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Dr.
Tan Tay Keong
SENIOR CONSULTANT
Dr.
Tan Tay Keong is a Senior Consultant and Co-Founder of
Sea-Change Partners. He
serves as Executive Director of the Singapore International
Foundation, a non-profit
organization dedicated to promoting active global citizenship
in Singapore. The Foundation works in emerging and essential
areas such as sending volunteers overseas on development
assistance and humanitarian projects and developing civil
society through volunteer training and service learning
programs. He specializes in the practice areas of Public
Sector Governance, Corruption Control, and Ethics and
Decision-Making.
Tay Keong taught public policy analysis, strategic management,
political analysis, organizational analysis, and public
sector ethics in the Master in Public Policy Programme
at the National University of Singapore. Apart from training
graduate students in public policy, he also specialized
in teaching senior officials in executive programmes,
including the Commonwealth Top Management Programme,
Singapore-Commonwealth Senior Management Executive Programme,
and Harvard University’s Executive Program on Corruption
Control and Organisational Integrity.
From 2001-2003, he served in concurrent appointments
as Special Assistant to the Under-Secretary-General for
Internal Oversight and Chief-of-Staff of in the Office
of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) at the United Nations
headquarters in New York. OIOS is the supreme watchdog
agency of the UN with a mandate to promote transparency,
accountability, and quality management within the United
Nations. In OIOS, he played a major role in initiating
the Organizational Integrity Programme, the United Nations’ first
anti-corruption campaign and the agency’s Risk
Management Framework for oversight resource allocation
and work planning.
Earlier in his career, from 1988 to 1992, he served as
an Assistant Superintendent in the Singapore Police Force,
undertaking diverse appointments in human resource management,
operations planning, field command, and criminal investigations.
In operational management, he commanded a team of some
470 uniformed officers and more than 2,000 reserve officers.
He also served a stint as the principal staff officer
to the Director of Prisons and made a contribution to
the prison modernisation programs.
From 1999-2001, Dr. Tan served as Singapore’s representative
to the East Asia Vision Group, a thirteen-nation “eminent
persons group” charged by Asian leaders with developing
a political, economic, and social agenda for the future
of the Asia-Pacific region. His Master in Public Policy
degree and Ph.D. in Public Policy are from Harvard University’s
John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences, respectively.
Tay Keong may be reached at: taykeong@sea-changepartners.com |
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