Joel Goh (Moderator)

Joel is a Professor in the Department of Analytics and Operations and currently serves as Director of the JY Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre, Associate Director of the NUS Global Asia Institute, and PhD Program Director of the NUS Institute of Operations Research and Analytics.

His research interests are in the domains of Healthcare Analytics and Supply Chain Management. In the first domain, he is interested in understanding how mathematical models can be applied to real-world problems in healthcare in order to inform, improve, and enhance medical decision-making and health policy. In the second domain, he is interested in understanding how new business models, enabled by digital technology, can be harnessed to unlock hidden efficiencies in supply chains. He also has methodological interests in optimization theory. He is the co-creator of Robust Optimization Made Easy (ROME), a software package for modeling robust optimization problems.

He received his PhD in business administration from Stanford GSB. Prior to joining NUS, he was a faculty member at Harvard Business School as an assistant professor of business administration.

Mr Kevin Siew

Kevin Siew is currently the Managing Director for Development Management at Frasers Property Singapore.

He leads the development business for Frasers Property across both Singapore and Malaysia. This involves the acquisition of new greenfield and brownfield sites, project development and the eventual exit of these investments across different real estate asset classes.

Kevin was previously based in Hong Kong with the Shangri-La Group where he led the upscale lifestyle brands of JEN by Shangri-La and Traders, and was also in charge of the Group’s global loyalty program Shangri-La Circle. Prior to that, Kevin was with the CapitaLand Group where he was responsible for investment and asset management functions for the REIT, and developed iconic projects like Funan as its Head of Development Management.

Kevin received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Engineering from Stanford University in California (USA) on a President’s Scholarship and a Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship from the Singapore Government. He is an alumnus of Raffles Institution and a Board Director for Singapore River One.