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Ms Kit Boey CHOW

Past ACCFs

Ms Kit Boey CHOW

Senior Fellow, Intellectual Property Academy, Singapore

Chow Kit Boey is formerly an associate professor in the Department of Business Policy, NUS Business School. She holds an M Sc (Econs) from Utah State University and upon graduation was engaged as a research fellow, conducting public policy research at the Economic Research Centre, University of Singapore. After a two-year attachment with UN ESCAP, she returned to NUS and became the first director of CBRD (Centre for Business Research & Development) in 1990-2002 and of NUS Consulting in 2002-2005.

Her research interests are in input-output analysis, tourism, business cycles and forecasting. She compiled a 1972 Singapore I-O table, and has been involved in an international I-O project initiated by Japan's IDE-JETRO. She was instrumental in launching a quarterly business survey with The Business Times to track Singapore business cycles. The survey is in its eleventh year.

Her research in the field of intellectual property includes economics of the arts, product and visual communication design activities in Singapore, economic contribution of copyright-based industries in Singapore, feasibility survey of a Singapore utility patent system, and creativity index.

Kit Boey has co-ordinated over 20 major projects, prepared some 100 consultancy reports and published 40 papers in journals or conference proceedings. She has been a consultant to international organizations (e.g. the World Bank, UNDP, ILO, UNCTAD), Singapore government agencies (e.g. Ministry of Trade & Industry, Maritime & Port Authority, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore Tourism Board, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Economic Development Board, National Youth Council), and companies (e.g. IBM, Citibank, Deloitte & Touche, Shell, Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd, Reed Exhibitions, OCBC, Singapore Pools).

Currently, Kit Boey is a senior fellow of the IP Academy (Singapore), project director of the BT-UniSIM Business Climate Survey, country consultant of IDE-JETRO, and director of Business Research Consultants.