SPEAKERS

Keynote Speaker

Dr Reuben Ng

Assistant Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore;
Lead Scientist, Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr Reuben Ng is an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Lead Scientist at the Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk. A behavioural and data scientist trained at NUS, Oxford and Yale, Dr Ng spent 16 years in government, consulting, and research. He is an expert in ageism, social gerontology, and quantitative social science, and has been credited with creating innovative techniques for measuring societal perceptions that are applied to strategic policy communications. Dr Ng is the first Singaporean and Oxonian to win the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award, and recently won Singapore’s most prestigious prize for early career social scientists: the Social Science Research Council’s $1-million-dollar Fellowship. He leads workshops on innovation that blends data analytics, behavioural insights, and design thinking, and serves on advisory boards in defence, education, and sustainability.