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Mr Johnson Paul, worked as the Deputy Director for Government and Business Information Services (GBIS) of the National Library Board of Singapore (NLB) and concurrently served as Senior Strategy Consultant for Cybrarian Ventures (a venture company of the National Library Board). He has extensive corporate and strategic planning expertise, championing public sector wide “Value Innovation” framework for government and subsequently the project champion for Library 2010 and Project Deputy Chair of Library 2020. He has contributed to several research and case studies on NLB which includes Harvard, INSEAD and Yale case studies. He was an active member of the implementation committee for “Brand Singapore” inter-sector initiative, Tamil Internet Steering Committee and project coordinator for ASEAN INFONET, a regional information network. Mr Johnson has a wealth of experience in fund raising and served as a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Learning Award 2007 and 2008(USA) and Network for Information and Digital Access (UK) and Asia Dialogue Society (ADS, Bangkok).
Mr Johnson was invited to be member of the literati society of Emerald Intelligence in 2005 and serves as the international editor for PROGRAM (UK); editor for EPRINT, and NRIN. He has presented papers on several international conferences including the International Federation of Library Association, World Bank Knowledge Management group, European Union Cultural cluster. He also represented Singapore in receiving the International Award for the Most Admired Knowledge City (MAKCi) in 2008 and 2009. His specific strengths are in multipartite collaboration, executing cross-agency initiatives like Enterprise Business Information Services, a partnership with Singapore Business Federation, SPRING Singapore, IE Singapore and NLB. He had successfully engineered multi-sector collaboration in digitisation initiatives that represented NLB's pioneering effort in the digital domain. Within the public sector he is well known for executing international conferences, amongst others the World Library Summit which garnered 1,000 participants from across the world.
In July 2003, he completed an Executive Management Course with INSEAD under the Firefly Leadership Programme of the Economic Development Board (EDB.) In 2010 he completed a Management Development Programme of the Civil Service College. Johnson had contributed significantly to organizational change particularly in raising the scholarship profile of the National Library with the introduction of Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship and the National Library’s publishing initiative. Amongst others, the “National Directory of Humanities and Social Sciences Scholars in Singapore”, “BiblioAsia”, and “How Singapore Compares” has had wide international acclaim. |
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Sithara Doriasamy oversees corporate communications and manages the publications. She also coordinates events management.
Sithara brings along with her more than 14 years of journalistic experience, having worked as a senior correspondent with the Singapore Press Holdings and news producer with MediaCorp’s ChannelNews Asia. During her 20-year career, she has worked in both the private and public sectors, overseeing public affairs and corporate communications functions. She is also honed with years of experience in editorial and content management, events management, corporate presentation, marketing and heading large-scale national events and conferences. She is effectively bi-lingual in public speaking. Sithara is actively involved in grassroots and community work, and is regularly invited to chair focus group discussions. She was part of Singapore government’s Remaking Singapore Committee (Beyond Cars Sub-Committee) and Tamil Language Curriculum and Pedagogy Review Resource Panel, Ministry of Education.
Sithara holds an MSc (International Relations) from the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (currently known as S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies), Nanyang Technological University and BA in Communications and Media Management from University of South Australia.
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Jacqueline Goh is primarily responsible for planning, organising and marketing ISAS events and programmes. She also assists in corporate communications functions.
Jacqueline has close to 12 years of experience in marketing and communications. Her experience includes editorial and collateral production, managing advertising and promotions campaigns, media relations and events management.
Jacqueline holds a Master of Business (International Travel & Tourism Management) degree from University of Queensland, Graduate Diploma in Marketing Communications from Marketing Institute of Singapore and a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) degree from Monash University, Melbourne.
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Kamarunnisa Shaul Hameed handles secretarial and administrative responsibilities. She also assists in events management.
Kama’s working experience of 16 years includes having worked as a project secretary cum administrator in a marine company, settlement officer at an asset management company and personal assistant to general manager in the private sector. Kama holds Diplomas in Private Secretary and Business Administration, both of which she received from London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, United Kingdom.
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Felicia Ho’s key responsibility involves the management of ISAS website, which includes social media communications. She also assists in media relations, publications and events management.
Felicia’s working experience includes corporate communications, corporate social responsibility, public relations and events management. She holds a degree in Journalism and Communications from Monash University, Australia and an advanced diploma in TESOL from London Teachers Training College.
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Kirby Khoo’s key responsibility involves managing financial processes and functions. He also assists in human resource matters such as payroll and recruitment, and events budgeting.
Kirby has served as Finance Management Executive in a commercial school. He has relevant experiences with AR AP, GL and GAAP. Kirby holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from University of South Australia and is committed to life-long learning. He is currently pursuing a professional course in certified public accountancy with CPA Australia.
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Mr P S Suryanarayana is Editor (Current Affairs) at ISAS. Prior to joining ISAS, he worked as a journalist for 35 years, holding several key positions with the Indian dailies, The Hindu and Indian Express. For over two-thirds of his 24 years career with The Hindu, he served with distinction as the newspaper’s foreign correspondent in diverse places like the Asia Pacific region (with Singapore as the base), Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
Mr Suryanarayana holds a Master’s Degree (MA) in Politics and Public Administration (University of Madras, India). He is the author of The Peace Trap: An Indo-Sri Lankan Political Crisis (Affiliated East-West Press: 1988). In 2011, he wrote a book chapter on India’s Place and ASEAN’s Primacy in the New East Asia (in ‘ASEAN matters!’ published by the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore). He attended a course at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, United States of America, in the summer of 1992.
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Mr Samuel Neo is the Human Resource, Senior Manger in ISAS. He has experience in industries including IT, Testing, Certification and Quality Management, Academia, and Defence. His experience covers areas such as software development, research, project management, marketing, general management, business development, Ecommerce and eGovernment.
Samuel is also a founding member of the Ecommerce Association of Singapore. He was also a key member of the EnterpriseOne government business information portal project, being involved from conceptualization to implementation. This included the promotion of the Online Business Licensing System eService.
Samuel holds an MSc in Physics, a First Class Honours in Physics (winning the IPS Silver Medal and Jurong Shipyard Book Prizes), British Computer Society Professional qualification and a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance awarded by ACCA.
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Muhammad Yusuf’s main responsibilities include managing the ISAS IT systems and all web applications. He will also provide assistance with procurement and technical support, mainly audio/video recording during of ISAS events.
Yusuf has almost 20 years of working experience. He had previously served in the National Library Board as a technical support officer (IT) at the former National Reference Library and the board’s Infocomm Deartment. Prior to that, Yusuf has also worked in NUS as a laboratory technologist with the Dept of Surgery.
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