CHNG, Nai Rui

Max Weber Fellow, 2009-2010

Affiliate Research Fellow in Human Rights  
School of Social and Political Sciences
University of Glasgow
Scotland 

Email Nai.Chng@eui.eu
  

  

 

 

 

 

Nai Rui Chng will complete his Ph.D. in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2009. ‘Even flow: Privatising water and mobilising power in the Philippines’ investigates the politics of privatisation and contentious collective action in the water sector, and local politics in the Philippines and the developing world.

At the LSE, he has also earned an M.Res. (merit) in Political Science (2006) and an M.Sc. (merit) in Political Sociology (2003). He received his B.A. (first class honours with distinction) in Politics from the University of York in 2000.

His research interests are contentious politics (social movements and civil society) and politics of regulation and development. At the EUI he will launch a new research project that builds upon his thesis, and will explore comparative forms of political alternatives that have emerged in the wake of neoliberal reforms worldwide.

He has published articles and book chapters on water privatisation, citizenship, development, social movements. At the LSE he has taught classes on democracy and democratisation.

Nai Rui Chng also has a background in advocacy and consultancy. He has worked for MPs in the Singapore Parliament and the British House of Commons. Previously active in Singaporean civil society on migrant worker issues and human rights, he has also conducted research for international development agencies and local NGOs in Indonesia, the Philippines and the United Kingdom.