Who will present in WDES？
Speakers and VIP Guest:
Prof Reuben Ng
NUS, Oxford, Yale-trained; 16 years in govt, consulting, research; PMO & Smart Nation; built analytics practice; policy innovation, social sciences expert; developed societal perception measurement techniques.
Prof Reuben Ng trained as a behavioural and data scientist at NUS, Oxford and Yale. He spent 16 years in government, consulting, and research. In government, he was in the Prime Minister’s Office driving evidence-based policy-making through data analytics and Singapore's Smart Nation strategies. In consulting, he co-built the advanced analytics practice at a top firm, and implemented complex analytics capabilities across industries and functions. In research, he is an expert in policy innovation, quantitative social sciences, and credited with creating innovative techniques to measure societal perceptions that are applied to strategic communications. His work achieved international media coverage at The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Forbes, BBC, and CNN. He delivers masterclasses on Blended Innovation that integrates Data Analytics, Behavioural Insights, and Design Thinking; and served on advisory boards in finance, defence, education and sustainability. Reuben is the first Singaporean and Oxonian to win the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award, and the first from Asia to be honoured with the prestigious Harkness Fellowship, a "reverse Rhodes" for mid-career professionals, since its inception in 1925. Reuben is ranked in the top 2 per cent of scientists globally by Stanford since 2022.
