Professor Paul Cheung is currently the Director of the Asia Competitiveness Institute of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He was the Director of Singapore’s then Population Planning Unit, responsible for charting Singapore’s population Policy (1986-1994). Professor Cheung was the Chief Statistician of Singapore from 1991 to 2004 and the Chief Statistician of the United Nations (2004-2012). He is currently on the National Statistical Expert Advisory Committee of the China National Bureau of Statistics. He is a consultant to several Asian countries on advancing national data ecosystems and policy analytics.