Sharon Siddique

Sharon Siddique

Sharon

Siddique

2016

Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Singapore

Visiting Professorial Fellow

Sharon Siddique, a development sociologist, is currently a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the LKY CIC (Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities) at SUTD (Singapore University of Technology and Design) and a director of Sreekumar.Siddique & Co, a regional research consulting firm, founded in 1994. She specialises in policy design and socio-political strategy for public and private sector corporations, and in urban development and social restructuring in Southeast Asia. She is also a director of the Asian Urban Lab, which is a not-for-profit company set up to promote research and networking on architecture and urbanism in Asia. She previously worked at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (1977-1994). She has published widely in newspapers, journals, and books. Some of her most recent books are: Mind the Gaps: Singapore Business in China (with Sree Kumar and Yuwa Hedrick-Wong – 2005), Southeast Asia: The Diversity Dilemma (with Sree Kumar – 2008), Singapore Shifting Boundaries: Social Change in the Early 21st Century (with William Lim and Tan Dan Feng, eds -2011) and Batam – Whose Hinterland? (with Sree Kumar – 2013).