Tan Khee Giap is the Co-Director of Asia Competitiveness Institute and Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He is also the Chairman of Singapore National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation. Upon graduating with a PhD from University of East Anglia, England, in 1987 under the Overseas Research Scheme awarded by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom, he joined the banking sector as a treasury manager and served as secretary to the Assets and Liabilities Committee for three years. There after, he taught at the Department of Economics and Statistics, National University of Singapore, 1990–1993. Dr Tan joined Nanyang Technological University in 1993 and was Associate Dean, Graduate Studies Office, 2007–2009. He is now with Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Dr Tan has consulted extensively with the various government ministries, statutory boards and government-linked companies of Singapore government on policies concerning financial, fiscal, trade, tourism, public housing, labor, telecommunication, tourism, liveable cities, creative industry, media, community development, airport and seaport activities. He has also served as a consultant to international agencies such as the Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank Institute, United Nations Industrial Development Group, World Gold Council, ASEAN Secretariat, Central Policy Unit of Hong Kong, Kerzner International, Las Vegas Sands, Marina Bay Sands, and other international financial institutions and multinational corporations. Dr Tan is the lead author of eight books and has published in international refereed journals such as Applied Economics (UK), ASEAN Economic Bulletin (Singapore), Asian Economic Papers (US), Competitiveness Review (UK), International Journal of Business Competition and Growth (UK), International Journal of Chinese Culture and Business Management (UK), International Journal of Economics and Business Research (UK), International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management (UK), Journal of Centrum Cathedra The Business and Economics Research Journal (Peru), Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy (UK), Journal of Southeast Asian Economies (Singapore), Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (US), and World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development (Switzerland). He is the associate editor of the journal Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (US). His current research interests include econometric forecasting, Cost of Living Index, Global Liveable Cities Index and competitiveness analysis on 31 provinces in China, 35 states in India and ASEAN-10 economies.
Linda Low was Associate Professor, Business School and Economics Department, National University of Singapore; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore; and economic advisor, Abu Dhabi government. Now in the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI), her research interests and publications include public sector economics and public policy, human resources development, international trade and regionalism, regional economies in Asia-Pacific and Middle East. She has consulted for local agencies in ministries, public and private sectors and internationally like Asian Development Bank, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia-Pacific (UNESCAP) among others. Her latest books are Abu Dhabi's Vision 2030 (2012) and GCC–ASEAN (2011).
Kartik Rao is a Research Associate at the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS). Kartik received his undergraduate education in Engineering with distinction from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), India and his Master's in Business Administration from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. At ACI, Kartik is currently engaged with research on the sub-national and regional competitiveness studies on India. His research also covers studying agricultural productivity across the Indian states. He has co-authored a journal paper on India's sub-national competitiveness in the International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, and the book "Annual Analysis of Competitiveness, Development Strategies and Public Policies on 35 States and Federal territories of India: 2000–2010". Previously, Kartik gained diverse business experience working in the financial sector with ABN AMRO Bank and UBS Global Asset Management. Additionally, Kartik previously interned with Portelet Asia Private Limited, Singapore where he worked as an investment analyst for private equity investments in clean energy within Southeast Asia. His research interests include development economics, business economics and public policy.
Adjunct Professor Tan Kong Yam is presently the Co-Director of the Asia Competitiveness Institute. He is also Professor of Economics at the Nanyang Technological University. From June 2002 to June 2005, he was a senior economist at the World Bank office in Beijing where he worked on issues of macro stabilization, integration of the fragmented domestic market, banking reform, international trade and investment, energy security as well as regional inequality. In 2004, he was a member of the World Bank expert group on the eleventh five year plan (2006–2010) for the State Council in China. The expert group provided analysis and policy recommendations on urbanization, regional inequality, innovation policy, energy and water policy as well as strategy on banking reform to the Chinese government. Prior to that, he was the chief economist of the Singapore government (1999–2002), Head, Department of Business Policy, Faculty of Business Administration at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is a graduate of Princeton (1975–79, class of 1931 scholar, Paul Volcker Thesis prize) and Stanford University (1980–83), where he completed his Master and PhD in three years. Prior to joining NUS, he has worked at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, World Bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and was the Director of Research at the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Singapore. His research interests are in international trade and finance, economic and business trends in the Asia Pacific region and economic reforms in China. He has published ten books and numerous articles in major international journals including American Economic Review, World Bank Economic Review, Long Range Planning, Australian Journal of Management etc on economic and business issues in the Asia Pacific region. He served as board member at the Singapore Central Provident Fund Board (1984–96) and the National Productivity Board (1989–90). He has also consulted for many organizations including Temasek, GIC, Citigroup, IBM, ATT, BP, ABN-AMRO, Ikea, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, People's Bank of China, EDB, Areva, Capitaland, Guangdong provincial government, Samsung, Mauritius Government, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Mobil, Singapore Technology, etc.
