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Jeremy Siow is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University. His research examines how education, identity, and public policy shape political attitudes and intergroup relations. He is particularly interested in education politics and policy, ethnic identity, and the politics of Southeast Asia, using quantitative methods and causal inference to understand how institutions influence social cohesion and democratic participation.
Fumiya Uchikoshi is Presidential Assistant Professor of Sociology at Singapore Management University. His research lies at the intersection of social stratification, social demography, and family sociology, with a particular focus on demographic change and meritocracy in Japan and East Asia.
Shalom Chalson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Education) at Singapore Management University. Her research interests lie in moral, social, and political philosophy, with a particular focus on the ethics of discrimination. In her doctoral work, she develops an account of wrongful discrimination focused on the evidential relevance of a deciding agent’s considerations. The upshot is an account that is both neutral between competing moral theories and capable of identifying wrongful inequalities across a broad range of contexts.

Education

2020

Ph.D. in Business Administration (Marketing)
Texas A&M University

2015

Education

2026Ph.D. in Marketing
Tsinghua University
2019 M.S.(Data Science)
Columbia University
2015B.A. (Mathematics)
University of Minnesota 


Current Position(s) Held

July 2026 – Now

Al Lim is a Presidential Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Singapore Management University. His research examines how people navigate value, risk, and uncertainty in Southeast Asia’s rapidly changing financial and technological landscapes. His current book project, Risking Fortune, explores the social worlds of Thailand's crypto economy, drawing on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok and across the region. His work has appeared in Urban Geography, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, and The Journal of the Siam Society, and he was awarded the H.

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Education

2006 — 2011Ph.D. in Economics (concentration in Finance), Cornell University, U.S.
1998 — 2006B.A. in Management Science and Engineering, and M.A. in Finance, Shandong University, China

Current Position(s) Held

January 2026 - Now Professor of Finance

Dr Colin Tan is both a qualified doctor as well as a qualified lawyer. After stints in medical practice and legal practice, he served as a District Judge, initially in the Subordinate Courts and later in the Family Justice Courts, for over 13 years where he presided over divorce, division of matrimonial assets, maintenance, family violence, mental capacity and probate cases. During his time in the judiciary, he held various concurrent appointments, including Judge-Advisor for Information Technology and Senior Director of the Singapore Judicial College.

BIO

Dr. Ahmadreza Mostajabi is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Singapore Management University. He completed his PhD in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. His research focuses on areas such as innovation, competitive dynamics, and platform strategy, with an emphasis on how firms adapt their strategy in response to changes in competition and other market dynamics.

EDUCATION

2025

Ph.D. in Strategy & Policy
National University of Singapore

2018

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