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promotion of the Asia Pacific region.
It is a centre created to accommodate a diverse cross
discipline expert for the purposes:
• Of developing a vehicle for applied legal research
and policy development
• As a regional think tank for institutions seeking
expert advice and consulting
• Developing joint research in technology law and
policy between Schools in NTU and with other top research
arms and centres
• To be the organisational platform for academics for
academic exchanges
• Developing leading edge industry oriented
programmes
• To be a repository of knowledge on specific areas of
information and technology law being developed in the Asia
Pacific region
The core objective of the centre is to conduct developmental
research on technology law and policy. To achieve this
objective, the centre will have multi-track themes to reflect the
diverse expertise from the School and associate fellows:
• Protection Regimes for Intellectual Property Rights
The laws relating to the protection of intellectual
property of new technologies and to the new property
developed by the use of new technologies.
• Legal Infrastructure for E-Business
Research on the development of International Treatises,
Codes and Model Laws and their impact on E-Commerce.
• Regulation of the Internet
Researching the development of Standards for
Internet Regulation to manage Internet conduct in
the Asia Pacific; Content regulation.
• IT Laws
Cybercrime, Technology Security, Privacy and other
IT laws.
• Telecommunications Law
Access Issues.
• Biotechnology Law & Ethics
Research in related laws and policy and regulatory
infrastructure.
• ICT Competition Law
• Development of a repository database of relevant
laws and cases in the region for further research
• Collecting and sharing with the Public information on the
region’s reported cases and developments affecting
technology.
Centre for Leadership and Cultural Intelligence (CLCI)
Executive Director: Professor Ang Soon
Director of Research: Associate Professor Ng Kok Yee
Mission
To lead in the generation of Knowledge, Assessments, and
Programs (KAP) for growing culturally intelligent individuals
and organizations.
Research Activities
I. Developing and validating novel and rigorous
methodologies/instruments for assessing cultural
intelligence.
II. Establishing the predictive validity and impact of
cultural intelligence through field and experimental
studies. Findings of our studies are disseminated in
international publications and conferences.
III.Partnering corporate and government organizations in
R&D on CQ and global talent issues, and in developing
their global leaders through CQ training and coaching
programs. Participants in our programs come from
various continents including Asia, North and South
America, Europe and Australia.
IV. Enhancing CQ and global leadership skills development
in undergraduate and graduate students in the university
through innovative pedagogies and systematic
assessment of students’ learning outcomes.
Insurance Risk and Financial Centre
Centre Director: Jun-Koo Kang, Distinguished Professor of
Finance
About the Centre
The Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre sponsors
and directs primary research on insurance risk, Asian capital
markets, and other important finance-related issues in the
Asia-Pacific. It seeks to provide a platform for dialogue among
academics, industry, and regulators to facilitate the growing
role of insurance and finance in the region's economic
development.
Founded in March 2011, in partnership with global reinsurer
SCOR, the Centre draws on the expertise of the School's
Banking and Finance faculty as well as SCOR's global
research network. Financial research on Asia’s capital
markets, particularly stock markets in China, is supported by
Rega Capital Management of Hong Kong, and other
corporate sponsors.
The work of the Centre comprises:
• Risk research related to insurance and actuarial
topics
• Financial research on Asian capital markets and
other relevant topics
• Conferences on insurance risk and finance
Research seminars
• Semi-annual publications
Advisory Board
The Centre’s research plans and activities are directed by an
Advisory Board which will meet twice yearly to define, decide
and oversee the Centre’s research projects.
Prof Gillian Yeo
Interim Dean, Nanyang Business School
Prof Jun-koo Kang
Head of Bank and Finance Division, Nanyang Business
School
Mr Jean-Luc Besson
Director, SCOR
Mr Michael Dacoragna
Deputy Chief Risk Officer, SCOR
Mr Ben Ho
CEO Asia Pacific, SCOR
Prof Shaun Wang
Thomas P. Bowles Chair of Actuarial Science, Georgia State
University
Information Management Research Centre (IMARC)
Director: Associate Professor Sia Siew Kien
Mission
IMARC’s vision is to create and disseminate knowledge for