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After graduating from the London School of Economics with a law degree and later called to the Bar in both the United Kingdom and Malaysia, Ong Chin Huat studied History of Art at the British Institute of Florence in Italy. Deciding to pursue a career in journalism, he became the first Chinese person to work at the Hong Kong Tatler as the Social Editor. After a stint as a columnist at the South China Morning Post, he started his own PR Consultancy specialising in fashion and luxury goods. He has been a judge for the Miss Asia Pageant in Hong Kong, Miss Charm de Chine in Shanghai and Mrs.International Global Grand Final in Kuala Lumpur. Currently, he is a freelance writer, fashion stylist and TV Host and has contributed to The Star, Life Inspired, Luxurious Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Design Anthology, Elle and Conde Nast Traveller among others. He hosted a TV Show called ‘Hong Kong High Life’ on ATV Hong Kong as well as a talk show named ‘Driven’ on TheStarTV.com. Voted as one of Hong Kong’s Best Dressed Personalities by the Hong Kong Fashion Designer’s Association, he has met and interviewed everyone from movie stars and business tycoons to politicians and world-class athletes.

You can follow him on Instagram at @chinhuat_ong

Allison Heiliczer is an American psychotherapist who has been living in Asia for over a decade. She is the founder of Rethink the Couch and works with adult individuals and couples in Singapore and around the world. Heiliczer was the former Head of Corporate Psychology at OT&P’s clinics in Hong Kong.
While the hundreds of individuals and couples she has supported in clinical and private practice settings face various challenges, the common thread is they are navigating relationship and work issues.
She graduated summa cum laude from New York University (NYU) with a Bachelor of Science, a master’s also from NYU, and a second Master’s in Counselling from Monash University (Australia). Heiliczer is the first therapist in Asia to be certified in Relational Life Therapy (RLT), a transformative form of couple’s therapy, pioneered by New York Times bestselling author
Terry Real. In addition, she is an ICF-certified coach and has offered extensive coach trainings with executives and at leading multinational corporations.

Dr. Sumit Agarwal

Dr. Agarwal is the Low Tuck Kwong Professor at the School of Business and Professor in the departments of Economics, Finance and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore. Previously, he held positions as a Professor of Finance at Georgetown University, senior financial economist in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a senior vice president and credit risk management executive in the Small Business Risk Solutions Group of Bank of America.

Dr. Agarwal’s research interests include issues relating to financial institutions, household finance, behavioral finance, international finance, real estate markets, urban economics and capital markets. He has published over eighty research articles in journals like the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking among others. Additionally, he has co-written a book titled Kiasunomics and co-edited a collected volume on Household Credit Usage: Personal Debt and Mortgages.

He is the co-editor of Real Estate Economics and an association editor at Management Science and Journal of Financial Services Research. He writes regular op-ed’s in the Straits Times and Forbes and is featured on various media outlets like the BBC, CNBC, and Fox on issues relating to finance, banking, and real estate markets. Sumit’s research is widely cited in leading newspapers and magazines like the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, and the U.S Presidents Report to Congress. He also runs a blog on household financial decision making called Smart Finance.
Dr. Agarwal has won various prestigious awards like the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Outstanding Researcher Award at the National University of Singapore, the Paul Samuelson TIAA-CREF certificate of excellence, the Terker Family Prizes in Investment Research Award from the Wharton School of Business, the Glucksman Institute Research Award from New York University and grants from the Russell Sage Foundation and the NBER/Sloan Foundation.

Dr. Agarwal has been invited to present his research at many renowned universities such Columbia University, Northwestern University, University of California Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maryland, as well as institutions and central banks namely the IMF, World Bank, European Central Bank, European Union, Dutch Central Bank, Riksbank, OCC, and the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. He has consulted with the World Bank, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, OCC, the Reserve Bank of India and Bank of America.

He has also served as an adjunct professor and a scholar at the finance department at George Washington University, DePaul University, the Indian School of Business, HKUST, BIS and the World Bank. Agarwal received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Dr. Long Wang

Dr. Wang is an assistant professor in the School of Economics at the Fudan University. His research interests lie in urban economics?, environmental economics, and Chinese economy. Dr. Wang received a Ph.D. in Real Estate from the National University of Singapore in 2018. He received a M.A in Economics in 2013, and a B.Sc. in Mathematics in 2010 from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. He has published in leading academic journals such as The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, and Journal of Real Estate Research. He is the Associate Editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics.

Dr. Yang Yang

Dr. Yang is an Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on urban economics, real estate, and sustainability. She holds a Ph.D. in Real Estate from the National University of Singapore (2018), an M.Sc. in Urban Land Economics (2014), and a B.Comm. with Honours in Finance and Real Estate (2012) from the University of British Columbia. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, such as The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Energy Economics.

Dr. Yang is the principal investigator of several Hong Kong GRC projects and the National Natural Science Foundation of China’s Young Scientists Fund. She is the Associate Editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics, an Academic Editor for PLOS One, and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Real Estate Literature.

Apinuch Petcharapiracht (also known under the pen name ‘Moonscape’) is a Chinese-Thai writer who leads a peaceful life with her cat and dog in Phetchaburi, Thailand. Her dream is to see the marriage equality bill turn into an actual law, and allow her to legally marry her girlfriend at last. She wrote Juveniles and Other Stories based on her grim memories from her childhood that have been buried, unforgotten, for one and a half decades.

Her most recent work, Death and the Maiden, was published with Penguin Random House SEA.

Vidhya lives in Kuala Lumpur with her husband and their dog, Patchi. She completed her Business degree in Monash University Malaysia in 2014, and her Masters in Economics at University Malaya in 2016.

Thereafter, she worked as a corporate trainer and subsequently as a lecturer before discovering her true passion – writing. Now, she’s a freelance content writer and blogger working from home.

In her free time, she enjoys writing stories and poems, going on long walks with her dog, and café hopping. Frappes for Three is her debut novel, based in part on her own university experience.

Tay Guan Hin (or Guan as most people know him) is an internationally recognised creative thinker, with over 300 awards to his name. He is a global expert in digital engagement, innovation and the ideation technique of creative conflict.
Currently the Creative Chairman of BBDO Singapore, Guan has spent over 30 years contributing to global advertising networks including Saatchi & Saatchi, Wunderman Thompson and Leo Burnett. His expertise in solving complex business challenges has helped increase market share for blue-chip clients like Visa, Audi, Shell, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, P&G, HSBC and Unilever. He was the first Singaporean in Southeast Asia to serve as a Jury President at Cannes Lions and the first to preside over the prestigious Design & Art Direction London.
Known for his engaging speeches, Guan has been a global keynote speaker at various industry events, including TEDx, Spikes Asia and the One Show. He has also shared his insights with major international clients including the US Grain Council, Tencent, TikTok, Meta and Unilever. From 2022 to 2023, he was the President of the Asia Professional Speakers Association.
With a relentless dedication to innovation and nurturing future talent, Guan set up the first advertising student awards in Singapore. In 2019, was invited to be a Mentor for the One Show China Youth Creative Awards.
This is his first book.