Leong Chan-Hoong, PhD, is Senior Fellow and Head of Social Cohesion Research Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. Prior to this, he has held senior positions in various academic institutions and most recently in a global policy advisory firm (Head of Policy Practice, Verian Group). Chan-Hoong sits on the International Advisory Board at the Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research, in Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He read a PhD in Psychology (Wellington), and M.Sc.’s on Statistics and Applied Geographic Information Systems (NUS). His research focuses on diversity and inclusion, inter-racial relations, national narratives, and human-environment interactions.
Chan-Hoong is a Fellow and elected board member (2019-2023) of the International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR), where he chairs the Rae and Dan Landis Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award Committee (2019 – present). He has served as Consulting Editor for the International Journal of Intercultural Relations (IJIR 2013-15) and Asian Journal of Social Psychology (2018 – now), and Guest Editor for the IJIR 2013 and 2019 Special Issues “Multiculturalism: Beyond Ethnocultural Diversity & Contestations” and “Viewing intercultural adaptation & social inclusion through constructs of national identity“, respectively. According to a bibliometric analysis published by IJIR in May 2023, Chan-Hoong is listed as one of the most prolific scholars for research in intercultural relations and acculturation (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101785).
He is a Council member to the National Integration Council at the Ministry of Culture, Community, and Youth, and the Community Advisory Panel at the Ministry of National Development. He is also the Singapore National Representative for the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), where he chairs the Janet A Harkness Best Paper Award committee.
