J.J. Woo is a public policy researcher and consultant. His professional appointments have included Assistant Professor and Programme Leader at the Education University of Hong Kong, Assistant Professor and Community Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Rajawali Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design. Dr. Woo received his PhD from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and holds an MSc in International Political Economy from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.