Alexandar ANGELUS, Associate Professor of Operations Management delivered a seminar at City University of Hong Kong in February 2010 on Managing Capacitated Multiechelon Systems with Domain-Optimal Policies, a joint research with Adam ZHU, Assistant Professor of Operations Management.

Shurojit CHATTERJI, Associate Professor of Economics, was appointed Associate Editor of Singapore Economic Review from January 2010.

Davin CHOR, Assistant Professor of Economics, was appointed member of the REACH (Reaching Everyone for Active Citizenry@Home) Policy Study Workgroup on Manpower Issues for 2010.

DO Quoc Anh, Assistant Professor of Economics, received the Tullock Prize for Best Empirical Paper at the Australasian Public Choice Conference in Melbourne in December 2009 for his paper, Corruption, Delays and the Pattern of Trade.

John DONALDSON, Assistant Professor of Political Science, presented Transforming China’s Agriculture: Social and Political Effects of New Paths to Chinese Agrarian Capitalism at the International Studies Association 51st Annual Convention, New Orleans in February 2010.

Don FERRIN, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources, co-organised a conference track on Trust in the Context of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Fifth EIASM Workshop on Trust Within and Between Organisations in Madrid in January 2010. He gave a keynote address at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society, Division of Occupational Psychology, in Brighton, UK in January 2010. He was appointed to the Board of Governors of the First International Network on Trust, an international body of trust researchers based in Europe.

Fangjian FU, Assistant Professor of Finance, presented Strategic Financial Management: Evidence from Seasoned Equity Offerings at the American Finance Association Annual Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia in January 2010.

Henry GAO, Associate Professor of Law, delivered a three-day training on Trade Policy in Jakarta at the invitation of the ASEAN Secretariat in February 2010. He also spoke on China and the WTO at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington DC in March 2010.

GOH Beng Wee, Assistant Professor of Accounting, Kevin OW YONG, Assistant Professor of Accounting, and Jeffrey NG (MIT) received a US$25,000 external research grant, funded by the KPMG Foundation, from the International Association for Accounting Education & Research to conduct research that aims to inform the IASB Standard Setting Process in January 2010.

Kenneth G. HUANG, Assistant Professor of Management, was appointed to the Program Committee of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology (2010) to be held in Singapore.

Pasha L. HSIEH, Assistant Professor of Law, published The Taiwan Question and the One-China Policy: Legal Challenges with Renewed Momentum in Die Friedens-Warte: Journal of International Peace and Organization in January 2010.

Eduard JORDAAN, Assistant Professor of Political Science, presented South Africa and Changing Global Balance of Power at the Workshop on Perspectives on the Changing Global Balance of Power at the University of Glasgow, UK in March 2010.

KIM Kyung-Hwan, Visiting Professor of Economics, published Three Pillars of Mortgage Credit Risk Management: A Conceptual Framework and the Case of Korea, co-authored with Man CHO, in Housing Finance International.

Bernard LEE, Deputy Director of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, and CHENG Shih-Fen, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, presented An Analysis of Extreme Price Shocks and Illiquidity Among Systematic Trend Followers, co-authored with Annie KOH, Dean of Executive and Professional Education and Associate Professor of Finance, at a joint ETH-NUS conference on Computational Topics in Finance and the 20th Annual Asia Pacific Futures Research Symposium (Hong Kong) in February 2010.

LI Rong, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, presented Two-period Coordination for a Single Supplier Multiple Buyers Supply Chain with Adjustment Contract at the First POMS-HK International Conference in December 2009.

LIM Yun Fong, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, co-authored Self-Organizing Logistics Systems with John J. BARTHOLDI, III and Donald D. EISENSTEIN for the Annual Reviews in Control journal and the 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing in Moscow in June 2009.

Thomas MENKHOFF, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources (Practice), with Professors Hans-Dieter EVERS (Bonn University) and CHAY Yue Wah (UniSIM) published the 2nd edition of Governing and Managing Knowledge in Asia in February 2010.

Steven MILLER, Dean, School of Information Systems, and Professor of Information Systems (Practice), Robert DENG, Professor of Information Systems, and LI Yingjiu, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, was Honorary Chair, General Co-Chair and Programme Co-Chair respectively at the Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDsec’10 Asia) in Singapore in February 2010.

Mahdev MOHAN, Assistant Professor of Law, was appointed Associate Fellow to the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. He represented Singapore at the 17th ASEAN ISIS Colloquium on Human Rights and Human Security in ASEAN Integration in February 2010 and presented The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights – Challenges and Prospects for Human Rights Promotion and Protection.

Thomas Brian MOONEY, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Practice), presented Loyalty and Friendship: Legal Dimensions at the Criminal Justice Ethics on Loyalty organised by Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University in February 2010.

Desai NARASIMHALU, Professor of Information Systems (Practice), spoke on Creating Innovations That Matter at the Abu Dhabi Innovation Forum in Abu Dhabi, UAE in January 2010.

Michael NETZLEY, Assistant Professor of Corporate Communication (Practice), has been appointed 2010 Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR), a global, non-profit think tank in media and communications.

Clara PORTELA, Assistant Professor of Political Science, presented Coherence and Incoherence in European Foreign Policy at the International Studies Association 51st Annual Convention, New Orleans in February 2010.

REB Jochen and Gary GREGURAS, Associate Professors of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources published Understanding Performance Ratings: Dynamic Performance, Attributions, and Rating Purpose in Journal of Applied Psychology in January 2010.

Tobias RETTIG, Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, presented Microcosms of Things to Come: Vietnamese Garrison and Barracks / Camp Diasporas in Shanghai and France at the Cusp of Independence, 1940-1946 at the Beyond Borders: Alternative Voices and Histories of the Vietnamese Diaspora, University of Washington, Seattle in March 2010.

Rajendra K. SRIVASTAVA, Provost, Deputy President (Academic Affairs) and Professor of Marketing, was presented the Sheth Foundation Best Paper Award for his paper Market-Based Capabilities and Financial Performance of Firms: Insights Into Marketing’s Contribution to Firm Value at the annual Academy of Marketing Science Conference in Portland, Oregon in May 2010.

TAN Wee Liang, Associate Professor of Management, contributed the chapter Small Is Still Beautiful and Sustainable in the book Sustainable Economy: Corporate, Social & Environmental Responsibility, edited by Raymond W.Y. KAO.

Christopher TING Hian Ann, Associate Professor of Quantitative Finance (Practice), was appointed Head of Quantitative Finance Unit from January 2010.

Rong WANG, Assistant Professor of Finance, co-wrote the paper Industry Recommendations: Characteristics, Investment Value, and Relation to Firm Recommendations which was accepted at the American Finance Association Annual Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia in January 2010.

Mitchell C. WARACHKA, Associate Professor of Finance, presented The Disparity Between Long-Term and Short-Term Forecasted Earnings Growth at the American Finance Association Annual Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia in January 2010.

Bridget WELSH, Associate Professor of Political Science, was roundtable discussant for United States Policy Toward Southeast Asia: Opportunities and Obstacles for the Obama Administration at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting 2010, Philadelphia, USA in March 2010.