Professor Sir Richard Friend is a physicist and engineer who has pioneered the understanding of the electronic properties of semiconductors made from organic materials. His current research interests include the fundamental electronic processes involved in charge photo- generation in molecular semiconductors. He takes a keen interest in the commercialisation of his research.

Mr Jonathan Rose is an architect and master-planning practice leader at AECOM Design & Planning. Current work includes master plans for Singapore Sports Hub and for the University of Cambridge at West + North West Cambridge. Both projects won top honours at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore last year, for Best Completed Sports Buildings and for Masterplan of the Year respectively.

Professor Robert McCorquodale is the Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. He is an alumnus of Fitzwilliam College (Law 1987), Professor of International Law and Human Rights and former Head of the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, and a barrister at Brick Court Chambers in London.

Ambassador Bilahari Kausikan is currently Ambassador-at-Large and Policy Advisor in the Singaporean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2001 to 2013, Mr Kausikan was first the Second Permanent Secretary and then Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previous appointments include Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York and Ambassador to the Russian Federation.

Assistant Professor Swati Jhaveri joined NUS Law in 2012 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research includes public law and the law of torts. She was awarded the University's Teaching Excellence Award for 2013/2014. After her BA and BCL (distinction) from the University of Oxford, she practiced at Allen & Overy, specialising in international commercial arbitration. She is a Solicitor of the Hong Kong SAR and England & Wales.

Sir Franklin Berman QC joined HM Diplomatic Service in 1965 and was the Legal Adviser to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from 1991 to 1999. For the past 15 years he has been in practice in Essex Court Chambers in London. He is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, a former Judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice, and Visiting Professor of International Law at Oxford and at the University of Cape Town.

Ms Foo Chi Hsia is High Commissioner of the Republic of Singapore to the UK and her prior overseas posting was to New York, from 2001 to 2002. At the Ministry HQ, her responsibili-ties ranged from the Americas to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Ms Foo was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Silver) by the Government of Singapore in 2008, and the Dame Commander of the Victorian Order by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

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Conference: LEE KUAN YEW CONFERENCE | User name: LKYC31 | Password: LKYC15

In the year that Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary and mourns its founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, this conference brings together expert speakers to explore its contested history and politics, the challenges of resource provision, and its legal system. Lee Kuan Yew, who died in March 2015, was the first Prime Minister of Singapore, governing from 1959 to 1990. He studied law at Fitzwilliam from 1947 to 1949, and was made an Honorary Fellow in 1969.

PROGRAMME

2.00-2.15pm Introduction

The Master of Fitzwilliam College Dr John Cleaver: Lee Kuan Yew at Fitzwilliam

2.15-3.15pm Singapore today

Chair: Dr Tim Harper Professor Chua Beng Huat: The reality of Singaporean society today Dr P J Thum: Lee Kuan Yew’s political legacy Dr R Leow: Lee Kuan Yew’s pan-Asian legacies: Singapore and the rise of China

3.30-4.30pm The scientific future of Singapore

Chair: Professor Gordon Redding Lord (Ron) Oxburgh: Singapore and water—virtue from necessity Professor Sir Richard Friend: The commitment to long-term R&D at NUS and NTU Mr Jonathan Rose: Singapore 2030—the city’s maturing, planned environment

4.30-5.00pm Tea: Auditorium/Marquee

5.00-6.00pm Singapore in a global context

Chair: Professor Robert McCorquodale Ambassador-at-Large Bilahari Kausikan: Geographical developments: Lee Kuan Yew’s cast of mind and its lasting influence Professor Swati Jhaveri: Constitutional design and renewal in Singapore Sir Franklin Berman QC: Singapore and international law

6.00-6.15pm Concluding remarks

Ms Foo Chi Hsia, High Commissioner for the Republic of Singapore to the UK and Northern Ireland Student representatives: Vote of thanks

For those staying for dinner, drinks will be served 6.45-7.30pm in Upper Hall 2, fol-lowed by dinner in the Hall. The College bar will be open for conference attendees.

SPEAKER AND CHAIR BIOGRAPHIES

The Master of Fitzwilliam College, Mrs Nicola Padfield is Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge, and has been a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College since 1991. She has been Master of Fitzwilliam College since 2013. Her main research focus is on sentencing law and practice, and in particular the law on release from, and recall to, prison.

Dr John Cleaver is a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, which he joined as a Research Fellow in 1971. His research interests have been in the physics and fabrication of microelectronic and nanoelectronic devices. More recently he has written a history of Fitzwilliam (on sale in the Porters’ Lodge) and is currently working on further topics from the archives.

Dr Tim Harper is Reader in Southeast Asian and Imperial History, and a Fellow of Magdalene College. He is Associate Director of the Centre for History and Economics where he co-convenes research projects on Sites of Asian Interactions: Networks, Ideas, Archives.

Professor Chua Beng Huat is currently Provost Chair Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore. He is a public intellectual who regularly comments on local social political developments. As an academic he has published widely on Singaporean politics and its urban and public housing policies. He has completed a monograph tentatively titled: Disavowing Liberalism: Provocation from Singapore.

Dr P J Thum is co-ordinator of Project Southeast Asia at the University of Oxford. He is a Rhodes Scholar, Olympic athlete, the only Singaporean to swim the English Channel, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. His work centres on decolonisation and its continuing impact on Southeast Asian governance and politics. He is creator and host of The History of Singapore, a weekly radio show (www.thehistoryofsingapore.com).

Dr Rachel Leow is University Lecturer in Modern East Asian History at the University of Cambridge. Her research is concerned with the social, cultural and intellectual links between China and Chinese communities in maritime Southeast Asia. She is currently writing a book on language, nationalism and colonialism in the making of modern Malaysia.

Professor Gordon Redding is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Education UCL, and was Director of the Euro-Asia and Comparative Research Centre prior to its planned move to Singapore. An alumnus of Fitzwilliam College (Geography 1955), he is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hong Kong, where he founded and directed the business school.

Ron Oxburgh (Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool) trained as a geologist/geophysicist (Oxford & Princeton). He subsequently taught and researched at Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, and Caltech. He has been President of Queens' College Cambridge, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK MoD, Rector of Imperial College, Chairman of Shell Transport & Trading, Chairman of the Lords' Select Committee on Science and Technology. He is an Honorary Citizen of Singapore.