Dr S.T. Lee Fellowship
About Dr S.T. Lee:
Lee Seng Tee
Lee Seng Tee's extraordinary record of philanthropy and support for scholarship spans several decades. Dr Lee has established distinguished lecture series at academic institutions throughout the world. The topics include: humanities, at The University of Pennsylvania; military history, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; public policy at Cambridge University; politics and government at All Souls College, Oxford; notable periods and figures in the history of the College at Oriel College, Oxford; and also humanities at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also recently funded the S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance at the National University of Singapore.
Victoria University of Wellington is grateful to Dr Lee for his support of the University, not only in his endowment for the S.T. Lee Visiting Fellowship in the University's Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation, but also for the endowment for the S.T. Lee Lecture in Antarctic Studies, endowment of the Young Scientist Exchange programme with the International Arctic Research Centre at the University of Alaska (Fairbanks), the S.T. Lee Library at the Antarctic Research Centre, and the endowed S.T. Lee Visiting Fellowship in Economics at the University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City.
Dr S.T. Lee Fellowship
This Fellowship is available annually and is designed to support a visiting researcher in working on a project or projects of interest to ISCR. Applications are particularly welcome from researchers in economics, finance or law, but candidates from other disciplines are also encouraged to apply.
The expected Fellowship tenure will be one to three months duration, although longer stays may be possible. During that time, the Fellow will undertake research and contribute to the activities of ISCR.
The Fellowship covers all reasonable expenses up to a maximum of NZD20,000.
Funding of the ST Lee Fellowship is made possible by the generosity of Singapore businessman and philanthropist Dr. Lee Seng Tee.
Fellowship holders to date, and those currently scheduled, are:
2007 Anthony Heyes (University of London) - Environmental Economics
research topic(s):
- the design of 'good' regulatory mandates
- incentives for retrospection in regulation
2007 Eugenio Miravete (University of Texas)
- Examination of potentially anticompetitive effects of multi product pricing as a result of mergers of public utility companies.
2008 Donald Kenkel (Cornell University) - Health Economics
- Focus on direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceutical products
2009 Michael Knoll (University of Pennsylvania) - deferred
2010 Kyle Stiegert (University of Wisconsin - Madison) - Agricultural and Applied Economics
- Biotech seed markets - growing acceptance of biotech foods and fibers and the important role of large and powerful agribusinesses in shaping both the product and pricing landscape for all biotech seeds worldwide
2011 Bert Sadowski - deferred (2012)
2012 Bert Sadowski (TUE - Eindhoven University of Technology) - Regulation, Innovation and Technological Change