Sreeja Nair

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I am an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

I study how governments learn and adapt to uncertainty in policymaking. My research examines policy experimentation in particular- from pilots to experimental mindsets- and its role in policy learning and informing decisions in domains experiencing rapid change and uncertainty, such as climate change, energy transitions, and digital transformations. I am the author of Rethinking Policy Piloting (Cambridge University Press, 2021) which examines the design of policy pilots under conditions of environmental risk and uncertainty.

The landscape of policy education is also evolving, and I examine this in my co-edited book Emerging Pedagogies for Policy Education: insights from Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) (winner of the NASPAA Outstanding Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Book Award 2024).

I serve as an Associate Editor for the Australian Journal of Public Administration and Policy Design and Practice and am part of the Editorial Board of Teaching Public Administration. I hold a PhD in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, MA in Climate and Society from Columbia University and an M.Sc. in Environmental Studies from TERI School of Advanced Studies.