Research Committee

Tang Hang Wu is the Lee Kong Chian Professor at the Yong Pung How School of Law and Associate Provost (Research Governance and Administration), Singapore Management University. His research interests include land law, restitution, equity, trusts, wealth management, charity and non-profit law. Hang Wu has published widely and his work has been relied over a hundred times by courts in Singapore and the Commonwealth. He is frequently instructed as counsel, expert witness and consultant to legal teams in Singapore, Malaysia and beyond, and is widely recognised for his strategic insights to complex property and trust disputes. In recognition of his expertise, Hang Wu was made an overseas member of the Chancery Bar Association of England and Wales, a country correspondent of Trusts and Trustees, a member of the Board of Advisors of the International Charity Law Network and a Professorial Fellow at the Attorney General’s Chambers Academy.


 

Jared Nai is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources (OBHR) at Lee Kong Chian School of Business in Singapore Management University (SMU). Since joining in January 2017, he has served as the instructor and course coordinator for Human Capital Management. He also teaches Negotiations and Organizational Behavior courses across undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive levels. Jared is the Academic Advisor for the OBHR Major for undergraduates, and the ResWORK fellow of the Resilient Workforces Institute at SMU.

He is also an active management scholar and has published in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Academy of Management Journal. His research is focused on workplace collaboration, entrepreneurship, and organizational decision making. Commentaries on his research articles have been featured in a policy document by the Council of Europe, an international non-government organization, in the New York Times bestseller book “Humankind: A Hopeful History” by Rutger Bregman, and other media outlets like the Harvard Business Review Blog and The Straits Times. He has contributed numerous commentaries on HR and organizational issues to media outlets like the Straits Times, Channel News Asia, and The Business Times. His current research interests include the impact of AI on employees’ and employers’ performance and expectations.

Jared received his Ph.D in Management and Organizations from the National University of Singapore Business School, which was also where he obtained his Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration (Honors) in Management and Finance.