{"id":5478,"date":"2021-02-17T05:21:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T05:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/?page_id=5478"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:56:09","slug":"department-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/department-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\n\t\tDepartment Newsletter\n\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-tabs--label-0\" data-index=\"0\" aria-selected=\"true\" aria-controls=\"fl-tabs--panel-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\">\t\t\t\tLatest Issue &#8211; December 2025\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-tabs--label-1\" data-index=\"1\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"fl-tabs--panel-1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\">\t\t\t\tPrevious Issues\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLatest Issue &#8211; December 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tbody><!-- MAIN STORY -->\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/NUS-Econs-Dec-2025-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"368\" \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/Economics-Across-Land-Sea-and-Air-2025.pdf\">Economics across Land, Sea, and Air.<\/a>\n<p>Priscilla Chan, Cheng Kai Jun and Cornelius Toh discuss their careers in land transport, maritime and aviation respectively.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><!-- SECTION LINKS IN TWO COLUMNS --><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\"><!-- LEFT COLUMN -->\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/1225_DOE-09.jpg\">Outstanding International Scientific Achievement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/Faculty-spotlight.pdf\">Faculty Spotlight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/17th-Singapore-Economic-Policy-Forum-1.pdf\">Economic Policy Events<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/1225_DOE-14.jpg\">Undergraduate Teaching Award<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<p><!-- RIGHT COLUMN --><\/p>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/1225_DOE-15.jpg\">\u200e\u200eGraduate Awards<\/a>\u00a0\u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/Undergraduate-Events-1-1.pdf\">Undergraduate Events<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/1225_DOE-20.jpg\">Faculty and Staff News<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPrevious Issues\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/1225_DOE-compressed.pdf\">December 2025 <\/a>&#8211; Features Priscilla Chan, Cheng Kai Jun, and Cornelius Toh, who work in Land, Sea, and Air respectively.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/0525_DOE-1.pdf\">June 2025<\/a> &#8211; Features Tan Yan Ning Jerrold Soh and Song Chaeyeon, a future doctor, a laywer and an economist\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/Dec_24FullNewsletter.pdf\">December 2024<\/a> &#8211; Features Archana Dhinakar Bala and Muhammad bin Khalid, from our pre-doctoral programme\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/07\/0524_DOE_r2-compressed.pdf\">May 2024<\/a> &#8211; Features Nicole Ng Min and Ren Mengxiao who perform stand-up comedy in their free time<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/DOE-Newsletter-September-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 2023<\/a> &#8211; Features Chris Wei and Joan Toh who work in the area of environmental sustainability<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/DOE-Newsletter-May-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2023<\/a> &#8211; \u00a0Features Janson Seah and Daryl Tan, two alumni who were featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/07\/DOE-Newsletter-Full.pdf\">June 2022<\/a> Features Jeremy Tan, Nicholas Foo and Samson Lee, all of whom apply data science and economics in their work.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/DOE-newsletter-Dec-21_Full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2021<\/a> Features Vikrum Trehan who shares his experience as a VP in Goldman Sachs Japan and Barnabas Gan who tells us about life as an Economist at UOB Singapore.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/07\/DOE-Newsletter-June-2021-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2021<\/a> Features Jovi Loo, Ritika Vatyani, Cliff Chew and Sarah Tan Jia Wen who work in the tech industry.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/Newsletter-Dec2020-web-ver_compressed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2020<\/a>\u00a0Features Tan Kwan Boon, Evelyn Kok and Yu Xinyao, practitioners and researchers in the social service sector.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/June-20_Newsletter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2020<\/a>\u00a0Features Pamela Low, Joshua Foong and Amy Ng, civic leaders from the Class of 2018.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/Dec2019-edited.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2019<\/a>\u00a0Features alumni Chee Su Ling and Teh Kwee Chin, Senior Vice Presidents at GIC.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/Apr2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2019<\/a>\u00a0Features alumnus Tan Tai Kiat, Director of Operations, SingHealth Community Hospitals.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/Jul18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 2018\u00a0<\/a>Features alumnus Shirley Crystal Chua, Founder and Group CEO of Golden Equator.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/Oct17-edited.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 2017\u00a0<\/a>Features alumnus Daniel Lo, Senior Vice President of CIC Bank.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/Mar17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2017\u00a0<\/a>Features alumnus Joseph Chew, former Executive Director of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/Aug16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2016\u00a0<\/a>Features alumnus Wong Nang Jang, Deputy President and Executive Director of OCBC.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/Dec15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2015\u00a0<\/a>Features alumnus Suppiah Dhanabalan, former cabinet minister.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/Aug15-edited.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2015\u00a0<\/a>Features alumnus Ho Kwon Ping, Executive Chairman, Banyan Tree Holdings.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/Dec14-edited.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2014<\/a>\u00a0Features alumnus See Chak Mun, former top diplomat.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/Apr14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2014<\/a>\u00a0Features alumnus Kit Wei Zheng, top private-sector economist.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/Dec13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2013<\/a>\u00a0Features alumnus Wee Sin Tho, Head of NUS Development Office.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department Newsletter Latest Issue &#8211; December 2025 Previous Issues Latest Issue &#8211; December 2025 Economics across Land, Sea, and Air. Priscilla Chan, Cheng Kai Jun and Cornelius Toh discuss their careers in land transport, maritime and aviation respectively. Outstanding International Scientific Achievement Faculty Spotlight Economic Policy Events Undergraduate Teaching Award \u200e\u200eGraduate Awards\u00a0\u200e \u200e \u200e \u200e [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5478","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22551,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5478\/revisions\/22551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}