King Wang Poon

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

Poon King Wang is the Director of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Poon's research focuses on the human dimensions of smart cities and digital economies, and the impact of digital transformation on the future of work, education, and healthcare, and on society at large.

Drawing from extensive public and private sector experiences, Poon has served in the Economic Development Board; Ministry of Law; Agency for Science, Technology and Research; and the Competition Commission of Singapore. In the private sector, he was head of business analytics at one of Singapore's largest banks, and was a strategy advisor to a mobile local search startup.

King Wang holds a MSc (Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management) from Stanford University and a BSc (Electrical Engineering) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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