Aaron Maniam is a Singaporean civil servant, having served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Centre for Strategic Futures, Civil Service College and Ministry of Trade and Industry. Currently
Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Communications and Information, and Chief, Global
Positioning Strategy, he oversees digital economics, digital literacy and access, and international
digital partnerships. He was educated at Oxford and Yale. His PhD, from Oxford’s Blavatnik School
of Government, involved a comparative study of digital government projects in Estonia, New
Zealand and Singapore. In his free time, he writes poetry, facilitates inter-religious dialogues, and
teaches at the National University of Singapore's Scholars Programme. He is a Young Global
Leader of the World Economic Forum, an Asia 21 Young Leader of the Asia Society, and a Fellow
of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.