Chairpersons
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Hans-Dieter EVERSProfessor and Senior Research Fellow |
Hans-Dieter EVERS is Professor of Development Planning and Senior Fellow, Center for Policy Research (ZEF), University of Bonn. Formerly he was Professor and Chairman, Sociology of Development Research Centre, University of Bielefeld, Germany. He received his D.Phil. degree from the University of Freiburg and subsequently taught sociology at Monash University ( Australia ) and at Yale University (USA), where he was also Director of Graduate Southeast Asia Studies. From 1971 to 74 he was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Singapore. He also served as Visiting Professor at the University of Indonesia, Gadjah Mada University, the National University of Malaysia, the Science University of Malaysia (Penang), the EHESS (Paris), Trinity College ( Oxford ), the University of Hawaii and the National University of Singapore. During 2003 to 2006 he held visiting appointments as Professor of Management in the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He also served (among others) as consultant to ILO, GTZ, UNESCO, the World Bank and KfW-German Development Bank. Currently he is engaged in research on social and cultural dimensions of knowledge based economies and knowledge governance.
His recent book publications are Southeast Asian Urbanism (with R. Korff), Singapore: ISEAS 2000; Governing and Managing Knowledge in Asia (with T. Menkhoff and Y.W. Chay), New Jersey, London and Singapore: World Scientific 2005; and The Straits of Malacca, Berlin and London: LIT forthcoming 2008.
For his full biography, please refer to his homepage here.
Email: hdevers@uni-bonn.de
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Thomas MENKHOFFPractice Associate Professor |
Thomas MENKHOFF is Practice Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (SMU). He has taught organisational behavior, knowledge management, human resource management, sociology of business, management and development, project cycle management and research methods at the National University of Singapore (1993-1995, 1998-2001), Cologne University, Germany (1990-1993) and Bielefeld University, Germany (1989-1990). Dr. Menkhoff has received research / conference grants and fellowships from the German Research Council (DFG), the Volkswagen Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the European Community, the National University of Singapore, the Freeman Foundation and the Singapore Management University. He is a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar.
For his full biography, please refer to his faculty page here.
Email: thomasm@smu.edu.sg
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PANG Eng FongDean and Vice Provost |
Professor PANG Eng Fong is the Dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Business and Vice Provost (Academic Strategic Planning) in Singapore Management University (SMU). Before joining SMU, he was on the faculty of the Business School in the National University of Singapore and the Director of the NUS Economic Research Centre. He has been a visiting full professor at the University of Michigan and Columbia University and a consultant to many international organisations including the World Bank and OECD.
Professor Pang was Singapore's Ambassador to South Korea in 1994-96 (with concurrent accreditation to Mongolia). He next served in Brussels where he was accredited as Ambassador to the European Communities in addition to Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and the Holy See. His last diplomatic posting was to London where he was High Commissioner and concurrently Ambassador to Ireland.
For his full biography, please refer to his faculty page here.
Email: efpang@smu.edu.sg
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Tobias RETTIGPractice Assistant ProfessorSchool of Social Sciences Singapore Management University |
Tobias RETTIG took his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2004. Now a Practice Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, he is co-editor of The 7th Asian-European Editors' Forum (Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2007), and Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia (RoutledgeCurzon, 2006).
For his full biography, please refer to his faculty page here.
Email: tobiasrettig@smu.edu.sg
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Burkhard SCHRAGEAssistant ProfessorLee Kong Chian School of Business Singapore Management University |
Burkhard N. SCHRAGE is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Singapore Management University. His research focuses on firm emerging markets firm strategies, empirical aspects of privatisation and deregulation, behavioural and performance-related issues of privatising firms, and the interaction between capital markets and emerging markets governments.
He is the author or co-author of numerous publications which have appeared in academic journals including the Journal of International Business Studies or the Review of Development Economics. His research has also been published by Harvard Business School Publishing and by MIT Press.
Prior to joining academia, Burkhard has worked for several years in both the equity capital market and corporate finance divisions at major international investment banks in France, Brazil, and Australia.
Burkhard N. Schrage received the Ph.D. and MALD degrees from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, where he studied International Finance and Business Law. He also obtained a Master in Economics from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and a B.A. in Business Administration from the International Business School in Germany.
For his full biography, please refer to his faculty page here.
Email: bschrage@smu.edu.sg
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TAN Chin TiongDeputy President and ProvostSingapore Management University |
Professor TAN Chin Tiong is the Deputy President and Provost of Singapore Management University. He received his PhD in Marketing from the Pennsylvania State University. Prof Tan published his research in many international journals including the Journal of Consumer Research, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Marketing and Psychology, International Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Business Studies, Research in Marketing, International Marketing Review, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Marketing Intelligence & Planning, European Journal of Marketing and others. He sits on the editorial boards of several international journals. Dr Tan has chaired and organised several international conferences for international professional associations such as the American Marketing Association, Association for Consumer Research and Academy of International Business.
He is the co-author of Marketing Management: An Asian Perspective, 4th Edition, 2006, Prentice Hall (with Philip Kotler); Principles of Marketing: An Asian Perspective, 2005, Prentice Hall; The Chinese Tao of Business, 2004, John Wiley; Marketing Management: An Asian Casebook, 2004, Pearson Education; Marketing in the New Asia, 2001, McGraw-Hill; Strategic Marketing Cases for 21st Century Asia, 2000, Prentice Hall (with John Quelch); New Asian Emperors: The Overseas Chinese, Their Strategies and Competitive Advantages, 1998, Butterworth-Heinemann; and Marketing Insights for the Asia Pacific, 1996, Heinemann Asia.
For his full biography, please refer to his faculty page here.
Email: cttan@smu.edu.sg
