Dr. Michael QUAH Cheng-Guan has just arrived in Singapore from the US to assume the positions of Principal Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute and Executive Advisor at the NUS Enterprise Centre, both at the National University of Singapore.

Most of his career was spent in the US, where for 20 years he worked in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. in R&D, business development and management (with a short stint as an expatriate in Japan and Singapore.) At DuPont, he worked, among other assignments, with the perfluorinated ion-exchange polymer, NAFION*, the pre-eminent membrane in PEM fuel cells.

Following his DuPont career, he worked in technology management roles in two small companies involved with separations media and in alternative/renewable energy, two non-profit organizations also connected to energy/environment/sustainability, and in the US Army Communications and Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC) within the Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM.) Before his professional career, Dr. Quah received his BA (magna) in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and the following degrees (M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.