Devadas Krishnadas

Devadas Krishnadas is an entrepreneur, author, and socio-political commentator.

Education

Devadas graduated from the University of Sydney in Australia and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University in the United States. He also studied in England at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.

Career

Devadas Krishnadas has extensive experience in both the public and the private sector. In addition to being the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Future-Moves Group, a foresight-driven management consultancy with an international and multi-sectoral practice,[1] Devadas is also a MAS approved Independent Director of PartnerRe Asia Pte. Ltd. a reinsurance firm.

Devadas previously served in the Singapore government as a senior officer in the Singapore Police Force (SPF), Strategist with the then Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS), and Deputy Director of Fiscal Policy[2] with the Ministry of Finance (MoF).[3]

Writings

Devadas has written on a variety of social, economic and political issues in Singapore.[4] His views have been cited by various media both in Singapore and internationally, including TODAY,[5] The Straits Times,[6] Yahoo! News,[7] BBC News,[8] Channel News Asia,[9] The Wall Street Journal and CNBC. In addition to his writings, Devadas has also been frequently invited to serve as a speaker or panelist on forums covering a broad range of socio-economical issues.[10] [11][12]

Devadas is the author of Sensing Singapore, a compilation of articles about various issues facing Singapore.[13][14] A foreword for the book was written by Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Law, K. Shanmugam.[15]

Devadas' second book on strategy, titled FUSE: Foresight-driven Understanding, Strategy & Execution, was released in August 2015.

Devadas' third book, "The Seduction of the Simple : Insights into Singapore's Future Directions" was released in September 2016. In this collection of commentaries about Singapore written between 2014 and 2016, Devadas helps to make sense of the pivotal events in Singapore during this period and offers practical solutions to the challenges that lay ahead.[16]

gollark: This might be fixable if you have some kind of zero-knowledge voting thing and/or ways for smaller groups of people to decide to produce stuff.
gollark: If you require everyone/a majority to say "yes, let us make the thing" publicly, then you probably won't get any of the thing - if you say "yes, let us make the thing" then someone will probably go "wow, you are a bad/shameful person for supporting the thing".
gollark: Say most/many people like a thing, but the unfathomable mechanisms of culture™ have decided that it's bad/shameful/whatever. In our society, as long as it isn't something which a plurality of people *really* dislike, you can probably get it anyway since you don't need everyone's buy-in. And over time the thing might become more widely accepted by unfathomable mechanisms of culture™.
gollark: I also think that if you decide what to produce via social things instead of the current financial mechanisms, you would probably have less innovation (if you have a cool new thing™, you have to convince a lot of people it's a good idea, rather than just convincing a few specialized people that it's good enough to get some investment) and could get stuck in weird signalling loops.
gollark: So it's possible to be somewhat insulated from whatever bizarre trends are sweeping things.

References
  1. "Rwanda: Singaporean Experts Visit to Help With Devt of Secondary Cities" Archived 2016-05-31 at the Wayback Machine. All Africa, Emmanuel Ntirenganya.
  2. "Financing the future of Singapore". IPS Commons. Archived from the original on 2016-10-03. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  3. "Why Singapore can't ease back on economic growth focus". Yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  4. "Police report filed over ex-NMP Calvin Cheng’s ‘killing children’ remarks" Archived 2016-05-26 at the Wayback Machine. ChannelNewsAsia, Stacey Lim, 16 Dec 2015
  5. "Mr Lee's Death Should Not Cause S'pore to Lose Confidence" Archived 2018-02-05 at the Wayback Machine. TODAY Online, April 2015.
  6. "How Singapore can secure its economic future" Archived 2016-05-13 at the Wayback Machine. The Straits Times, Chia Yan Min Sep 27, 2015.
  7. "The Future of Work Calls for Policy Change in Singapore" Archived 2014-03-11 at the Wayback Machine. Yahoo! News, Mar 2014.
  8. "Lee Kuan Yew: Which way now for Singapore?" Archived 2018-07-16 at the Wayback Machine. By Tessa Wong BBC News, Singapore 28 March 2015
  9. "Bukit Batok By-Election was Among Costliest SMC Contests to Date" Archived 2017-01-10 at the Wayback Machine. Channel News Asia, Jun 2016.
  10. "Do we need gender quotas to increase female leadership in companies? | The Peak Singapore - Your Guide to The Finer Things in Life". The Peak Singapore - Your Guide to The Finer Things in Life. 2017-06-01. Archived from the original on 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  11. "YSA organises 'Sikh Voices Conference' in Singapore". www.connectedtoindia.com. Archived from the original on 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  12. "Moving Forward, Together: Yayasan Mendaki Post-Budget 2017 Policy Forum" (PDF). Yayasan Mendaki. 8 March 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  13. "Review of Sensing Singapore". New Mandala. Archived from the original on 2014-08-04. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
  14. "Mothership Q&A: A glimpse of author-consultant Devadas Krishnadas | Mothership.SG". mothership.sg. Archived from the original on 2015-09-12. Retrieved 2015-08-28.
  15. "Sensing Singapore: Reflections In A Time Of Change" Archived 2016-06-04 at the Wayback Machine. NPTribune, August 14, 2014 by Nur Ardillah
  16. hermes (2016-11-27). "Shaken and stirred". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
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