About us

Volunteer Anthropologist: Chan Chow Wah

Chan is a Fellow of The Royal Anthropological Institute, UK, Member of the American Anthropological Association and has a Masters in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics (LSE), UK. His interests include consumption, cross cultural marketing, Chinese cultural studies, relationship between religion and society and issues of social identity and modernity.

Chan is a Sales and Marketing professional with experience in Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Asia Pacific. Currently, he is a manager heading the export division of a European MNC with Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore.

Seminars and workshops

'Sculpting Compassion', Singapore

'River of Time', Beirut, Lebanon

'Tea Talk', London, UK

'Food Talk, Durham, USA

'Time Consuming', Singapore

VIP guest speaker, World Genesis Foundation, UNSECO, Romania

Academic background and professional membership

        Masters in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics (LSE), UK  

   Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow 2006, Singapore

        Fellow, The Royal Anthropological Institute, UK

     Member , American Anthropological Association, USA

    Member, International Oral History Association

Publications

"Storm in Shuang Lin"; biblioasia, National Library Board, Singapore, Vol 3, Issue 1, April 2007, Pages 4 to 9

Chan can be contacted at: ccw@alumi.lse.ac.uk

Photographers:

Sam Bishop, Washington DC, USA

Sam produced the photo that was used as a backdrop for Cultural Compass posters.

The posters are distributed to hotels, hostels, museum and cultural institutions.

Sam can be contacted at: Bishop_photo@yahoo.com

Mr. Lim Shao Bin

Born in Singapore in 1957 of Hakka origin, Mr. Lin graduated from Keio University, Japan in 1985. He specialises in large IT project management and consulting. He is currently working for a Japanese MNC as a Director as well as Pan-Asia representative for information systems management. He has been serving the Japan Cultural Society, Singapore as their Vice President since 1996. He is the editor of Images of Singapore from the Japanese Perspective (1868-1941).

CC Koh, Malaysia

Walking down the city, I see life, through the lens. As an engineer, I work among numbers and formulas. Only through photography, I could share my passion of life with audience. Though it¡¯s only a thousand more days I live with photography, it is to be sure, a part of my life. Even if I am still far away to be called professional, it has been already a bound between reality and dream; a tie, between the audience and I. Living in topsy-turvy world, I am glad my camera is still in my hand.

CC Koh can be contacted at: cc_koh@yahoo.com 

Nuno Murias, Portugual

Portuguese photographer based in Singapore.

Nuno can be contacted at: nunomurias@gmail.com

If Cultural Compass programs appeals to you, you may like to consider joining or contributing your expertise or knowledge.

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