international organisations including the the Asia Development Bank Institute, the United Nations Economic Commission or Asia and the Paci c. At the Lee Kuan Yew School, Alex

teaches (or has taught) courses on the policy process; political and organisational analysis; political economy o development.

Basskaran NAIR (Adjunct Associate Pro essor)MA, East-West Center/ University o Hawaii

Basskaran Nair rst worked as a journalist, ollowed by more than 25 years in public relations counsel andmarketing communications in the public and private sectors. In the public sector, he managed national, regionaland international events and was responsible or most o the national publicity campaigns in the early dayso Singapores nation-building. In the private sector, Basskaran headed the Development Bank o SingpaoresPublic A airs Department and later held the position o Chairman and Equity Partner or the Singapore/ASEAN o ce o an international nancial communications rm. He joined CapitaLand in 2001 and has beeninvolved in real estate investment trusts (Reits) and other proper ty related nancial transactions. Basskaran isalso currently a Board Member o Cisco Security Pte Ltd, and Chairman o Media Development AuthoritysPublication Consultative Panel. He has authored books. His latest book is From Main Street to Cyber Street:Changes in the Practice o Communication.

NEO Boon Siong (Visiting Pro essor and Director, Asian Competitiveness Institute)PhD (Business Administration), University o Pittsburgh

Neo Boon Siong is Founder and Director o the In ormation Management Research Centre (IMARC) andormer Dean o the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a Cer ti ed

Public Accountant (Singapore) and prior to joining the University, he held pro essional and managementpositions at Arthur Andersen, Hewlett-Packard and Shell Petroleum companies in Singapore.


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NGIAM Tong Dow (Adjunct Pro essor)MPA, Harvard University

Ngiam Tong Dow is currently the Chairman o Surbana Corporation Pte Ltd, and concurrently a Director o United Overseas Bank Ltd, Singapore Press Holdings Ltd, and Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd. Prior to his presentappointments, Tong Dow held numerous appointments in the public and private sectors. These appointmentsincluded the chairmanship o various statutory boards and companies, including the Economic DevelopmentBoard, the Singapore Technologies Holdings, The Development Bank o Singapore and the Central ProvidentFund Board. He also held the post o Permanent Secretary in several key government ministries, including theMinistry o Finance, the Prime Ministers O ce, the Ministry o Communications, the Ministry o Trade andIndustry, and the Ministry o National Development.

John PALMER (Adjunct Pro essor)BA, University o British Columbia, FCA, Ontario and British Columbia

John Palmer quali ed as a Chartered Accountant (B.C. Gold Medal) ollowing a career with KPMG, includinga term as Deputy Chairman and Managing Partner o the Canadian rm. He served or seven years asSuperintendent o Financial Institutions in Canada and or three years as Deputy Managing Director o theMonetary Authority o Singapore, responsible or the supervision o banks and insurance rms. He has servedon the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision and the Financial Stability Forum, and on the Council onCorporate Disclosure and Governance in Singapore. John is currently Chairman o the Toronto International

Leadership Centre or Financial Sector Supervision and a director o the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority.

PHUA Kai Hong (Associate Pro essor)PhD (Social Administration and Health Economics), London School o Economics andPolitical ScienceResearch Areas: Comparative health systems and health sector re orms; with a ocus on the newly industrialisingeconomies o Asia; population ageing and services or the elderly; privatisation and corporatisation o social services;and social policies or health and economic development.

Phua Kai Hong holds a joint appointment with the School o Medicine at NUS. He has worked previously as medical care administrator in the New York State Department o Healths O ce o Health Systems

Management, and the Ministry o Health, Singapore. He has served on various editorial boards o international journals, and on numerous national health policy and advisory committees in Singapore. He is also requently consulted in health economics and nancing by many governments within the region, public and internationalbodies, including the Asian Development Bank, Red Cross, WHO and World Bank. Kai Hong teaches healthpolicy and management.

J Y PILLAY (Adjunct Pro essor)BSc (1st Class Hons), Imperial College o Science and Technology, University o London

J Y Pillay has held the position o Chairman, Singapore Exchange Limited, since November 1999. He is amember o various councils and advisory panels including the Council o Presidential Advisers o the Republico Singapore and the Investment Committee o the United Nations Pension Fund since 1997. Joe served in

the Administrative Service o the Government o Singapore and was Permanent Secretary o various key ministries, including nance, de ence and national development. He was appointed Managing Director o theMonetary Authority o Singapore and the Government o Singapore Investment Corporation, and held thechairmanship o several government companies including the Development Bank o Singapore and Temasek Holdings. But he is perhaps best known as the man who led Singapore Airlines rom a small startup with just12 aircra ts to a global industry leader.


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T S Gopi RETHINARAJ (Assistant Pro essor)PhD (Nuclear Engineering), University o Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignResearch Areas: Energy security and policy; science and technology policy; nuclear weapons and arms control; SouthAsian security; climate change policy; and science journalism.

T S Gopi Rethinaraj was involved in various research and teaching activities in the mentioned areas or six yearsat the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, a multi-disciplinary teaching andresearch programme at Illinois devoted to military and non-military security policy issues. He also had a our-year stint as journalist with The Indian Express based in Mumbai, and has written on science, technology, andsecurity issues or Janes Intelligence Review and Reuters. He received a visiting ellowship rom the Bulletin o

the Atomic Scientists, Chicago, in 1999 or investigative reporting on South Asian nuclear security issues. Gopi teaches courses on science and technology policy, energy economics and policy, and nuclear security a airs.

Kenneth Paul TAN (Assistant Pro essor)PhD (Social and Political Sciences), University o CambridgeResearch Areas: Political theory (liberal and radical theories o democracy, civil society, and culture), comparativepolitics (Singapore politics and society), cinema studies ( lm theory, Singapore lms)

Kenneth Paul TAN (b. 1972) is an assistant pro essor at the Lee Kuan Yew School o Public Policy. A multiple-award-winning teacher, he has also taught at the National University o Singapores Political Science Departmentand University Scholars Programme. His research interests have spanned the elds o political theory,

comparative politics, and cinema studies, specializing in Singapore studies. Apart rom several journal articlesand book chapters on democracy, civil society, media, multiculturalism, and meritocracy, his publications includea orthcoming book on lm and television in Singapore. He is currently working on a book on the politics o Singapore as a global city. The recipient o the 1995 Lee Kuan Yew Postgraduate Scholarship, he received hisPh.D. in social and political sciences in 2000 at the University o Cambridge (UK). In 1994, he obtained a rstclass honours degree in the joint school o economics and politics at the University o Bristol (UK) on a PublicService Commission overseas merit (open) scholarship. He is the ounding chair o the Asian Film Archivesboard o directors, sits on the board o directors o theatre company The Necessary Stage, and has composedmusic or some o its per ormances.

Dodo J THAMPAPILLAI (Associate Pro essor)PhD (Economics), University o New England, Australia

Research Areas: Macroeconomics and public policy; environmental economics; development economics; andoperations research.

Dodo Thampapillai holds a Personal Chair in Environmental Economics at Macquarie University, Sydney andan Adjunct Pro essorship in Environmental Economics at the Swedish University o Agricultural Sciences atUppsala. In March 2005, he was included in the list o Eminent Environmental Economists by UNESCAP tospeak at the Environmental Economics Symposium as part o the Fi th Ministerial Meetings on Environmentand Development at Seoul, Korea. He has over 80 publications including seven books and nine re ereedmonographs. He was also awarded the DFG Pro essorship (University o Kiel, Germany 1999/2000) andSLU visiting Pro essorship (Sweden-1999/2000). He has also consulted with World Bank, United NationsDevelopment Programme, Food and Agricultural Organization o the United Nations and International Labour Organization, and the Australian Government. Dodo teaches macroeconomics and economic policy in a globaleconomy.

VU Minh Khuong (Assistant Pro essor)PhD (Public Policy), Harvard UniversityResearch Areas: Economic growth; competitiveness; governance; as well as impact o in ormation and communication

technology.

Vu Minh Khuongs research specialises in economic growth, competitiveness, and development; in particular,policy issues or enhancing institutional quality, local competitiveness, and the di usion o In ormation andCommunication Technology. His research has appeared in international journals and other publications. Hehas been a consultant to the IMF, World Bank, IFC, and USAID. He has also worked as a senior consultant or KPMG and Monitor. He has held various positions in Vietnam: CEO o Songcam Chemical Company, Chie Economic Adviser to the Mayor o Haiphong City, and Associate Fellow at the Prime Ministers Research

Commission. He has taught at Su olk University (Boston) and Keio University (Tokyo). He teaches empiricalanalysis and research methods in public policy.


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Calla WIEMER (Visiting Associate Pro essor)PhD (Economics), University o WisconsinResearch Areas: Chinese economy; exchange rate regimes; as well as economic development and structuralchange.

Calla Wiemer specialises on the Chinese economy. Her research on China has covered a wide range o topics including the exchange rate and balance o payments, income distribution, economic development andstructural change, labor and employment, regional development, and rural industrialisation. Her consulting work with Chinese government agencies has involved contributions to preparing the China Human DevelopmentReport, 2005, to improving GDP measurement techniques, and to aiding cross-border economic integrationbetween China and Central Asia. Her recent academic publications include Asian Economic Cooperation in theNew Millennium: Chinas Economic Presenceco-edited with Heping Cao and articles on Chinas rural taxationand the economy o Xinjiang. Her early academic career was spent in the Economics Department o theUniversity o Hawaii (1984-1997).

WONG Poh Kam (Associate Pro essor)PhD (Regional Planning), Massachusetts Institute o TechnologyResearch Areas: Innovation policy; industrial and competitiveness policy; and technology entrepreneurship.

Wong Poh Kam is concurrently an Associate Pro essor at the School o Business at NUS, as well as Director or NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. He has published in numerous international re ereed journals on innovation

policy, industrial and competitiveness policy and technology entrepreneurship, and has also consulted widely or international agencies such as the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, various government agencies inSingapore such as A*STAR, EDB and IDA, and many high tech rms in Asia. An entrepreneur who co- ounded

three companies prior to joining academia, he is now an active angel investor and/or board member o severalhigh tech start-ups in Silicon Valley, Singapore, China and Malaysia. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UCBerkeley and a visiting researcher at Stan ord University and KTH, Sweden. He received a Public AdministrationMedal (Bronze) rom the Singapore Government in 2005.

WU Wenbo (Assistant Pro essor)PhD (Public Policy and Management), Carnegie Mellon UniversityResearch Areas: Applied microeconomics; organisational economics; and positive political economy.

Wu Wenbos main research interests are in the empirical analyses o institutions and development, institutionalchanges, and theoretical studies o institutions and organisations in the public sector. His teaching interestsinclude microeconomics, public economics, political economy, and organisations. Wenbo was a ResearchAssociate at China Academy o Urban Planning and Design, and a Fellow at the United Nations UniversitysInstitute o Advanced Studies. He has held visiting positions at Tokyo University, Tsinghua University, andZhejiang University. Wenbo teaches economics and public policy at the School.

WU Xun (Assistant Pro essor)PhD (Public Policy Analysis), University o North Carolina at Chapel HillResearch Areas: Energy policy; water resource management; and comparative political economy.

Wu Xuns research ocuses on the political economy o public policy re orms in developing countries. He haspublished in academic journals such asGovernance, Energy Policy, Energy Economics, and Water Policy , as well as inmultiple edited volumes. His current research interests include electricity sector restructuring in Southeast Asia,corporate governance and corruption, health policy re orms in Asia, and confict resolution in internationalriver basins. He has consulted or various international organisations such as the World Bank and InternationalVaccine Institute. He teaches environmental policy, natural resource management, policy research methods,policy evaluation, and cost-bene t analysis.

Stavros YIANNOUKA (Vice-Dean, Executive Education and Development)MBA (Distinction), London Business School

Stavros Yiannouka joined the management team o the School in June 2005. His areas o interest includeleadership, organisational change and the impact o technology on the competitive dynamics o industry.

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