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The Master in Public Administration and Management 高级公共行政与管理硕士 (MPAM) and Chinese Executive Education (EE) Programmes have a new expanded team. Professor CHEN KANG is overall in charge of the new team as the Director of MPAM and Chinese EE Programmes. Associate Professor GU QINGYANG remains as the Deputy Director, MPAM, and will have the additional title of Director, Chinese Executive Education. Gu Qingyang’s responsibilities under this new arrangement will include marketing both the MPAM and Chinese EE programmes, as well as designing the Chinese EE courses. WU ZHEN will remain as Associate Director, but she will have the expanded job scope of managing the Chinese EE administrative and support work. He Peiwen and Xie Yan will continue to work for the MPAM programme. SUSAN S. FAINSTEIN (Visiting Professor, Jan 2013) is a Senior Research Fellow in the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she had been a professor of urban planning until 2012. She received the Davidoff Book Award for her book, The Just City, and the Distinguished Educator Award, which recognises lifetime career achievement, from the Association of American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). Among her other books are The City Builders; Restructuring the City; and Urban Political Movements and edited volumes on urban tourism, planning theory, urban theory, and gender. She has authored over 100 book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. She has been a professor of at Columbia and Rutgers Universities, held visiting appointments at universities in North America, Europe, and Asia, served on numerous editorial boards, was an editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and of Ethnic and Racial Studies, and has consulted to various public organisations.
PEGGY KEK (Director, External Affairs & Partnerships, Feb 2013) helms the External Affairs (EA) department. Peggy joins us with a wealth of experience from the time she spent, in local and overseas postings, with the Asia Foundation, Asia-Europe Foundation, United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Bank. She was also the first Head of Public Affairs at the Institute of Policy Studies and more recently, Acting Executive Director at the Singapore International Foundation. CHAN MUN KITT (Director, Corporate Services , Jan 2013) is appointed the new Chairman of the Chinese Studies Programme from 1 April 2013. This is in addition to his current role as Director, Corporate Services. Going forward, the Chinese Studies Programme will also focus their energies primarily on the Master in Public Administration and Management (MPAM) and Chinese short-term training programme, with the other areas, including student recruitment, alumni and media relations, going back to the EA department. Mun Kitt holds extensive experience in business development, including in China. RHODA SEVERINO (Research Assistant, Aug 2012) is a graduate of the London School of Economics and recently completed a Master of Science in Comparative Politics with a democracy concentration focused on foreign policy analysis and Asian politics. Prior to LSE, Rhoda completed a Bachelor of Arts (History and Political Science) as a Saint Peter’s College Presidential Scholar at Saint Peter’s College, USA. Rhoda also completed semesters at The Washington Center, Washington DC; and University of University of Hong Kong Summer Institute in Hong Kong SAR. She is Research Assistant to the Dean at the LKY School. Prior to joining the LKY School, Rhoda was an intern at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Singapore; Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations in New York; Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE), Makati City, Philippines; and Asia America Initiative, Washington DC. She has also been a volunteer at Kalayaan, London, and worked as a Research Assistant at Saint Peter’s College.
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