SPEAKERS
Heng Yee Kuang
Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
Saturday 7, December
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9:00-13:10
Parallel Session 2
PROFILE
Dr. Heng graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) with a B.Sc. (First Class Honours) and then PhD in International Relations funded by the UK Overseas Research Students Award Scheme. He has held faculty positions at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (2004-2007); the University of St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom (2007-2011); and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (2011-2016).
He has published on Japanese foreign and security policy in the Journal of Strategic Studies; The Pacific Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Foreign Policy (2018). Heng’s work on risk and security studies has also appeared in Security Dialogue; Survival; Review of International Studies; The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, European Security; amongst others. He is author of several books, most recently ‘Managing Global Risks in the Urban Age: Singapore and the making of a Global City’ (Routledge, 2016). Dr. Heng is currently part of research teams funded by The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) that evaluate the climate change-conflict nexus and the intersection between technology and security risks.
He has published on Japanese foreign and security policy in the Journal of Strategic Studies; The Pacific Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Foreign Policy (2018). Heng’s work on risk and security studies has also appeared in Security Dialogue; Survival; Review of International Studies; The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, European Security; amongst others. He is author of several books, most recently ‘Managing Global Risks in the Urban Age: Singapore and the making of a Global City’ (Routledge, 2016). Dr. Heng is currently part of research teams funded by The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) that evaluate the climate change-conflict nexus and the intersection between technology and security risks.
