Prof at LKY School: S’pore can fit more than 8 million
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Prof at LKY School: S’pore can fit more than 8 million
Dr Parag Khanna (Photo: His website www.paragkhanna.com)
Speaking at the Straits Times Global Outlook Forum on Friday (29 Nov), Dr Parag Khanna, Senior Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, said that Singapore can fit 8 million people or more by the year 2030.
He said, “There is a much more physically devolved Singapore in which the towns play a much stronger role, in which there’s much more local economic activity and vibrancy, in which everyone is not cramping down into Orchard or CBD every single day. And that Singapore can most certainly accommodate a couple million more people.”
Population aside, he said that Singapore is also on its way to becoming a leading information state, using technology to canvas information and public opinion.
“As part of the national conversation here, people were creating stories about certain towns and areas within Singapore, and even geo-coding their emotions through various iPhone apps. There are all sorts of ways to harness these technologies.”
Who is Parag Khanna?
According to his own website (www.paragkhanna.com), he is a leading global strategist, world traveler, and best-selling author.
Born in India, he grew up in the UAE, New York, and Germany. He has travelled to more than 100 countries on all continents. Some of his lengthy journeys include driving from the Baltic Sea through the Balkans and across Turkey and the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea, across the rugged terrain of Tibet and Xinjiang provinces in western China, and eight thousand miles from London to Ulaanbaatar in the Mongolia Charity Rally. He has climbed numerous 20,000-foot plus peaks, and trekked in the Alps, Himalayas, and Tien Shan mountain ranges.
His resume states that he is a Director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, Adjunct Professor in the LKY School of Public Policy at the NUS, Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS, Senior Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Senior Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.
He is co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization(2012) and author of How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance(2011) and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008). In 2008, he was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List”.
Parag lectures frequently at international conferences and gives executive briefings to government leaders and major corporations on global trends, systemic risks, future scenarios, economic master planning, emerging market strategies, and technological disruptions. He has been an adviser to the U.S. National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 program. Previously, he served in the foreign policy advisory group to the Barack Obama for President campaign. During 2007 he served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a senior geopolitical adviser to United States Special Operations Forces. From 2002-5, he was the Global Governance Fellow at the Brookings Institution; from 2000-2002 he worked at the World Economic Forum in Geneva; and from 1999-2000, he was a Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
His website states: “A widely cited global intellectual, Dr. Khanna appears regularly in media around the world.”
He is a contributing columnist on CNN.com, regular guest host of CNBC, and the first video-blogger of ForeignPolicy.com. His essays and articles have appeared in major international newspapers and journals such as the Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Financial Times, TIME, Forbes, The Atlantic, Quartz, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Harper’s, BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, The National Interest, McKinsey Quarterly, Prospect, Esquire, Slate.com, Die Zeit, and Strategy+Business. He has been featured on CNN, BBC, PBS, Al Jazeera, CCTV, Russia Today, National Public Radio (NPR), and other media all over the world. From 2008-9, Parag was the host of “InnerView” on MTV. He spoke on “Invisible Maps” at TED Global 2009 and was a guest host of TED Global 2012.
Parag holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has been a Distinguished Visitor at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin (2008), Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly (2007-8), Visiting Fellow at the LKY School of Public Policy in Singapore (2006), Non-Resident Associate of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University (2004-5), and a Visiting Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi (2004).
He has received grants from the United Nations Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, and Ford Foundation. He currently serves on the executive boards of Independent Diplomat and the Micro Equity Development Fund, the board of trustees of the New Cities Foundation, Innovation Advisory Board of DBS, advisory board of the WEF’s Future of Urban Development Initiative, the advisory board of Ergo, and the editorial board of Global Policy.
In 2009, Parag was honored as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2002 he was awarded the OECD Future Leaders Prize. He speaks Hindi, German, French, Spanish, and basic Arabic.
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Sibeh ho chio! My toes are laughing!
This one is ah neh poring.
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Squeeze a bit more, 10-20 million also okay.
Tahan a bit more, Singapore can fit 30 million.
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he can fit them on the island he handily pulled out of his ass
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Sits 30 comfortably.
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oh yeah. when we take over msia.
and perhaps half of indonesia.
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This ah neh may be thinking of importing loads of ah neh from his India.
Ah Neh, we don't want gang rape criminals.
India = Land of Rape
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Professor at LKY school.....i guess he wants to be promoted. Gotta kiss S to move places wud probably b his philosophy. A yes man in the making.
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the amount of BS that is coming out of the establishment as time passes by is beyond the curve...
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Only time will tell whether it will be 7,8 or 20 million.
By that time, you hope you are not around to witness it.
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We can build taller hdb flats.
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Did he pay his qualification or bogus qualification?
Where we have the infrastructure to handle more?
If we have a couple of million more ppl, we would land up 1st in population density in the world, and we're already in the top 10 -__-
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Building more infrastructure is not a solution.
Singapore is only that small.
You can get step on the accelerator of a sports car and go 300km/h.
10s, 20s, 30s at that speed no problem.
You do that for 1 hour, see what happens.
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U mean u can go on 300 km/h for 30 sec without hitting a car or redlight or something???
no need 1 hour la~I think if u go hand in stooky's cai png theory, U can sure get the honorary PhD from this school~~~ Seriously, even that article makes more sense than this Dr Parang Kanah
Dr Char
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I am already painting the most positive scenario that you do not hit anything in the first 10 - 30s.
So cannot say I am biased.
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India can fit 2b too
why come here?
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Becoz sg is the best.
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MRT can cope with 8 million or not?
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Have not been to downtown for quite sometime.
Today once i exited the red line ,to transfer to the green one.
wow,the queue for the train heading towards pasir ris starts directly infront of the entrance for the red line service line.
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DTL sure damn crowded.
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this professor so slow i already say b4 Sg population will hit 10 million, dun believe. next, it may be 30 millon
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I say 10billion
December 1st, 2013 | 
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