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Dodo J Thampapillai
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Associate Professor
PhD (Economics), University of New England, Australia
Dodo Thampapillai is an economist at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He also holds a Personal Chair in Environmental Economics at Macquarie University and an Adjunct Professorship in in the same field at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Uppsala. In 2005, he was included in the list of Eminent Environmental Economists by UNESCAP and was previously a member of the UNEP Expert Group in Environmental Economics. He has over 100 publications including seven books and nine refereed monographs.
He was also awarded the DFG Professorship (University of Kiel, Germany 1999/2000) and SLU visiting Professorship (Sweden- 1999/2000). |
He has also consulted with World Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and International Labour Organization, and the Australian Government. Dodo's current research focus is on Macroeconomics and the Environment and the revised edition of his text Environmental Economics: Concepts Methods and Policies (Oxford University Press 2002, 2006)
DID: +(65) 6516 4844
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Shreekant Gupta
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Associate Professor
PhD (Economics), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Shreekant Gupta has worked as a researcher, policymaker and consultant on environment, natural resources, energy and urban issues. His teaching and research interests are in applied microeconomics and econometrics in these contexts. He has taught at the universities of Delhi, Maryland and at Jawaharlal Nehru University and NUS. In addition, he has been Fulbright Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Shastri Fellow at Queens University, Canada.
Shreekant’s policy experience includes Directorship of the National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi (in the rank of Additional Secretary to the Government of India). He has worked at the World Bank at Washington DC, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and The Policy Group (both at New Delhi). |
In addition, he has consulted with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, OECD, UNEP and Resources for the Future. Shreekant has served on several national and international committees on environmental and urban issues including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
DID: +(65) 6516 6796
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Boyd Fuller
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Assistant Professor
PhD (Urban and Regional Planning), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boyd Fuller is an Assistant Professor at the LKY School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the resolution of difficult water, environmental, and land conflicts when stakeholders have apparently irreconcilable differences in values, identities, or culture. Boyd’s current research probes the use of traditional and innovative dispute resolution techniques for public disputes in post-conflict areas of Southeast Asia.
His previous research examined the mediation of intractable environmental conflicts in the United States. Boyd has eight years of experience designing and implementing water supply projects in developing countries. He completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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DID: +(65) 6516 4193
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Eduardo Araral
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Assistant Professor
PhD (Public Policy) Indiana University-Bloomington
Ed’s thematic research interest focuses on the political economy of the causes and consequences of institutions that support development, particularly in Southeast Asia. These include research on the political economy of 1) property rights, 2) decentralisation, 3) public bureaucracies, 4) foreign aid, and 5) common pool resources. Ed has lectured at universities in the Philippines and at Indiana University and has published in the Policy Sciences and the World Bank Working Papers. He is a staff consultant at the World Bank’s rural and social development departments working as a development economist, institution/governance specialist and evaluation specialist.
He was also a field staff/project manager for 7 years for an ADB-funded rural development project in the Philippines.
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Ed is a recipient of the Fulbright-Hays Award, Ronald Coase Institute Fellowship, International Water Management Institute Fellowship, and scholarship from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis-Indiana University. He teaches Public Management and Leadership, and Institutional Design and Policy Analysis.
DID:+(65) 6516 4220
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T S Gopi Rethinaraj
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Assistant Professor
PhD (Nuclear Engineering), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
T S Gopi Rethinaraj was involved in various research and teaching activities in the mentioned areas for 6 years at the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, a multi-disciplinary teaching and research programme at Illinois devoted to military and non-military security policy issues. He also had a 4-year stint as journalist with The Indian Express based in Mumbai, and has written on science, technology, and security issues for Jane’s Intelligence Review and Reuters. He received a visiting fellowship from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chicago, in 1999 for investigative reporting on South Asian nuclear security issues. Gopi teaches courses on science and technology policy, energy economics and policy, and nuclear security affairs.
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DID: +(65) 6516 8250
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Wu Xun
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Assistant Professor
PhD (Public Policy Analysis) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Wu Xun specializes in the analysis and evaluation of policy reforms in developing countries, with emphasis on social and environmental sectors. His current research focuses on water governance, environmental valuation, power sector restructuring, anti-corruption strategies, comparative healthcare reforms, and integrated approaches to sustainable development. He teaches research methods for policy analysis, policy evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, environmental policy, and natural resource management.
He has been a consultant to the World Bank, UNEP, and International Vaccine Institute for a variety of assignments ranging from non-market valuation to integrated water resource management. |
Dr. Wu received his PhD in Public Policy Analysis from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
DID: +(65) 6516 3719
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Bhanoji Rao
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Adjunct Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Doctorate in Economics (National University of Singapore)
Bhanoji Rao, Adjunct Professor, holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Singapore. His teaching and research career spawning 4 decades included positions at the University of Singapore, the National University of Singapore and the World Bank. He published 17 books, 40 chapters in books, 62 papers in refereed journals and 14 monographs.
Presently he is also Visiting Faculty, Sri Sathya Sai University, Prasanthi Nilayam, and ASCI, Hyderabad.
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DID: +(65) 6516 5832
Fax: +(65) 6468 4186
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Yuen, Belinda |
Associate Professor
Advisor, NUS Campus Green Committee (CGC)
PhD (Environmental Planning) Melb., MA (Town & Regional Planning) Sheff., BA(Hons) Sing., MRTPI, FSIP, Chartered Town Planner
Research Interest:
. Statutory Planning
. Industrial development planning
. Land information system in planning
. Urban transportation planning
. Leisure and recreational planning
. Housing policy and development
. Environmental planning and urban management
. Case studies in urban planning and development
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DID: +(65) 6516 3418
Fax: +(65) 6774 8684
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KOH Kheng Lian  |
Emeritus Professor
PhD LLM (Singapore), Diplôme de Hautes Études Internationales (HEI, University of Geneva), LLB Hons (University of Malaya in Singapore), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)
Dr Koh Kheng Lian is a Professorial Fellow of the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and the Director of the Asia - Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL), established by the Faculty. She was the IUCN CEL Regional Vice Chair for South and East Asia, and a member of its Steering Committee from 1996 - 2004. She was one time consultant on the capacity building in environmental legal education project for the Asian Development Bank. |
Dr Koh was a former Director of the World Bank Institute/ Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA, Singapore) seminars on urban and industrial environmental management. In this capacity, she has organized and served as a resource persons in four such seminars. She continues to be MFA's course Director for such seminars. She has also served as a resource person in numerous seminars and conferences in environmental law, including the UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research) seminars on implementation of multilateral agreements related to biological diversity, held in Kushiro and Chiang Mai. She served as a member of the National Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Focus Group III - Environment Issues), and was also in the National Environment Agency Feedback Group on the United States - Singapore Free Trade Agreement. Currently, she is a member of the National Environmental Agency Focus Group on Air and Climate Change to review the Singapore Green Plan 2012. She was recently invited by the Universidad Metropolitana de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico to conduct a series of lectures to PhD students on environmental law.
From 1980 to 1986, Dr Koh served as a legal officer in the secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in Vienna.
DID: +(65) 6516 6246
Fax: +(65) 6779 0979
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LYE Lin Heng,Irene  |
Associate Professor
Lye Lin Heng graduated in law from the University of Singapore, and holds Masters degrees in law from the University of London and Harvard University.
She is an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and is Deputy Director of the Law Faculty's Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL). She was Vice-Dean and Director of the Faculty's Graduate Programme from 1995-1998. She chairs the University's Inter-Faculty Executive Committee on the new Masters in Environmental Management (MSc (Env Mgt)) programme hosted by the School of Design and Environment. She is a member of the Land Titles (Strata) Board, and was a former board member of the Housing Development Board and the Tenants' Compensation Board.
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She was a member of the Ministry of Environment's Committees on Environmental Education and on Waste Minimization and Resource Conservation in the Revised Singapore Green Plan 2012. She is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and chairs the Research Group in the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. She is a consultant-trainer to the Regional Institute for Environmental Technology and was Consultant to TRAFFIC Indochina for Vietnam and Cambodia. She is a resource person in capacity-building programs conducted by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Ministry of Environment, Singapore. She has presented papers at conferences worldwide including Australia, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, the South Pacific, United Kingdom and the United States. She has taught in the University of Sydney, City University of Hong Kong and Airlangga University (Indonesia). She has just returned from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies where she was Visiting Associate Professor (Spring 2004), teaching a course on Comparative Environmental Law.
DID: +(65) 6516 3583
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