Professor Paul Teng

Professor Paul Teng is Dean and Managing Director, NIE International Pte. Ltd., and Adjunct Senior Fellow, Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, RSIS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also concurrently Chair, International Service for the Acquisition of Agribiotech Applications (ISAAA), Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University, Australia, and Senior Fellow, Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture, Philippines. His expertise is in food security, commercialization and biosafety of crop biotechnology, agritechnology innovations and bio-entrepreneurship, and sustainable development. Currently he works on urban high-technology enabled farming and "plant factories". He has over thirty years of experience from positions in international organizations (the International Rice Research Institute, Worldfish Centre), U.S. universities (University of Minnesota, University of Hawaii) and the private sector. Prof. Teng has won numerous awards for his work such as the Eriksson Prize in Plant Pathology (Royal Swedish Academy of Science), an Honorary Doctor of Science (from Murdoch University, Australia).