Reuben Ng

Biography

Dr. Reuben Ng is a behavioural and data scientist at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Trained at NUS, Oxford and Yale, Reuben spent 20 years in government, consulting and research. In government, he was in Singapore’s Prime Minister’s Office driving evidence-based policymaking through AI and Singapore’s Smart Nation strategies. In consulting, he co-built an advanced analytics practice at a top firm, and implemented complex analytics capabilities across various industries and functions. In research, he is an expert on aging policy and quantitative social science. He has been credited with creating innovative techniques for measuring societal perceptions that are applied to strategic policy communications. His work has achieved international media coverage at prominent news outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Forbes, BBC and CNN. He leads workshops on innovation that blend AI, behavioural insights and design thinking, and serves 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 since its inception in 1925—a “reverse Rhodes” for innovators in health policy. Since 2022, he has been ranked in the top 2 percent of scientists globally by Stanford.

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