Dr Png is the Lim
Kin San
Professor in the School of Business,
and Professor of
Information Systems and Economics at the
National
University of Singapore.
Previously, he
was a faculty member at the Anderson School, University of California,
Los Angeles (1985-96) and the Hong Kong University of Science &
Technology (1993-96).
Dr Png attended the
Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, and graduated with
first class honours in economics from the University of Cambridge
(1978) and a
PhD from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (1985).
His research
focuses on the economics of intellectual property, information
privacy, and pricing.
He is a Professorial Fellow of the
IP Academy.
He is the author of
Managerial
Economics, which has been translated into Chinese
(traditional characters), Chinese (simplified characters) and
Korean.
Dr Png is a
senior consultant with Economic Analysis
Associates LLP, and
a co-founder of Thothe
Technologies.
He
is an independent director of Hartford Education Corporation Ltd,
Hyflux Water Trust Management Pte Ltd, and
Healthway Medical Corporation Ltd. He was a nominated MP (10th Parliament of
Singapore), 2005-06.
Dr Png
speaks English and Chinese (Mandarin). He is
married to Ms Joy Cheng. They have two
sons, Max and Lucas.
