The Front Row Podcast
Front Row Interviews with experts to expand your mental map of the world. Made in Singapore. For Asia and the World.
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#95- Professor Wang Gungwu : How China and America Emerged As Superpowers (opens the original)
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Thank you for checking out The Front Row Podcast and my interview with Professor Wang Gungwu. Wang Gungwu is an internationally renowned historian known for his scholarship on the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, as well as the history and civilisation of China and Southeast Asia. Across his illustrious academic career, Professor Wang has held eminent appointments at institutions around the world. He was Professor of History at the University of Malaya (1963–68), Professor at the Australian N
#94- Prof Daniel Markovits on Why Meritocracy Is Broken (opens the original)
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Thank you for checking out The Front Row Podcast and my interview with Professor Daniel Markovits. This is the 94th episode of The Front Row Podcast. Daniel Markovits is the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the founding director of Yale's Center for the Study of Private Law. He is the author of The Meritocracy Trap (2019), which argues that meritocracy, the system meant to replace inherited privilege with earned advantage, has become the main mechanism by which wealth and
#93-Former UK Secretary of State, Vince Cable On Why The West Needs To Engage With China and India Rationally (opens the original)
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Sir Vince Cable is one of Britain's most experienced observers of Asia's rise, having tracked China and India for over three decades from inside both business and government. As Chief Economist at Shell in the 1990s, he built the scenario work that helped shift one of the world's largest companies towards serious investment in China and India — at a time when both were regarded internally as too risky to touch. He later served as the UK's Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills fr
#92 -Professor Kumar Ramakrishna Explains The Rise Of Self-Radicalization (opens the original)
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Thank you for checking out my episode with Prof Kumar Ramakrishna. This episode is brought to you in partnership with the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies. For more information on the school and its programmes see here - https://rsis.edu.sg/publications/rsis-publications/annual-reviews/Professor Kumar Ramakrishna is one of Southeast Asia's foremost authorities on terrorism, extremism, and national security. He is Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nan
#91- Chandran Nair - Southeast Asia's Wake-Up Call Has Arrived - (opens the original)
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Chandran Nair is the founder and CEO of the Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT), an independent pan-Asian think tank based in Hong Kong committed to understanding the dynamic relationship between business, society, and the state, and to reshaping the rules of global capitalism. A Malaysian with a background in chemical engineering and biochemistry, he spent the first decades of his career in sustainability, rising to become chairman of Environmental Resources Management (ERM) for Asia Pacific,
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