Tan Khee Giap is a Co-Director of the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) and Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He is also the Chairman of the 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, thereafter 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.
Dr Tan has consulted extensively with the various government ministries, statutory boards and government-linked companies of Singapore government including Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Trade & Industry, Ministry of Manpower, Housing & Development Board, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board, Trade Development Board, Maritime Port Authority, Ministry of Information, Culture & Arts, Economic Development Board, Ministry of National Development, Media Development Authority, Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Singapore Design Council, Ministry of Community Development, Youth & Sports, Singapore Press Holdings, Yayasan Mendaki, StarHub, CapitaLand and Great Eastern Life. 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 Bank Group, World Gold Council, ASEAN Secretariat, Central Policy Unit of Hong Kong, Kerzner International, Las Vegas Sands and Marina Bay Sands.
Dr Tan is the lead author for more than 20 books, serving as journals editor and published widely in international refereed journals. He is the associate editor of the journal Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (US) and is on the editorial advisory board of the journal Competitiveness Review (UK). His current research interests include Cost of Living and Purchasing Power Index for World's 105 Cities, Global Liveable Cities Index, Ease of Doing Business Index and competitiveness analysis on sub-national economies of China, India, Indonesia and Association of South East Asian Nations.
Dr Tan was Deputy President of the Singapore Economic Society, 2004. He served in the 2002 Economic Review Committee (ERC), served as Chairman of the Task Force on Portable Medical Benefits (PMB), served as the Deputy Chairman of the IPS Forum for Economic Restructuring (IFER) in 2003 and served as a member of the Resource Panel of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Transport, Government Parliamentary Committee for Finance and Trade & Industry and Government Parliamentary Committee for Defence and Foreign Affairs since 2007. Dr Tan is currently an Independent Director of the publicly listed BreadTalk Group, Boustead Projects, TEE Land and Chengdu Rural Commercial Bank.
Nguyen Duy is a Research Assistant at the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS). Duy received his Bachelor (Honours) degree in Biology with first class honours from NUS and was also a recipient of the ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship. His most recent publications are: How Do Exchange Rates Affect Foreign Direct Investment Inflows? and Impact of Real Effective Exchange Rate Movements and Volatility on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows into Indonesia: An Empirical Assessment. His research interests and current research tasks being assigned in ACI are quantitative estimations such as Vector Error Correction Model and competitiveness ranking and Simulation Studies for ASEAN-10. He is also being involved in building and computing survey data for small and medium enterprises in Singapore and maintaining the data matrix for Cost of Living, Wages and Purchasing Power Index for expatriates and ordinary residents in 105 cities across the world.
Zhou Shida is a Research Assistant at Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS). He graduated from NUS with Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) in Economics and Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Applied Mathematics. Zhou Shida's research interest is examining microeconomic industry trends to better understand the broad macroeconomic forces affecting business strategy and public policy. He is currently involved in several projects on strategy, competitiveness and liveability, including Productivity Tracking and Efficiency Monitoring of SMEs in Singapore, Annual Indices for Expatriates and Ordinary Residents on Cost of Living, Wages and Purchasing Power for World's Major Cities, and Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Development Strategies for 34 Greater China Economies.
Isaac Tan Yang En is a Research Assistant at the Asia Competiveness Institute (ACI), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS). He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations in 2015. Isaac has also studied at the University of Sydney. He hopes to pursue further studies in Public Policy and International Organizations. At ACI, Isaac is currently involved in monitoring the trends in the cost of living, purchasing power, and wages of both expatriates and ordinary citizens in different cities.
