Scott A. Fritzen, Vice-Dean (Academic Affairs) and Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (National University of Singapore), specializes in the analysis of governance reform and capacity strengthening in developing countries. His current research focuses on the comparative analysis of anti-corruption strategies, public sector decentralization and social policy reforms in Southeast Asia. At the LKY School of Public Policy, where he has taught since 2000, he teaches courses in public management, negotiation and conflict management, public sector reform in developing countries, and strategies for poverty alleviation.

His active consulting practice since 1994 in Southeast Asia has included over 35 assignments – most of which as team leader – for clients such as the World Bank, UNDP and Oxfam, among many others. He was the first American in the post-war era designated a Fulbright Fellow for Vietnam, and has lived and worked for extended periods in Japan, Germany, Zimbabwe, and Vietnam. His Master in Public Affairs and Urban and Regional Planning degree and Ph.D. in Public Affairs are both from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

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.

Darryl Jarvis specialises in risk analysis and the study of political and economic risk in Asia, including investment, regulatory and institutional risk analysis. He is author and or editor of several books and has contributed articles to leading international journals. He has been a consultant to various government bodies and business organisations, and for two years was a member of the investigating team and then chief researcher on the Building Institutional Capacity in Asia (BICA) project commissioned by the Ministry of Finance, Japan.  His current research is a large cross-national study of risk causality in four of Asia’s most dynamic industry sectors. He teaches courses on risk analysis, markets and international governance, and international political economy.

Kishore Mahbubani was appointed Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy on 16 August 2004 after having served 33 years in the Singapore Foreign Service (with postings in Cambodia, Malaysia, Washington DC and twice as Ambassador to the UN, during which he also served as President of the Security Council). He was the Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry from 1993-1998.

He is the author of Can Asians Think? published in Singapore, Canada, US, Mexico, India and People’s Republic of China and of Beyond The Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World. His new book entitled The New Asian Hemisphere: the Irresistible Shift of Gobal Power to the East was published in New York in February 2008. He was also listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines in September 2005.

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.