Dr Matthew Hammerton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Singapore Management University. His research explores different categories of value that are important for living a good life and acting ethically. He is best known for his work on agent-relative value, which examines moral theories like consequentialism and deontology. He has also done significant work on meaning in life, examining its connection to well-being, sacrifice, achievement, and luck.
Dr John Donaldson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University (SMU). He researches on politics, rural development and poverty in China and elsewhere, having conducted extensive fieldwork in rural India and Thailand, as well as in Singapore. John Donaldson is the author of Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China (Cornell University Press, 2011).
Adeline Chong has published in leading peer-reviewed journals and is the co-author of Chong and Yip, Singapore Private International Law: Commercial Issues and Practice (OUP, 2023) and Hill and Chong, International Commercial Disputes: Commercial Conflict of Laws in English Courts (Hart, 4th edn, 2010). She was the Project Lead of the Asian Business Law Institute’s project on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Asia which resulted in two edited collections.
