People

The Centre's true value is the people - faculty members, motivated staff, distinguished visitors and impressive research fellows as well as partners around the world we cooperate with through our network to explore the role of information in our societies, especially as it pertains to our capacity to innovate, to learn and educate and to guide policymaking.

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Associate Professor and Director, Information + Innovation Policy Research Centre
Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Director of the Information + Innovation Policy Research Centre. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. He is also an expert on the European Union. Before coming to the LKYSPP he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Professor Mayer-Schönberger has published seven books, including recently
"Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age"
(Princeton University Press 2009) and
"Governance and Information Technology"
(MIT Press 2007) and over a hundred articles (including in Science) and book chapters. A native Austrian, Professor Mayer-Schönberger founded Ikarus Software in 1986, a company focusing on data security, and developed Virus Utilities, which became the best-selling Austrian software product. He was voted Top-5 Software Entrepreneur in Austria in 1991 and Person-of-the-Year for the State of Salzburg in 2000. He chairs the Rueschlikon Conference on Information Policy, is the cofounder of the SubTech conference series, and served on the ABA/AALS National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. He holds a number of law degrees, including one from Harvard and an MS(Econ) from the London School of Economics. In his spare time, he likes to travel, go to the movies, and learn about architecture.

contact information •

E-mail: 
Viktor_MSatnus [dot] edu [dot] sg
Phone: 
(65) 6516 7032
Homepage: 

http://www.iplusicentre.net

Address: 

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
National University of Singapore
469C Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259772

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Yee Fen LIM

Visiting Professor, I+I Policy Research Centre
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law National University of Singapore
Professor Lim graduated with degrees in computer science and law with Honours from the University of Sydney. She currently holds a joint appointment at the National University of Singapore as a Visiting Professor at the Information + Innovation Policy Research Centre, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and at the Faculty of Law. She is also Principal Consultant at Galexia, in Sydney, Australia and is a Research Associate at the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre, University of New South Wales. Professor Lim was previously a senior law academic at an Australian university. Professor Lim also has considerable experience as an IT professional and was a consultant on numerous strategic database and Internet projects in the 1990s. She has published widely on Internet Law and Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law, E-commerce Law and Privacy Law in the US, Europe, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand and in prestigious international journals.
Her seminal book Cyberspace Law: Commentaries and Materials, first published in 2002 by Oxford University Press is in its second edition with a Foreword by the Honourable Justice Gummow AC QC of the High Court of Australia. Yee Fen is a sought after speaker and her speaking engagements have included those in the US, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. She also sits on the editorial boards of numerous international IT and IP law journals. Her current research and teaching include legal issues in virtual worlds, cybercrime, privacy law and electronic authentication.

contact information •

E-mail: 
yeefenatnus [dot] edu [dot] sg
Phone: 
(65) 6516 8132
Homepage: 

www.iplusicentre.net

Address: 

INFORMATION + INNOVATION POLICY RESEARCH CENTRE
LEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
National University of Singapore
469C Bukit Timah Road
Oei Tiong Ham Building
Singapore 259772

Cindy Chang

Business Manager, I+I Policy Research Centre
Cindy works as the Business Manager in I+I Policy Research Centre where she is responsible for administering the fellows program, planning and executing seminars and conferences and, conceptualizing marketing plans to increase the visibility of the centre. She also assists the Centre Director in running the daily operations of the centre. Prior to joining I+I Policy Research Centre, she had successfully launched a recording studio and subsequently a music school. Previous companies she had worked with included Arthur Andersen, Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific and Kingsmen Design & Exhibition. Cindy holds a Bachelor of Science (Economics) in Management Studies from the University of London.

contact information •

E-mail: 
cindychangatnus [dot] edu [dot] sg
Phone: 
(65) 6516 5025
Homepage: 

www.iplusicentre.net

Address: 

INFORMATION + INNOVATION POLICY RESEARCH CENTRE
LEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
National University of Singapore
469C Bukit Timah Road
Oei Tiong Ham Building
Singapore 259772

Fadi Salem

Program Director & Fellow, Dubai School of Government
Research Fellow (non-resident)
Fadi Salem is the Director of the Governance and Innovation Program at the Dubai School of Government. His expertise and research focus areas include ICT’s transformational impact on governance and society as well as electronic government and development. His current research interests also include new media, information security, measurement and evaluation in the knowledge economy, and societal implications of online social networking services. He is a graduate from the Department of Management in the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Faculty of Engineering in Aleppo University. He previously was a Research Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.
Prior to joining the Dubai School of Government he worked for four years in The Executive Office in Dubai and as the Technology Editor and the Managing Editor of two pan-Arab ICT publications. He advises several governments in the Middle East and North Africa and is the author of numerous technical reports and articles in journals, print and new media. He publishes in Arabic and English and frequently contributes to media programs and international conferences.

contact information •

E-mail: 
Fadi [dot] Salematdsg [dot] ae
Phone: 
+9714 317 5523
Homepage: 

http://www.dsg.ae

Tracy Loh

Research Fellow, I+I Policy Research Centre
Tracy Loh is currently a research fellow at the Information + Innovation Policy Research Centre, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, where she is looking into the relationship between information flow, transparency, legitimacy, policy making and public deliberation. She recently obtained her Doctor of Philosophy from Cornell University, USA, where she majored in communication. Her areas of expertise are computer-mediated communication, online group and individual decision-making, interpersonal communication, risk and health communication and sociology of the media. Her research interests lie in breaching the boundaries between sociology, communication and public policy. She completed her undergraduate education at the National University of Singapore, and also holds a Master of Science in Sociology from the University of Bristol, England as well a Master of Communication Studies from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Before entering academia, Tracy has also spent many years working in the fields of advertising, public relations and marketing communications. Her experience lies mainly in the hospitality and food and beverage industries as well as in the music industry.

contact information •

E-mail: 
loh [dot] tracyatnus [dot] edu [dot] sg
Phone: 
(65) 6516-5024
Address: 

LEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
National University of Singapore
469C Bukit Timah Road Oei Tiong Ham Building
Singapore 259772

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Qiu-Hong Wang

Affiliated Scholar, I+I Centre
Assistant Professor in the School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Dr. Qiu-Hong Wang received her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2007. Her research focuses on the economics of information security, virtual world economy and the economics of intellectual property. Her research approaches include both quantitative modeling and empirical analysis. She has published papers in the Journal of Management Information Systems, the proceedings of ICIS and HICSS. She has presented her work in conferences, e.g. WEIS, SERCI and INFORMS Marketing Science Conference. Dr.Wang is currently working on projects related to policy issues in information security, and regulation in virtual worlds.

contact information •

E-mail: 
qhwangatmail [dot] hust [dot] edu [dot] cn
Homepage: 

www.iplusicentre.net

Dmitry Epstein

Research Fellow, I+I Policy Research Centre
Dmitry Epstein is currently a research fellow at the Information + Innovation Policy Research Centre, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, where he is looking into questions of internet governance, telecommunication policy, and socioeconomic development. He is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at Cornell University and he holds a BA in Economics from Tel-Aviv University and an MA in Comparative Media Studies from Ben-Gurion University. In addition, Dmitry has worked as a Research Assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and he has also graduated from the Internet Governance Capacity Training of the Diplo Foundation. To his academic activity, Dmitry brings a record of work in the venture capital and consulting industries, as well as a record of social activism and leadership.
He is an active blogger and a participant in the academic community of researchers of new media and society as well as in the community of practitioners who focus on youth entrepreneurship and ICT for development.

contact information •

E-mail: 
dmitry [dot] epsteinatnus [dot] edu [dot] sg
Phone: 
(65) 6516 5820
Homepage: 

www.thinkmacro.org

Address: 

INFORMATION + INNOVATION POLICY RESEARCH CENTRE
LEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
National University of Singapore
469C Bukit Timah Road
Oei Tiong Ham Building
Singapore 259772

Zeenath Hasan

Research Associate, I+I Policy Research Centre
Zeenath is currently a research associate at the Information + Innovation Policy Research Centre, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Her research work interfaces technological materiality with sociological existence in the context of media design for social change. Zeenath is a doctoral candidate in Media and Communication Studies, School of Arts, Culture and Communication (K3), Malmö University, Sweden where her doctoral tenure is funded by a five year scholarship from the Wahlgren Foundation. She has a masters degree in Communications from the Manipal Institute of Communication in Manipal, India and a masters of arts degree in New Media Studies from the Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. As a media designer and researcher, she initiates collaborative new media interventions, more recently with diaspora in Sweden and with urban street communities in India.
She is also a practicing corporate ethnographer for multinational technology manufacturers of telecom products and digital consumables.

contact information •

E-mail: 
zeenath [dot] hasanatmah [dot] se
Phone: 
(65) 6516 1401
Homepage: 

www.zeeniac.net

Address: 

INFORMATION + INNOVATION POLICY RESEARCH CENTRE
Oei Tiong Ham Building
469C Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259772

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