TAN Kong Yam
陈光炎
新加坡南洋理工大学经济学教授、李光耀公共政策学院亚洲竞争力研究所所长
议题：
振兴私企对中国经济有何意义？
Professor Tan Kong Yam is presently professor of economics at the Nanyang Technological University. He is also the Director of the Asia Competitiveness Institute at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. From June 2002 to June 2005, he was a senior economist at the World Bank office in Beijing. In 2004, he was a member of the World Bank expert group on the eleventh five year plan (2006-2010) for the State Council in China. The expert group provided analysis and policy recommendations to the Chinese government.
Professor Tan is also a founding member and director of APS Asset Management with asset under management of US$2.3 billion. From 1985-88, he was the chief assistant to Dr Goh Keng Swee, the former deputy Prime Minister of Singapore invited by Mr Deng Xiaoping to advise China on economic development strategy. Presently he also teaches a course on China in the global economy. His students are mayors and senior government officials from China doing their MPA program in Singapore. He has taught over 6,000 officials, businessmen and entrepreneurs from China in various programs over the past 20 years. He has also travelled extensively in China and has visited all the 31 provinces, including over 200 cities, small towns and poor villages across the country.
From 1999-2002, he was the chief economist of the Singapore government. He is a graduate of Princeton (1975-79, class of 1931 scholar, Paul Volcker Thesis prize) and Stanford University (1980-83), where he completed his Master and PhD in three years. Prior to joining NUS, he has worked at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, World Bank and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
His research interests are in international trade and finance, economic and business trends in the Asia Pacific region and economic reforms in China. He has published five books and numerous articles in major international journals including American Economic Review, World Bank Economic review, Long Range Planning, Australian Journal of Management etc on economic and business issues in the Asia Pacific region. He served as board member at the Singapore Central Provident Fund Board (1984-96) and the National Productivity Board (1989-90). He has also consulted for many organizations including Temasek, GIC, Citigroup, IBM, ATT, BP, ABN-AMRO, Ikea, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, People's Bank of China, EDB, Areva, Capitaland, Guangdong provincial government, Samsung, Mauritius Government, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Mobil, Singapore Technology, etc.
