Six on the board, three alumni

The board and secretariat who govern the institute, and the researchers who work with it, bring together scholarship, entrepreneurship, technology, public safety, applied business, public policy, and cross-border institutional experience.

Board, Leadership & Researchers

Dr. Grace YangVice Chair, Board of DirectorsManagement scholar and institutional leader working across entrepreneurship, organisational psychology, innovation governance, environmental conservation, youth grants, and animal welfare.Read profileDr. Andrew TanHonorary Director — Entrepreneurship AdvisorySingaporean entrepreneur, educator, author, and cross-cultural business strategist with more than 25 years of experience across IT, financial services, consulting, and experiential retail.Read profileDr. Haoran LiScience & Technology Intelligence AdvisorAssistant Professor in robotics at XJTLU and Director of the XJTLU-ChangingTek Robotics Joint Laboratory, focused on dexterous robotic hands and vision-based tactile sensors.Read profileDr. Kaibin HeHonorary Director — Technology SupportCo-Founder of Credamo, a data intelligence and online research platform serving universities and enterprises with survey design, sample access, data cleaning, and statistical modelling.Read profileOrlando LengSecretaryResearcher, civic leader, and institutional strategist working at the intersection of public safety, digital governance, international youth development, and APYCF's global operations.Read profileDr. Mohammad HeydariHonorary DirectorLecturer in applied business at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, focused on management science, decision-making, operations research, supply chain management, and analytics.Read profileDr. Eun Joo KwonResearcher — Public Policy and Programme EvaluationApplied public policy researcher working across education policy, public finance, health and well-being, and programme evaluation, with a Ph.D. from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.Read profileBokyung (Bailey) ParkData Collection AssociateGraduate student in business analytics and artificial intelligence at Johns Hopkins, working across data quality evaluation, technology policy, and structured research, with earlier research roles at the Korea Foundation and the Institute of World Politics.Read profile

APYCF alumni continue to advance educational equity, intelligent work research, and rigorous cross-border scholarship across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Our Alumni

Dr. Jovie TangAlumniMathematics educator, international researcher, and advocate for educational equity whose work focuses on digital education, artificial intelligence, and the urban-rural resource gap.Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Economics, Culture & SocietyRead profileDr. Yiting WangAlumniResearcher in corporate management whose work examines human-AI collaboration, occupational psychology, transportation safety, smart tourism, employee well-being, and organisational adaptation.Doctoral candidate, Beijing Jiaotong UniversityRead profileSinian ChenOutstanding Alumni RepresentativeScholar and practitioner working across international economic cooperation, institutional compliance, spatial economics, cross-border trade, and quantitative manuscript review.Journal specialist · Regional trade and spatial economics researcherRead profile