YEOH Lam Keong
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests: Social policy ( Poverty and social welfare, social security and pension adequacy, healthcare, education, public infrastructure, population and immigration policy); Industrial policy and development; International finance and fund management; Political economy and governance; Environmental policy

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Mr Yeoh Lam Keong is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies.

Mr Yeoh had a long and distinguished career in international finance and fund management. Lam Keong worked as a senior economist and strategist at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation for 26 years where he was Director of Economics and Strategy and Chief Economist from October 2000 to June 2011. He brings with him a wealth of experience in the areas of global economic analysis and investment research management, as well as global currency / asset allocation strategy.

Mr Yeoh is a also prominent economist in Singapore and is heavily involved in public policy research. He is an active public policy commentator and analyst and has been an advisor to a number of research institutes in Singapore including the Singapore Centre for Applied Policy Economics (SCAPE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Singapore Management University (SMU) faculty of economics, and the government feedback unit REACH. He is also a fellow of the Singapore Civil Service College (CSC).

Mr Yeoh graduated with a BSc (Econs) and MSc (Econs) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is married with two children.

• Re-thinking Singapore’s Social Compact in the New Normal
  Yeoh Lam Keong, Global is Asian (Journal of the LKY School of Public Policy), March 2012 
• Inequality and the Need for a New Social Compact
  Yeoh Lam Keong, Donald Low, Manu Bhaskaran et al, Background paper, Singapore Perspectives 2012
• Manpower Policy for Inclusive Growth Post ESC: Re-tooling Singapore’s Social Safety Net and Social Security
  Yeoh Lam Keong, Hui Weng Tat, Donald Low and Soh Tze Min, ) REACH Manpower Policy Study Sub-Group, 2010
• Re-thinking Singapore’s Social Compact
  Yeoh Lam Keong, Ethos (Journal of the Civil Service College), Issue 3 October 2007
• Asian Currencies in the Context of Export-Oriented Industrial Development
  Yeoh Lam Keong and Wee Ai Ning in in Stefan Collignon et al (eds), Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia, 1999
  

• Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies
• Vice-President and Head of Policy Committee, Economic Society of Singapore
• Economics Advisory Board, Singapore Management University
• Fellow, Civil Service College
  

• Chief Economist, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (2000-2011) 
•  Member of the IPS Academic Panel, Institute of Policy Studies 
•  Co-Head of Manpower Policy Study Sub-Group, 2010