Koh Buck Song

Koh Buck Song

Koh Buck Song is a writer and communications consultant in Singapore.

He has taught a Master in Public Management course in leadership as an Adjunct Associate Professor of leadership at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He is an alumnus of the University of Cambridge and the University of London in the United Kingdom, and of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the USA, where he was a Mason Fellow.

He has spoken at international conferences including the 10th Harvard International Development Conference at the Kennedy School, Harvard, in 2004, and at MIT and the University of Chicago in the USA, as well as at seminars at the National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University, Institute of Policy Studies, International Enterprise Singapore, Economic Development Board Society, Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore Insurance Institute and Southeast Asia Geography Association.

He is the author and editor of 15 books. His non-fiction books include:
* "Southeast Asian Art: A New Spirit" (1997)
* "Toa Payoh: Our Kind Of Neighbourhood" (2000)
* "Heart Work: Stories Of How The Economic Development Board Steered The Singapore Economy From 1961 Into The 21st Century" (2002)
* "How Not To Make Money: Inside Stories From Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department" (2005).

His four books of poetry are:
* "A Brief History Of Toa Payoh And Other Poems" (1992)
* "The Worth Of Wonder" (2001)
* "The Ocean Of Ambition" (2003)
* "Heartlands: Home and Nation in the Art of Ong Kim Seng" (2008).

The anthologies he has edited include:
* "Singapore: Places, Poems, Paintings" (1993)
* "From Boys To Men: A Literary Anthology Of National Service In Singapore" (2002).

In 1992, he was poet-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh under the Singapore-Scotland Cultural Exchange programme. He has also represented Singapore at literary conferences at Cambridge and Manila, as well as at the Asia-Europe Young Leaders Symposium in Seoul, Korea (1999) and at the Asia-Europe Young Entrepreneurs Forum in Berlin, Germany (1999).

He was with "The Straits Times" from 1988 to 1999, where he was literary editor, columnist, political supervisor and commentator, arts and features supervisor, and assistant editor of a weekly world affairs section.

He then worked for the Singapore Economic Development Board from 1999-2005 in strategic planning and marketing & corporate communications.

He now works as Campaign Strategist for the international communications consultancy Hill & Knowlton.


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