Kevin Ong

Political Secretary (Singapore Embassy in Seoul) @ Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Singapore

About

Kevin is the Political Secretary at the Singapore Embassy in Seoul. Prior to this, he was at the Special Projects branch of the Southeast Asia Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore. He read Double Majors in Economics and Mathematics at the National University of Singapore. He has a strong quantitative background and is familiar with data analytics and economic modelling. He specialised in Applied and Policy Economics and graduated with Honours.

Country

City

Singapore

Industry

Public Policy

Skill

Diplomacy, Econometrics, Statistical Data Analysis, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Economics, Quantitative Analytics, Stata, R, Economic Modeling, HTML, Microsoft Excel, LaTeX, Data Analysis, Macroeconomics, Statistical Modeling, Time Series Analysis, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Quantitative Models, Pure Mathematics

Experience

Political Secretary (Singapore Embassy in Seoul)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Singapore

2023-8 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Seoul, South Korea

Special Projects, Southeast Asia I Directorate

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Singapore

2021-4 - 2023-8 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Singapore

Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa Directorate

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Singapore

2019-9 - 2021-4 · 1 yr 8 mos

Singapore

Mathematics Department

Raffles Institution

2015-1 - 2015-6 · 6 mos

Singapore

Education

National University of Singapore

Double Majors in Economics and Mathematics

2015 - 2019 · 4 yrs

Specialisation in Applied and Policy Economics. Selected courses include Public Finance, Behavioural Public Policy, Financial Market Microstructure, Applied Econometrics, and Linear Algebra.

SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Economics

2018 - 2018

Bilateral International Student Exchange Programme. Selected courses included International Finance, Behavioural Economics, Probability Theory, and Mathematical Models of Risk.