Sustainable Living

Qualifications

• PhD in Environmental Studies and Sociocultural Anthropology, Yale University, USA, 2018
• MPhil in Environment, Society & Development, University of Cambridge, UK, 2010
• BA in English, Williams College, USA, 2008

Research Interests

• Climate Adaptation
• Environmental Justice
• Infrastructure Transitions
• Water Politics
• Resource Temporalities
• Multispecies Ethnography

George Wong is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the School of Social Sciences at the Singapore Management University. He is also a visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Wealth Management Institute (WMI). His research sits at the intersection of urban regime politics and governance, community power, and capital flows in Asian cities. He is also a trained ethnographer with a decade of experience in examining state-sponsored urban community development as political legitimacy projects in Asia.

Sun Sun Lim is Vice President, Partnerships and Engagement at the Singapore Management University where she is concurrently Professor of Communication and Technology at its College of Integrative Studies. She has extensively researched the social impact of technology, focusing on technology domestication by families and young people, future of work and AI ethics.

Rencheng Wang joined SMU in 2019. He has previously taught at the University of Queensland and University of Melbourne in Australia. He received his Ph.D. from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Rencheng has a broad range of interests in research at the intersection of accounting and finance. His works have been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and The Accounting Review.