Mind the Gaps: Singapore Business in China

About the Authors

© 2005 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore About the Authors SREE KUMAR is a Director of Sreekumar Siddique & Co, an international research and consulting firm. In his varied career, he has been a development economist, management consultant, design engineer, R&D manager, and geophysical engineer in the oil and gas industry. In recent years he has specialized in policy design for governments, public sector reforms, trade and financial sector strategies, and in turning around stateowned enterprises. Sree has a multi-disciplinary background which includes an LLB (Hons) from the University of London; an M.Sc. in Development Economics from Oxford University; an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management; a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of London; and a BEng. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Singapore. He was previously a Fellow of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore (1990–94). SHARON SIDDIQUE is a Director of Sreekumar Siddique & Co, an international research and consulting firm. She monitors regional development, politics, demographic and social trends, and brings a wider perspective to traditional methods of quantitative analysis. She is a leading expert on ethnicity, cross-cultural studies, and religion, and has published extensively on Islam in the Asia-Pacific. Sharon began her interest in cultural studies via languages, earning a BAdegree in Linguistics (German and Spanish) from the University of Montana in the USA. After coming to Singapore in the late 1960s, she enrolled in the MA programme in Malay Studies at the University of Singapore. In the early 1970s she lived in Jakarta, where she did extensive fieldwork on culture and religion. She completed her Ph.D. in Development Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, in Germany. She was previously the Deputy Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (1990–94). © 2005 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore YUWA HEDRICK-WONG is Economic Advisor to MasterCard in Asia. He is a frequent commentator on CNBC and the BBC on current economic issues in the Asia Pacific, a visiting professor at the Chicago Business School in Singapore, and a published author on economic development and international relations. Yuwa gained his field experience in the early 1980s in Japan and China, and subsequently worked in Europe, SubSahara Africa, and the South Pacific. For the past 12 years, he has focused on the Asia Pacific region, concentrating specifically on areas of economic fundamentals and business strategies. Yuwa studied philosophy, political science and economics at Trent University, Ontario, Canada; and pursued post-graduate training in economics at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he received his Ph.D. About the Authors xiii ...