Date: 10 February 2015
Venue: The Pyramid Club, 2 Goodwood Hill, Singapore 258897
Time: 7 pm – dinner and drinks / 7.30 pm to commence chat
Cost: $20 per Member on a cost recovery basis.
Members may bring one non-Member guest at a cost of $40 per guest.
New Membership or renewal of Membership may be obtained at the event. Kindly contact events@oxbridge.org.sg to verify your membership status, if necessary.
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Speaker Background
Mr Donald Low is Associate Dean (Research and Executive Education) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Besides leading the School’s executive education efforts, he also heads its case study unit. His research interests at the School include inequality and social spending, behavioural economics, economics and public policy, public finance, and governance and politics in Singapore.
Prior to his current appointment, Donald served fifteen years in the Singapore government. During that time, he established the Centre for Public Economics at the Civil Service College of Singapore to advance economics literacy in the Singapore government.
Donald is the editor of Behavioural Economics and Policy Design: Examples from Singapore (2011), a pioneering book which details how the Singapore government has applied ideas from behavioural economics alongside standard economics in the design of public policies. His most recent book, Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus (2014), raises searching questions about the long-term viability of many aspects of governance in Singapore, and argues that a far-reaching and radical rethinking of the country’s policies and institutions is necessary, even if it weakens the very consensus that enabled Singapore to succeed in its first 50 years.
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