The Seduction of the Simple ─ Insights on Singapore's Future Directions

In this book, the author

• Provides and analysis on a wide range of issues facing Singapore
• Maps out possible challenges Singapore might face
• Suggest practical solution to addressing potential problems
• Gives alternative and unconventional perspectives of identifying multifaceted problems in a complex world
• Forewarns about the desire to adopt simplistic analysis for complex problems
• Stimulates thoughts and challenges readers to evoke change at various levels

With endorsements from

• Prof Tommy Koh,Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
• HE Guillaume Karvaruganda, High Commissioner of Rwanda to Singapore;
• Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, Resident Representative, UN Development Programme Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei;
• Kirpal Singh, Associate Prof of English Literature, SMU

Devadas Krishnadas the founder and CEO of Future-Moves Group, Southeast Asia's first foresight-driven strategic consultancy. He has an international reputation for thought leadership on strategy, foresight, and public and economic policy. He is the author of Sensing Singapore (2014), an anthology of his public commentaries on Singapore policy, and FUSE (2015), a landmark book on foresight-driven strategy. Prior to founding Future-Moves Group, Devadas played a pivotal role in fiscal and social policy in Singapore during his time in the public service.