LIM CHIN Professor of Economics & Business Policy Department of Business Policy, NUS Business School National University of Singapore, Singapore 117592 Telephone: (65) 90468661, Fax: (65) 67795059, Email: bizlimc@nus.edu.sg

Dr. Lim Chin is a Professor of Economics & Business Policy at the Department of Business Policy in NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to joining NUS in 1986, he was a tenured Associate Professor at University of Western Ontario, Canada. His publications on behavior of the firm, market structure, market contestability, labor contract structure, public goods and urban economics appear in leading academic journals such as such as American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Rand Journal of Economics, Economica, European Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Economics Letters, and Transportations Research. Because of the high frequency of citations of his publications in the Social Science Citation Index, he is listed in Mark Blaug (2nd edition (1987) and 3rd Edition (1999)): “Who’s Who in Economics: A Biographic Dictionary of Major Economists”.

He had served as Dean of NUS Business School 2004-5, Vice Dean of Research & Academic Affairs in 2002-03, and as Vice Dean of Research & Graduate Studies in 2001-02. In 1988-90 he was the founding Head of Department of Business Policy.

He has consulted widely in both private and public corporations such as the American Express, Coopers & Lybrand, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Contractors’ Association, Singapore Cement Industry Association, Tenaga Nasional Bhd, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Health, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Urban & Redevelopment Authority, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Government Investment Corporation of Singapore, and Department of Consumer & Corporate Affairs (Government of Canada) and the World Bank. In 1989-90, he was a member the Ministry of Trade & Industry’s National Economic Planning Committee (NEPC) in connection with the drafting of Singapore’s long term strategic economic plan. He was a member of the National Health Policy Review Committee in 1990-91.

He is currently a member of the Market Surveillance & Compliance Panel (MSCP) of Singapore’s New Energy Market, an independent body established under the Singapore Electricity Market Rules to monitor and enforce compliance with the Market Rules and to monitor and ensure efficiency and fairness in the wholesale electricity market.