Research Fellow/Postdoc positions in environmental or ecological economics, with a substantive emphasis on climate, water, energy, forests, and sustainable livelihoods.
The Institute for Environment & Sustainability (IES) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore has openings for exciting, cutting edge, and problem focused post-doctoral/research fellow positions in environmental or ecological economics, with an emphasis on climate, water, energy, forests, and sustainable livelihoods.
Successful applicants will contribute to IES mission to advance “fit for purpose policy analysis”, and its emphasis on policy design capacity building and policy learning. Successful applicants will contribute to IES’ burgeoning Climate Policy Design Lab (CPDL) and/or its Center for Water Policy (CWP). The candidate will lead policy-relevant research projects, take responsibility for project and grant management, and contribute to stakeholder liaison and outreach of the Institute.. All candidates should have a strong willingness to contribute to IES’s mission and to engage with new topics and research tools.
Those seeking further information to assess their potential for this position, are welcome to contact co-Deputy Director, Maki Nakajima (sp...@nus.edu.sg). Please send your CV to express your interest.
Responsibilities:
· Design, implement and lead research projects under IES’s various research programmes.
· Prepare high quality research papers on topics related to IES’s core research themes suitable for publication in high-tier academic journals.
· Contribute to grant and institute-level reporting requirements and funding proposals/applications.
· Provide support for IES’s events and outreach activities.
· Engage with policy and research communities in Singapore, Asia, and around the world.
· As environmental problem solving requires integrating a diversity of knowledge and research, we welcome applicants who specialize in either qualitative or quantitative analysis.
Requirements
Ben Cashore
Li Ka Shing Professor in Public Management
Director, the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
National University of Singapore

Recent publications
2023 winner, with Sewerin and Howlett, Ken
Young Prize for best article in 2021 volume of Policy and Politics for “New pathways to paradigm change
in public policy: combining insights from policy design, mix and feedback” Policy and Politics June 23, pp 1-18
2023 Timo Busch, Michael L. Barnett, Roger Burritt, Benjamin Cashore, Edward Freeman, Irene Henriques, Bryan W. Husted, Rajat Panwar, Jonatan Pinkse, Stefan Schaltegger (corresponding author), & Jeff York, “Moving beyond ‘the’ business case: How to make corporate sustainability work”, Business Strategy and the Environment, July 31st
2023 Altaf Virani, Azad Singh Bali, Benjamin Cashore, Michael Howlett, M Ramesh, “The design roots of policy problems: Unpacking the role of procedural tools in design fitness and resilience” Public Administration, March
Contact information: Block 469C Bukit Timah Road, Oei Tiong Ham Building, Wing A, Level 2, 259772, Singapore, 259772; tel +65 6516 6195;
Email: spp...@nus.edu.sg ; Overview video; Web site; Google Scholar; twitter; linkedin; Personal zoom office
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The Institute for Environment & Sustainability (IES) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore has openings for exciting, cutting edge, and problem focused post-doctoral/research fellow positions in environmental or ecological economics, with an emphasis on climate, water, energy, forests, and sustainable livelihoods.
Successful applicants will contribute to IES mission to advance “fit for purpose policy analysis”, and its emphasis on policy design capacity building and policy learning. Successful applicants will contribute to IES’ burgeoning Climate Policy Design Lab (CPDL) and/or its Center for Water Policy (CWP). The candidate will lead policy-relevant research projects, take responsibility for project and grant management, and contribute to stakeholder liaison and outreach of the Institute.. All candidates should have a strong willingness to contribute to IES’s mission and to engage with new topics and research tools.
Those seeking further information to assess their potential for this position, are welcome to contact co-Deputy Director, Maki Nakajima (sp...@nus.edu.sg). Please send your CV to express your interest.
Responsibilities:
· Design, implement and lead research projects under IES’s various research programmes.
· Prepare high quality research papers on topics related to IES’s core research themes suitable for publication in high-tier academic journals.
· Contribute to grant and institute-level reporting requirements and funding proposals/applications.
· Provide support for IES’s events and outreach activities.
· Engage with policy and research communities in Singapore, Asia, and around the world.
· As environmental problem solving requires integrating a diversity of knowledge and research, we welcome applicants who specialize in either qualitative or quantitative analysis.
Requirements