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H-THINK-01Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-01 | Bilahari Kausikan --- Singapore's Realist Conscience: The Intellectual Architecture of Small-State Survival

Full Title: Bilahari Kausikan --- Singapore's Realist Conscience: The Complete Intellectual Profile of the City-State's Most Combative Strategic Think…

H-THINK-02Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-02 | George Yeo -- The Confucian-Taoist-Catholic Statesman

Full Title: George Yeo Yong-Boon -- The Confucian-Taoist-Catholic Statesman: Intellectual Profile of Singapore's Philosopher-Minister

H-THINK-03Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-03 | Tommy Koh — The Great Negotiator: Singapore's Conscience-in-Residence

Full Title: Tommy Koh Thong Bee — The Great Negotiator, Pragmatic Idealist, and Singapore's Most Outspoken Establishment Intellectual: An Exhaustive I…

H-THINK-04Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-04 | Peter Ho — The Architect of Singapore's Strategic Foresight

Full Title: Peter Ho Hak Ean — The Architect of Singapore's Strategic Foresight

H-THINK-05Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-05 | Lim Siong Guan — The Philosopher-Practitioner of Singapore's Public Service

Full Title: Lim Siong Guan — The Philosopher-Practitioner of Singapore's Public Service: An Intellectual Profile

H-THINK-06Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-06 | Kishore Mahbubani — Asia's Advocate: The Intellectual Who Told the West Its Time Was Up

Full Title: Kishore Mahbubani — Asia's Advocate: The Intellectual Who Told the West Its Time Was Up: An Intellectual Profile

H-THINK-07Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-07 | Chan Heng Chee -- Singapore's Scholar-Diplomat: The Political Scientist Who Became the Nation's Voice in Washington

Full Title: Chan Heng Chee -- Singapore's Scholar-Diplomat: Intellectual Profile of the Political Scientist, Theorist of the Administrative State, and…

H-THINK-08Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-08 | Terence Ho — The Policy Insider Who Became Singapore's Most Prolific Governance Commentator

Full Title: W.L. Terence Ho Wai Luen — The Policy Insider Who Became Singapore's Most Prolific Governance Commentator: An Intellectual Profile

H-THINK-09Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-09 | Wang Gungwu -- The Historian of the Chinese Overseas

Full Title: Wang Gungwu -- The Historian of the Chinese Overseas: Intellectual Profile of the World's Pre-eminent Scholar of the Chinese Diaspora, Sou…

H-THINK-10Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-10 | Donald Low — The Insider Critic Who Left: Singapore's Most Trenchant Establishment-Trained Policy Dissident

Full Title: Donald Low How Tian — The Insider Critic Who Left: Singapore's Most Trenchant Establishment-Trained Policy Dissident: An Intellectual Prof…

H-THINK-11Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-11 | Kenneth Paul Tan — The Meritocracy Critic: Singapore's Most Rigorous Internal Dissident

Full Title: Kenneth Paul Tan — The Meritocracy Critic: Singapore's Most Rigorous Internal Dissident: An Intellectual Profile

H-THINK-12Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-12 | Chua Beng Huat — The Theorist of Communitarian Singapore: How One Sociologist Decoded the Logic of the PAP State

Full Title: Chua Beng Huat — The Theorist of Communitarian Singapore: How One Sociologist Decoded the Logic of the PAP State: An Intellectual Profile

H-THINK-13Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-13 | Linda Lim — Singapore's Most Prominent Overseas Economist and Critic of the Singapore Model

Full Title: Linda Yuen-Ching Lim — Singapore's Most Prominent Overseas-Based Economist, Critic of the Extensive Growth Model, and Champion of Academic…

H-THINK-14Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-14 | Teo You Yenn --- The Sociologist Who Made Singapore See Its Poor: Inequality, Dignity, and the Unmaking of Meritocratic Myth

Full Title: Teo You Yenn --- The Sociologist Who Made Singapore See Its Poor: The Complete Intellectual Profile of Singapore's Most Influential Voice …

H-THINK-15Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-15 | Cherian George — The Dissident Scholar: Singapore's Foremost Analyst of Media, Censorship, and Calibrated Coercion

Full Title: Cherian George — The Dissident Scholar: Singapore's Foremost Analyst of Media, Censorship, and Calibrated Coercion: An Intellectual Profil…

H-THINK-16Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-16 | P.J. Thum --- The Revisionist Historian: Decolonisation, Dissent, and the Battle Over Singapore's Founding Narrative

Full Title: Thum Ping Tjin (P.J. Thum) --- The Revisionist Historian: The Complete Intellectual Profile of Singapore's Most Controversial Scholar of D…

H-THINK-17Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-17 | Kirsten Han — Singapore's Most Visible Dissident Journalist and Abolitionist Activist

Subject: Kirsten Han Li Ying (韩俐颖)

H-THINK-18Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-18 | Bertha Henson --- Singapore's Insider Dissident: The Veteran Journalist Who Became the Mainstream Media's Most Credible Critic

Full Title: Bertha Henson --- Singapore's Insider Dissident: The Complete Intellectual Profile of the Former Straits Times Associate Editor Who Built,…

H-THINK-19Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-19 | Jamus Lim — The Economist in Opposition

Full Title: Jamus Lim — The Economist in Opposition: Academic Rigour, Parliamentary Advocacy, and the Redefinition of Singapore's Political Centre

H-THINK-20Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-20 | Ngiam Tong Dow --- The Establishment's Sharpest Heretic: Singapore's Most Outspoken Mandarin

Full Title: Ngiam Tong Dow --- The Establishment's Sharpest Heretic: The Complete Intellectual Profile of Singapore's Most Outspoken Former Permanent …

H-THINK-21Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-21 | Philip Yeo --- Neither Civil Nor Servant: The Complete Intellectual Profile of Singapore's Most Audacious Economic Builder

Full Title: Philip Yeo --- Neither Civil Nor Servant: The Complete Intellectual Profile of Singapore's Most Audacious Economic Builder

H-THINK-22Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-22 | S. Jayakumar — The Scholar-Statesman: Singapore's Legal Architect and Diplomatic Shield

Full Title: Shunmugam Jayakumar — International Law Scholar, Dean of Law, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Law, Deputy Prime Minister, and A…

H-THINK-23Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-23 | Tharman Shanmugaratnam --- The Intellectual Architect of Inclusive Singapore: Economist, Statesman, President

Full Title: Tharman Shanmugaratnam --- The Intellectual Architect of Inclusive Singapore: The Complete Intellectual Profile of the City-State's Most G…

H-THINK-24Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-24 | Janadas Devan — The Interpreter of the Singapore Story: Public Intellectual, Government Communicator, and Bridge Between State and Commentariat

Full Title: Janadas Devan — The Interpreter of the Singapore Story: Public Intellectual, Government Communicator, and Bridge Between State and Comment…

H-THINK-25Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-25 | The Presidents of Singapore — Power, Symbol, and Contestation

Level Designation: Intellectual Profile

H-THINK-26Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-26 | Lee Kuan Yew — The Complete Intellectual Portrait

| Document Code | SG-H-THINK-26 |

H-THINK-27Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-27 | Goh Keng Swee --- The Economics of Survival: Architect of Singapore's Material Foundations

Full Title: Goh Keng Swee --- The Economics of Survival: The Complete Intellectual Profile of the Man Who Built Singapore's Economy, Defence, and Educ…

H-THINK-28Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-28 | S. Rajaratnam — The Intellectual Conscience of the Republic

Level Designation: Intellectual Profile

H-THINK-29Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-29 | Founding & Key Figures — Intellectual Portraits

Level Designation: Intellectual Profile

H-THINK-30Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-30 | Tan Kong Yam — Singapore's Dissident Economist: Productivity Evangelist, China Specialist, and Critic of the Foreign-Worker Growth Model

Full Title: Tan Kong Yam — Singapore's Dissident Economist: Productivity Evangelist, China Specialist, and Critic of the Foreign-Worker Growth Model

H-THINK-31Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-31 | Joseph Chinyong Liow — The Cartographer of Southeast Asian Insecurity: Islam, Nationalism, and the Politics of a Turbulent Region

Full Title: Joseph Chinyong Liow — The Cartographer of Southeast Asian Insecurity: An Intellectual Profile of Singapore's Foremost Scholar of Regional…

H-THINK-32Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-32 | Ravi Velloor — Asia's Chronicler: The Journalist Who Mapped Singapore's Place in the Asian Century

Full Title: Ravi Velloor — Asia's Chronicler: The Journalist Who Mapped Singapore's Place in the Asian Century: An Intellectual Profile

H-THINK-33Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-33 | Asad Latif --- The Chronicler of Nation-Builders: Journalist, Biographer, and Muslim Intellectual Voice in Singapore's Governance Discourse

Full Title: Asad Latif --- The Chronicler of Nation-Builders: Journalist, Biographer, and Muslim Intellectual Voice in Singapore's Governance Discours…

H-THINK-34Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-34 | William Choong --- From Newsroom to Think Tank: Singapore's Bridge Between Defence Journalism and Strategic Analysis

Full Title: William Choong --- From Newsroom to Think Tank: The Intellectual Profile of Singapore's Leading Defence and Alliance Analyst

H-THINK-35Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-35 | Vikram Khanna --- The Business Times' Economic Conscience: Singapore's Premier Business Journalist and Critic of Complacent Growth

Full Title: Vikram Khanna --- The Business Times' Economic Conscience: Singapore's Premier Business Journalist and Critic of Complacent Growth: An Int…

H-THINK-36Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-36 | Kumar Ramakrishna --- The Security Intellectual: Counterterrorism, Counter-Radicalisation, and the Defence of Singapore's Internal Security Paradigm

Full Title: Kumar Ramakrishna --- The Security Intellectual: The Complete Intellectual Profile of Singapore's Leading Scholar of Counterterrorism, the…

H-THINK-37Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-37 | Ooi Kee Beng -- The Biographer as Historian: Bridging Malaysia and Singapore through Intellectual Craft

Full Title: Ooi Kee Beng -- The Biographer as Historian: How a Malaysian Scholar Illuminated Singapore's Founding Generation and Southeast Asian Gover…

H-THINK-38Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-38 | Tan Tai Yong — The Historian Who Placed Singapore in Seven Centuries: From Garrison States to the Idea of Smallness Unconstrained

Full Title: Tan Tai Yong — The Historian Who Placed Singapore in Seven Centuries: From Garrison States to the Idea of Smallness Unconstrained

H-THINK-39Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-39 | Leong Ching — The Behavioural Policy Scientist: From Newsroom to the Frontier of Public Governance and Water Politics

Full Title: Leong Ching — The Behavioural Policy Scientist: From Newsroom to the Frontier of Public Governance and Water Politics

H-THINK-40Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-40 | Edson C. Tandoc Jr — The Misinformation Scientist: Singapore's Leading Scholar of Fake News, Digital Journalism, and Information Integrity

Full Title: Edson C. Tandoc Jr — The Misinformation Scientist: Singapore's Leading Scholar of Fake News, Digital Journalism, and Information Integrity…

H-THINK-41Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-41 | Dr Tan Eng Liang — Sports as Nation-Building: An Intellectual Profile of an Institutional Thinker

Full Title: Dr Tan Eng Liang — Sports as Nation-Building, the Olympic-Movement Imagination, and the Family-as-Civic-Institution Model: An Intellectual…

H-THINK-42Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-42 | Ho Kwon Ping — The Establishment-Adjacent Critic: Entrepreneur, Detainee, University-Builder, and the Inaugural Voice of the IPS-Nathan Lectures

Full Title: Ho Kwon Ping — The Establishment-Adjacent Critic: An Intellectual Profile of the Banyan Tree Founder, Founding Chairman of Singapore Manag…

H-THINK-43Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-43 | Walter Woon — The Constitutional Craftsman: Law Professor, Attorney-General, Diplomat, and the NMP Who Wrote a Statute

Full Title: Walter Woon Cheong Ming — Professor of Law, Author on the Singapore Legal System and Company Law, Nominated Member of Parliament and Prime…

H-THINK-44Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-44 | Thio Li-ann — The Constitutional Conservative: Singapore's Foremost Scholar of Constitutional Law, Law-and-Religion, and Communitarian Public Argument

Full Title: Thio Li-ann — The Constitutional Conservative: Singapore's Foremost Scholar of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, the 2007 Section 377A …

H-THINK-45Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-45 | Simon Tay — The Scholar-Convenor: Singapore's Bridge Between Foreign-Policy Ideas, ASEAN Regionalism, and Sustainability

Full Title: Simon Tay Seong Chee — The Scholar-Convenor: Law Professor, Think-Tank Chairman, and Public Voice on ASEAN, the US-China-Asia Triangle, an…

H-THINK-46Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-46 | Mathew Mathews — The Pollster of Cohesion: Singapore's Empirical Authority on Race, Religion, and Identity

Full Title: Mathew Mathews — The Pollster of Cohesion: Singapore's Empirical Authority on Race, Religion, Immigration, and Social Attitudes: An Intell…

H-THINK-47Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-47 | Kevin Y L Tan — The Constitutional Cartographer: Singapore's Foremost Documentarian of Its Constitutional Order and Legal History

Full Title: Kevin Yew Lee Tan — Constitutional-Law Scholar, Legal Historian, and Heritage Documentarian: The Author and Editor of Singapore's Standard…

H-THINK-48Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-48 | Constance Singam — The Grande Dame of Singapore Activism: Writer, Feminist, and the Conscience of Civil Society

Full Title: Constance Singam — The Grande Dame of Singapore Activism: Writer, Feminist, and the Conscience of Civil Society: An Intellectual Profile

H-THINK-49Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-49 | Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh — The Travel-Writer Turned Public Intellectual: Inequality, Identity, and the Widening of Singapore's Public Conversation

Full Title: Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh — The Travel-Writer Turned Public Intellectual: Inequality, Identity, and the Widening of Singapore's Public Conver…

H-THINK-50Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-50 | Tan Tarn How — The Playwright in the Policy Institute: Singapore's Scholar-Artist of Culture, Media, and Civil Society

Full Title: Tan Tarn How — The Playwright in the Policy Institute: A Scholar-Artist Examining the State's Relationship with Culture, Media, and Civil …

H-THINK-51Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-51 | Warren Fernandez — The Establishment Editor: Newspaper of Record, the Calibrated Press, and the Editor as Institutional Actor

Full Title: Warren Fernandez — The Establishment Editor: Newspaper of Record, the Calibrated Press, and the Editor as Institutional Actor: An Intellec…

H-THINK-52Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-52 | Yeoh Lam Keong — The Economist Who Argued for a Bigger Heart: Singapore's Foremost Establishment-Grounded Advocate for a Stronger Social Safety Net

Full Title: Yeoh Lam Keong — The Economist Who Argued for a Bigger Heart: From GIC Chief Economist to Singapore's Foremost Establishment-Grounded Advo…

H-THINK-53Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-53 | Manu Bhaskaran — The Independent Macroeconomist as Public Conscience: Singapore's Pre-eminent Private-Sector Analyst of the Regional Economy

Full Title: Manu Bhaskaran — Founder of Centennial Asia Advisors, Independent Macroeconomic Analyst of Singapore and Asia, and the Economist as Engage…

H-THINK-54Public Intellectuals & Thinkers

SG-H-THINK-54 | Simon Chesterman — The Internationalist of the Machine Age: International Lawyer, Dean of NUS Law, and Singapore's Pre-eminent Scholar of the Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Full Title: Simon Chesterman — International Lawyer, Scholar of the United Nations and State-Building, Theorist of the Rule of Law, Dean of the Nation…

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