Ooi Giok Ling

CURRENT POSITIONS	Short CV
Professor at the Humanities and Social Studies Education Department, National Institute of Education. Adjunct Professorial Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Tutor, Dept of Geography, University of Malaya, 1975-78. Lecturer, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1981-82. Lecturer, University of Malaya, 1982-83. Executive Systems and Research Officer, Housing and Development Board, Singapore, 1983-89. Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies, 1989-1990 Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies, 1990-2003 Director, Research Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore [on secondment 1995-1997]
EDUCATION
BA (First Class Honours), University of Malaya, 1975; MA, University of Malaya, 1978. PhD, Australian National University, Canberra, 1983.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Housing and Urban Studies: Public Housing Policies, New Town and Urban Planning, Heritage Conservation Environment: Globalisation, Sustainable Development, Nature Conservation
MAJOR PROJECTS
Urban Sustainable Development Index, 2002 Survey of Ethnicity, National Identity and Sense of Rootedness, 2001 World Conference on Model Cities, 1999 Conference on Civil Society: Harnessing State-Society Synergies, 6-7 may 1998
MAJOR PPUBLICATIONS
Books/Reports: Beyond the port city: Development and Identity in 21st Century Singapore Ooi, G.L. & Brain J. Shaw. Sinagapore: Prentice Hall, 2004 Model Cities – Urban Best Practices (Volumes I and II) Ooi, G.L., ed. Singapore: Urban Redevelopment Authority & IPS, 2000 State-Society Relations in Singapore Koh, G. & G.L. Ooi, eds. Singapore: IPS & Oxford University Press, 2000 The City and the State – Singapore’s Built Environment Revisited Ooi, G.L. & K. Kwok, eds. Singapore: IPS & Oxford University Press, 1997 Environment and the City Ooi, G.L., ed. Singapore: IPS & Times Academic Press, 1995 Management of Ethnic Relations in Public Housing Estates in Singapore Ooi,G.L., S. Siddique & K.C. Soh. Singapore: IPS & Times Academic Press, 1993
Book Chapters/Journal Articles: The Politics of Planning Public Space in Singapore Hee, L. M. and G.L. Ooi, in Planning Perspectives, Vol. 18, 2003 The Role of the State in Nature Conservation in Singapore Ooi, G.L., in Society and Natural Resources, Vol. 15, 2002 The Developmental State and Public Spaces in Singapore Ooi, G.L. and L.M. Hee, in International Development Planning Review, Vol. 24, No.4, 2002 Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Business and Politics Ooi, G.L., S. Tay & Y.C. Kog, in International Environmental Cooperation: Politics and Diplomacy in Asia-Pacific, edited by P. Harris. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002 Industrialising Cities and the Environment in Pacific Asia: Toward a Policy Framework and Agenda for Action Douglass, M. & G.L. Ooi, in Asia’s Clean Revolution – Industry, Growth and the Environment, edited by D. Angel & M. Rock. Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing, 2000 Public Policies to Promote Cleaner Shared Growth in East Asia Rock, M. & G.L. Ooi, in Asia’s Clean Revolution – Industry, Growth and the Environment, edited by D. Angel & M. Rock. Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing, 2000 Globalisation, New Town Planning and Community in Singapore Ooi, G. L., in Globalisation and Changing Society in Singapore, edited by M. Kieserling. Germany: Suhrkamp-Verlag, 2000 Good Governance, Civic Education and Civil Society Ooi, G. L., in Civic Education for Civil Society, edited by M. Print, J. Ellickson-Brown & A.R. Baginda. London: ASEAN Academic Press, 1999 City, Civil Society and the Environment Ooi, G.L., in Cities and the Environment, edited by T. Inoguchi, T. Newman & G. Paelotto. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1999 The Third World City and Urbanisation Reconsidered Ooi, G. L., in Redefining the Third World, edited by N. Poku & L. Pettiford. London: MacMillan, 1998 Accountability for Quality Services in Singapore: A Case Study of Town Councils Ooi, G.L., in Regional Development Dialogue, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1997 Urban Heritage, Development and Tourism in Southeast Asian Cities: The Contestation Continuum Shaw, B.J., R. Jones & G. L. Ooi, in Contested Urban Heritage – Voices from the Periphery, edited by B.J. Shaw, & R. Jones. United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing, 1997 Ethnic Differences and Public Policy in Singapore Teo, P. & G.L. Ooi, in Ethnicity and Development, edited by D. Dwyer & D. Drakakis-Smith. United Kingdom: John Wiley and Sons, 1996 Environmental Management in Singapore Ooi, G.L., in Environmental Change: Industry, Power and Policy, edited by M. Taylor. England: Avebury, 1995 Environment and the City: Sharing Singapore's Experience and Future Challenges Ooi, G.L., in National Environmental Enforcement Journal, Vol. 10, No. 5, 1995 National Identity, Public Housing and Conservation in Singapore Ooi, G.L. in Habitat International, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1994 Centralized Approach in Environmental Management: the Case of Singapore Ooi, G.L., in Sustainable Development, Vol. 2, 1994 Urban Policy and Retailing Trends in Singapore Ooi, G.L., in Urban Studies, Vol. 28, No. 4, 1991
Others: Post-Development and Southeast Asian Geographies Ooi, G.L., presented at the Regional Meeting, 3 July 2006, organized by the International Geographical Union, Brisbane Urban Economic Growth and Sustainability Ooi, G. L., presented at the Opening Plenary of the International Federation of Housing and Planning (IFHP) Spring Conference, 29-31 May, 2006, Macau The Role of Social Policy and Urban Poverty Ooi, G.L., presented at the Urban Research Symposium, 9 - 11 Dec 2002, organised by the World Bank Heritage Conservation and the Role of Governance Ooi, G.L., presented at the Regional Conference on Urban Revitalisation and Governance In Asia, 24 - 25 Oct 2002, organised by the University of the Philippines Globalisation, Urbanisation and the Marginalised in Singapore Ooi, G.L., presented at the Fifth Conference on Globalisation, Growth and (In)Equality, 15 - 17 Mar 2002, organised by the University of Warwick Convergence and Divergence – Globalisation and Sustainable Development Ooi, G.L., presented at the UN Workshop on Sustainable Development, 11 - 12 Feb 2002, organised by the United Nations Self-Determination for Public Housing Residents: Negotiations for Space and Place Ooi, G.L., presented at the Town Council 21 Conference, 7 Dec 2000 Civil Society, the City and Environment Ooi, G.L., presented at the World Conference on International Cooperation of Cities and Citizens, 26 - 29 May 1998, organised by the United Nations & Tokyo Metropolitan Government Environment and Development in Singapore: the Policy Opportunity Ooi, G.L., presented at the Symposium on "Towards a Clean Revolution in Asia", 18 - 19 Mar 1998, organised by Clark University, Worcester – US Metropolitan Development Financing: Case-Study of Singapore Ooi, G.L., in Financing Metropolitan Development – Public-Private Sector Roles, Research Report Series No. 35. Nagoya: United Nations Centre for Regional Development & Nagoya Centre for Urban Advancement, 1999
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Member, TRUST Central, Central Community Development Council, 2002 - current Member, Singapore Green Plan Coordinating Committee, 2002 – current Member, Public Advisory Panel on Licensing, 2001 – current Member, Customers’ Advisory Panel, Sentosa Development Corporation, 2001 – current Member, Advisory Board, Urban Environmental Programme, Far Eastern University, Manila, 2000 – current Member, Singapore International Foundation Awards Advisory Panel, 2000 – 2003 Member, Focus Group on Heritage, Identity and Intensive Land-use, Urban Redevelopment Authority, 2000 Member, Asia-Pacific Advisory Panel on Good Urban Governance, United Nations Development Programme, 1999 - current Chair, Committee for Social and Cultural Research, Mendaki, 1999 - 2000