Associate Professor 

Associate Professor Ho Kong Weng is Associate Professor of Economics at the Singapore Management University (SMU). His research areas include meritocracy and inequality, career opportunities and subjective well-being, and economic-social issues related to the Singapore society. He has served as principal investigator or research advisor to the Ministry of Social and Family Development, National Youth Council, Strategic Group in the Prime Minister’s Office, and the National Trades Union Congress. He teaches Macroeconomics of Income Distribution, and an experiential course Family and the Society. He has published on topics related to growth, inequality, happiness of youths, and challenges to social mobility in Singapore