Thinesh Kumar

Experience

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  YouthfulCities

  Jun 2014 - Dec 2014

  Urban Decoder
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  Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

  May 2015 - Jul 2015

  Internship
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  Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

  Jan 2016 - Apr 2016

  Research Assistant

  Assisted with formulating research projects and drawing up research methodologies, conducting primary and secondary research on public policy matters. Research areas include: Water resource management, ABC Waters, agriculture and water use.

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  Centre for Liveable Cities

  May 2016 - Feb 2019

  Manager

  Research topics: The ABC Waters programme, blue-green infrastructure, Singapore’s hawker centres and Singapore’s food security. Conducted public policy research focusing on issues of urban development and liveability; working with public agencies and stakeholders to develop new, cutting edge polices for future development, development of capability development programmes and technical workshops for local and international participants, involvement in centre’s advisory partnership with developing cities (Amaravati and Yangon) and management & content curation for centre’s social media pages and publication platforms. Show less

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  Singapore Food Agency

  Mar 2019 - Nov 2021

  Policy Manager

  Manager in the Food Supplies Resilience Division and part of the policy formulation and planning team overseeing the implementation of Singapore’s food security policies. Developing, implementing and communicating policies and plans to transform local farming sector, inter-team collaboration to collate research for policies and implementation of strategies, project management of projects.

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  Centre for Liveable Cities

  Dec 2021 - Jul 2024

  Research Manager

  Manager in the Centre for Liveable Cities overseeing policy research. Developing and carrying out research on sustainable food systems with a focus on community resilience and community farming in marginal spaces. Developing a primary research study examining community farming models in Singapore.

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  Energy Market Authority (EMA)

  Jul 2024 - now

  Principal Analyst

  Principal Analyst in the Policy & Planning Division overseeing the development and implementation of Singapore’s energy and energy-adjacent policies (i.e. supporting climate and carbon policies to enable the green transition of the energy sector).