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- Koh Buck Song is a writer and business consultant in Singapore. He is the author and editor of 17 books. His non-fiction books include: Brand Singapore: How Nation Branding Built Asia's Leading Global City (2011) How Not To Make Money: Inside Stories From Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department (2005) Heart Work: Stories Of How The Economic Development Board Steered The Singapore Economy From 1961 Into The 21st Century (2002) Creating A Difference: 10 Years Of Fighting White-Collar Crime (2009). Southeast Asian Art: A New Spirit (1997) Toa Payoh: Our Kind Of Neighbourhood (2000) 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). His works have been included in anthologies such as the following: Words For The 25th, Unipress (1990) New Voices In Southeast Asia, Solidarity, Manila, Philippines (1991) Rhythms: A Singaporean Millennial Anthology Of Poetry, National Arts Council. (2000) Writing Singapore: An Historical Anthology of Singapore Literature, NUS Press (2009) Reflecting On The Merlion: An Anthology Of Poems, National Arts Council (2009). Born in 1963, 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 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. Since then, he has worked as a consultant in communications strategy and corporate social responsibility. 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, and media studies as an Adjunct Faculty member at the Singapore Management University, School of Social Sciences. He was Deputy Chairman of the Censorship Review Committee 2009-10, and was a member of the Censorship Review Committees of 1991-92 and 2002-03. He is a Board member of the Media Development Authority, and has served previously as a Board member of the National Arts Council and as Chairman of the NAC's Drama Review Committee and the Publications Advisory Panel under the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts. 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 (UK) and Manila, in poetry readings at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA, as well as at Asia-Europe Foundation meetings such as the Asia-Europe Young Leaders Symposium in Seoul, Korea (1999) and at the Asia-Europe Young Entrepreneurs Forum in Berlin, Germany (1999). 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, Lasalle College of the Arts and Southeast Asia Geography Association.
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