Andrew’s areas of focus are development economics and performance management systems. His team is developing solutions for three major sustainable development issues in Malaysia: high carbon emissions, stunting due to chronic malnutrition and high loss of forest cover. Prior to joining JSC, Andrew served in the Prime Minister’s Department, where he was responsible for managing the KPI system for the ministries and the Central Bank of Malaysia where he worked on financial inclusion policies. He has facilitated multiple stakeholders to enhance Malaysian exports towards facilitating the country to achieve its high income goal by 2020. He has also designed and implemented risk-sharing and concessionary funding mechanisms to enable more access to financing by small and micro enterprises at an affordable cost.

Dr Fun is a Senior Fellow with special focus on low-carbon power generation and transportation. He received his Bachelor and Masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering ; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He spent much of his career working for Ford Motor Company, being appointed to the Board of Directors in 2003 and as Executive Director and Chief Corporate Representative. Throughout his time in industry, Dr Fun was involved in various universities as guest lecturer, and helped a local university to fund and set up a Center for Computer Aided Engineering.

Wai Sern is a Research Associate primarily concerned with the environmental issues of our time.  His work at the Institute allows him to explore this topic in depth as well as the complex interconnections between environmental concerns and the other main pillars of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). His work covers several of the SDGs, primarily affordable and clean energy (SDG7), sustainable cities and communities (SDG11), responsible consumption and production (SDG12) and climate action (SDG13). Ongoing projects include the decarbonisation of energy systems, off-grid solar energy and urban river rejuvenation. Wai Sern holds a Bachelor’s in Engineering from Monash University.

Karen is the Director of Operations at the Jeffrey Cheah Institute and Jeffrey Sachs Center, where she plans, organises and oversees all programs and activities. Prior to that, Karen was part of the senior management of the Razak School of Government where she led the development and delivery of senior level public sector executive education programmes; and research projects on public sector improvement. She was formerly the Research and Communications Manager to a prominent member of Malaysian royalty, with a research focus on human and economic development, governance, education, and national unity. Karen began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia as a strategy consultant. She is a certified career coach and regularly writes speeches and articles. She holds a Master of ASEAN Studies from the University of Malaya, and BSc in Finance and Accounting from the University of London.

Jeremy is a Research Associate with research areas in renewable energy technologies, energy policy and economic development. He is presently a researcher on a number of projects, including policies of decarbonising energy system, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ indicators and targets. He completed his Bachelor’s in Engineering from Monash University in 2015 with a scholarship from the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation. He has received a number of accolades in research and writing, such as being awarded Best in Malaysia for A Level General Paper and having an excerpt published in “Asia through the Eyes of Asia’s Tiger Cubs” by the Asia Business Council, on human capital flight. He has also been invited to join a number of fellowships and programs to train young leaders.

Jasmin is a Research Associate whose research interests include urban sustainability, socio-ecological studies, climate change and environmental education. Before joining the Institute, she was based in Astana, Kazakhstan as Green Growth Guru for Malaysia at EXPO 2017. Prior to that, she was a Research Assistant at the School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia and was involved in setting up Malaysia’s pioneer bike sharing system, Melaka Bike Share. Jasmin is actively involved with youth mobilisation at the climate change negotiations via the Malaysian Youth Delegation. She holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Environmental Science from the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus and Certificate in Environmental Issues from the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Clarissa is a Research Fellow with expertise in science and technology studies, science and technology policies and science communication. She currently runs two research projects: Healthy Ageing and Speculative Design; and Science and Technology for Sustainable Development (with particular focus on nuclear science and technology). Clarissa has experience in the deployment of interdisciplinary methodology that brings together approaches in the arts and sciences to mediate new approaches and thinking to new or old problems, and towards the shaping of new knowledge areas. She is also working on a book project that connects the past and present work of the JSC and JCI.

Dr Chong is a physicist specialising in condensed matter. He completed his PhD at Queen Mary University of London and worked at several universities in the UK prior to relocating back to Malaysia. He is involved in a number of international consortium projects in nuclear energy research, and has served as panellist for UK, USA, China and European Research Council. He was recently appointed as an overseas expert to assist Chongqing SAR in research and development infrastructure, especially in human capital training. He is currently an Ambassador of Academic and Research Partnerships at Sunway University, Malaysia.

Derek is a Research Associate whose research interests cover the interactions between law, politics and social policy. Before joining the Institute, Derek was an analyst at a Malaysian think tank, where he researched and developed policy interventions on violent extremism in Malaysia. Derek holds an LLB with first class honours from the University of Liverpool and was awarded a full scholarship to pursue an LLM in Transnational Law at King’s College London, where he graduated with distinction. Derek is the lead research associate for chronic malnutrition under the SDG Indicator project.

Aniq is a Research Assistant at the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia. His work at the Institute focuses on Malaysian higher education research. He works closely with Prof Ghauth Jasmon to organise seminars and public lectures on the subject. Before joining the JCI, he worked for Zalora, Malaysia’s largest online shopping company. He graduated from Multimedia University in Business Administration (Honours) majoring in Management with Multimedia, and is currently pursuing his MBA at University Kebangsaan Malaysia.