GPSC Events

A Conversation with Khoo Teng Chye: Singapore's Development - Urban Governance & Infrastructure Financing

25 March 2019
12:30
  / 
I Building (1850 I Street, NW) Room 8-340

World Bank Headquarters, Washington, DC

The Global Platform for Sustainable Cities (GPSC) cordially invites you to a lunch conversation with Mr. Khoo Teng Chye, who is the Executive Director of Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities. He has had a distinguished career in urban development. During this lunch session, Mr. Khoo will share key learning points from Singapore’s urban development journey since its independence in 1965. His presentation will focus upon Singapore’s systems approach to dynamic urban governance and how the city-state has financed the development of its infrastructure.

Chair

Mr. Sameh Wahba, GSURR Director, World Bank

Speaker

Mr. Khoo Teng Chye, Executive Director, Centre for Liveable Cities, Ministry of National Development, Singapore

Discussants

Mr. Siva Rama Krishna Sastry.J, Director of Strategy, Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority, India

Ms. Xueman Wang, Senior Urban Specialist and GPSC Program Manager, GSURR, World Bank

 

You can download Mr. Khoo Teng Chye's presentation here. Please note that all rights of this presentation belong to the Centre for Liveable Cities. 

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