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Dr. Reuben Ng is an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Lead Scientist at the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk. A behavioural and data scientist trained at NUS, Oxford and Yale, Reuben spent 16 years in government, consulting and research. In government, he was in the Prime Minister’s Office driving evidence-based policymaking through data analytics 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 ageism, social gerontology 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 achieved international media coverage at The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Forbes, BBC and CNN. He leads workshops on innovation that blend data analytics, 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 honored with the prestigious Harkness Fellowship since its inception in 1925 - a "reverse Rhodes" for innovators in Health Policy. He was ranked in the top 2 percent of scientists globally by Stanford since 2022. |