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PSU Staff


Director

 

Denis Hew holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom and MSc and PhD in Finance from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Dr Hew was Regional Cooperation Specialist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) before taking up his current appointment at APEC. From 2001 to 2008, Dr Hew was Senior Fellow and Program Coordinator (Regional Economic Studies) at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) Singapore. He was also Managing Editor of the ASEAN Economic Bulletin, a leading academic journal that focuses on economic issues in Southeast Asia. Dr Hew has written extensively on regional economic cooperation and integration, especially in ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific region.



Policy Advisor

 

Belinda Chng holds a Master of Science in International Relations from the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University, Canberra.

 

Ms Chng was Program Manager and Associate Research Fellow at the RSIS Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies before taking up her current appointment at APEC. A key member of the Centre’s institutional-building process, Ms Chng was involved in project and grant management, human resource, communications and outreach, event management, as well as research in the areas of human security, health and pandemic preparedness, and conflict prevention.

 

As Program Manager, she oversaw coordination of five research programs and managed projects such as the MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Initiative, and the AusAID Responsibility to Protect Fund.



Senior Analysts

  Akhmad Bayhaqi holds a PhD in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore.

Prior to APEC, Mr Bayhaqi was a Researcher with the Centre for Strategic and Policy Studies, Brunei Darussalam working on Education and Social Policy issues.

Previously, Mr Bayhaqi was a Consultant (Economist) for the World Bank Office in Jakarta dealing with programs on public finance within the eastern Indonesia provinces under the Public Expenditure and Capacity enHancement/Harmonization (PEACH) program.

Mr Bayhaqi has also worked at the University of Indonesia as a Researcher/Lecturer focusing mostly on issues related to economics and public policy.
    Philip Chang holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Melbourne, Australia, an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia, Canada, an MBA from the University of North Carolina (Charlotte), USA, and a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from La Trobe University, Australia.

Dr Chang was a Senior Economist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) before taking up his current appointment at APEC. At the ADB, he worked closely with the IMF and the World Bank on debt sustainability analysis for low-income countries in Asia and the Pacific. He has also worked as an economist covering Central Asia and the Caucasus. Moreover, he has worked as a Regional Cooperation Specialist where he helped promote regional economic cooperation across six sectors (trade, investment & private sector cooperation; environment; ICT; energy & power; tourism; and transport) in South Asia.

Prior to the ADB, Dr Chang was a Senior Consultant at Tasman Asia Pacific/Tasman Institute in Melbourne. He conducted consultancy projects relating to structural reforms, economic regulations, and competition policy in Australia and Asia. In addition, he has worked as a staff consultant at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, an Equities Analyst at the Commonwealth Bank in Melbourne, and an Economist at the Department of the Treasury in Canberra.

Carlos Kuriyama holds a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, USA and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Universidad del Pacífico, Peru.

Formerly Mr Kuriyama was an official of Peru's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism where he served as Lead Negotiator of the Peru-China FTA negotiations, General Coordinator of the Peru-Singapore FTA negotiations and Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade. He also led the design of Peru's trade negotiations agenda and implemented Peru's trade strategy with APEC economies.

As an Associate Researcher and Lecturer in Economics at Universidad del Pacifico, Mr Kuriyama wrote extensively and participated in several research projects on trade, investment and integration issues for several domestic and international institutions.

 


Analysts

  Tammy Hredzak holds a Master of Science (majoring in economics and public policy) from the London School of Economics, where she received a merit for her thesis on the costs of economic sanctions. Ms Hredzak also holds a Bachelor of Science with Distinction (majoring in finance and international business) from Penn State University, U.S.A.

Ms Hredzak previously conducted statistical analysis as an Economist for the U.S. Producer Price Index program, where she also co-authored a paper on price trends in the U.S. economy. She also has experience in the consulting industry in the U.K. and in South East Asia, having worked on projects involving public private partnerships and bank privatisations.


 		 Quynh Le holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Ilades/Georgetown University, USA and a Bachelor of Business Studies (majoring in Economics) from Massey University, New Zealand.

Previously, Ms Le was a Macroeconomist at the New Zealand Treasury working on fiscal policies and fiscal modeling for the New Zealand economy. She also has experience in the financial consulting industry in South America, working on various projects ranging from country risk analysis to developing Risk Management models.


Researchers

Azul Ogazon Gomez holds a Master of Public Policy (with Economic Policy & Analysis Specialization) from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, at the National University of Singapore; postgraduate studies on International Cooperation and Development from the United Nations University; and a Bachelor Degree in Economics from Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), Mexico.

Ms Ogazon Gomez has been consultant to the Mexican Trade Commission in Singapore, as well as to the Trade and Investment Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). Before coming to Singapore, Ms Ogazon worked for Solana Consultores a political consulting firm, where she handled negotiation and public relations strategies to enhance public private relationships.

 
Zhang Yuhua Bernadine recently graduated with a Masters Degree in Public Policy and received the Harwin Award for Student Leadership from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. She also holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and was twice awarded an Excellent Performance Scholarship.

Ms Zhang has worked previously as a teaching assistant and research assistant at universities in Singapore and China. She has specialised in research and analysis relating to international economics, public sector economics, monetary economics and environmental economics. She has conducted research into a wide variety of economic issues including the "Hub-Spoke" trade structure in East Asia, carbon trade in China, and Singapore's competitive advantage as an international financial centre.


Administrative Executive

  Chang Hui Ling holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from The Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Ms Chang has served as an Administrative Executive, a Human Resource Supervisor, and a Personal Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer in a local organisation for a combined 7 years; and subsequently also worked as a Sales Manager (Asia Pacific region) in a Norwegian publishing organisation for 4 years, pioneering the news/report circulation department in Singapore that focuses on the seafood/fisheries industry, before joining APEC.