Yooil BAE, Assistant Professor of Political Science, presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of the Korean Studies Association of Australasia and World Congress for Korean Politics and Society 2009 on Decentralisation and Transformation of Central State in South Korea: The Role of Local and Civil Society and State Restructuring and Diffusion of Policy Ideas: Politics of Decentralisation in Korea and Japan.

Michael BENOLIEL, Practice Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources, published a new book Negotiating co-authored with Wei HUA, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources.

David CHAN, Deputy Provost and Professor of Psychology, was appointed Principal Consultant for a study on Values and Attitudes of Singapore Public Service Officers commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Office. He completed A Longitudinal study on National Servicemen (Full-time) in the Singapore Armed Forces commissioned by the Ministry of Defence.

Hannah CHANG, Assistant Professor of Marketing, was conferred Best Paper Award for Differential Reliance on Feelings in the Present vs. the Future (or Past): Affect as a Decision Making System of the Present at the La Londe Conference in June 2009 at La Londe les Maures, France.

CHENG Shih-Fen, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, presented at the Workshop on Services Analytics and Applications in Singapore on 10 July 2009 with Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management Michael PINEDO from New York University and adjunct faculty LYE Kong Wei and Shanker SELVADURAI.

Mark CHONG, Practice Associate Professor of Corporate Communication, was principal investigator for a joint study between SMU and the Investor Relations Professionals Association (Singapore) examining the perception of Singapore-based fund managers on investor relations standards in SGX-listed companies.

FOO See Liang, Practice Associate Professor of Accounting, presented the findings of a research survey, commissioned by ACRA, on Process and Considerations in the Appointment and Change of External Auditors of Listed Companies in Singapore at the Public Accountants Conference held on 19 August 2009.

Michael FURMSTON, Dean, School of Law and Professor of Law, was an invited speaker on Letters of Intent at the 8th Oxford-Norton Rose Colloquium in St Hugh’s College, Oxford University, UK from 18 to 19 September 2009.

Henry GAO, Associate Professor of Law, has been conferred tenure from 1 January 2010 and has been appointed by the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a member of the Advisory Board of the WTO Chairs Programme. He was invited by the Asian Development Bank and APEC to provide training on WTO rules to government officials in Asia in Bangkok and Manila in September 2009.

GENG Xuesong, Lecturer of Management, presented a paper Categorical Distortion in Evaluation of Innovation and Competition in the Stock Market at the annual Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago, USA from 7 to 11 August 2009.

Kenneth HUANG, Assistant Professor of Management, authored a paper Knowledge Production in Innovative Firms under Uncertain Intellectual Property Conditions selected to be published in the 2009 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

Annie KOH, Dean of Executive & Professional Education and Associate Professor of Finance, chaired the Maritime Manpower Singapore Conference on Upturning the Downturn; Turning Crisis into Opportunities in July 2009 and the panel of judges for Banking Sector Superstar (The Association of Banks in Singapore) in September 2009.

Bernard LEE, Deputy Director of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, was awarded the Proof-of-Concept grant in August 2009 by the National Research Foundation for his HedgeSPA.com which monitors hedge fund and structured products investments.

Jack Tsen-Ta LEE, Assistant Professor of Law, presented Freedom of Speech and Contempt by Scandalising the Court in Singapore at the International Association of Law Schools Conference on Constitutional Law in Washington DC in September 2009.

Sheen S. LEVINE, Assistant Professor of Management, won a financial grant from The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics for his research on the institutionalisation of financial markets, co-authored with Edward J. Zajac, Distinguished Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg Business School.

LIM Ee-Peng, Professor of Information Systems, spoke at the Enterprise Risk and Security Management Workshop on Social Network Analysis for Heterogeneous Networks in Taipei on 21 September 2009.

LIM Yun Fong, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, served as Cluster Chair of Workforce Management for INFORMS 2009 in San Diego, USA in October 2009.

Steven MILLER, Dean, School of Information Systems and Practice Professor of Information Systems, and MA Dan, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, were guest speakers at the MIS Asia IT Summit 2009 – Enterprise IT in 2009: Caution, Consolidation and Cost Control in Singapore on 24 July 2009.

Mahdev MOHAN, Assistant Professor of Law, is the first Singaporean to be awarded the 2009 Carl Mason Franklin Prize by Stanford Law School for the most distinguished paper in the field of international law for his master’s thesis The Paradox of Victim-Centrism which will be published in the International Criminal Law Review.

S. Chandra MOHAN, Practice Associate Professor of Law, is appointed Editor and Contributor of the two-volume book Criminal Procedure in Singapore and Malaysia published by LEXISNexis.

Thomas Brian MOONEY, Practice Associate Professor of Philosophy, John WILLIAMS, Associate Professor of Philosophy, TAN Yoo Guan, Associate Dean, School of Social Sciences and Practice Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ilya FARBER, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Philosophy co-authored Thinking Things Through: An Introduction to Analytical Thinking.

Desai NARASIMHALU, Practice Professor of Information Systems, was invited to participate in a panel discussion on The Creative Commons and New Media: Is Digital Rights Management Obsolete? at the International Workshop on Regulatory Policies for New Media in Leipzig, Germany from 23 to 25 September 2009.

PANG Yang Hoong, Dean, School of Accountancy and Professor of Accounting, collaborated with FOO See Liang, Practice Associate Professor of Accounting, LEONG Kwong Sin, Associate Professor of Accounting, and John Joseph WILLIAMS, Practice Associate Professor of Accounting, to publish two guidebooks Asking Tougher Questions in Tough Times and Oversight of Risk: The Role of Audit Committees Today, together with the KPMG Audit Committee Institute.

Sudhi SESHADRI, Practice Associate Professor of Marketing, was awarded a two-year grant under the NOL Fellowship Programme for research into eco-friendly and sustainable business practices.

Jennifer STUCKEY-CLARKE, Practice Associate Professor of Law, was invited to be a member of the Intellectual Property Advisory Board of the Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) based in Vienna.

Themin SUWARDY, Practice Associate Professor of Accounting, published a case book Understanding Financial Statements: A Case-Based Approach with all royalties from sales donated to the SMU Community Services Projects Grant.

TAN Wee Liang, Associate Professor of Management, participated at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s Asian Family Business Roundtable in Hong Kong on 20 August 2009.

David T. WAGNER, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources, published a paper Changing to Daylight Saving Time Cuts Into Sleep and Increases Workplace Injuries in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Bridget WELSH, Associate Professor of Political Science, co-edited Impressions of The Goh Chok Tong Years In Singapore published by the NUS Press and Institute of Policy Studies.

Jason WOODARD, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, presented Strategic Responses to Standardisation: Embrace, Extend or Extinguish at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Chicago, USA in August 2009.

Jun YU, Professor of Economics, spoke on Forecasting Realised Volatility Using a Nonnegative Semiparametric Model at the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Conference in June 2009.