Warren Fernandez is the Regional Director for Global Communications Strategy in Shell

Royal Dutch Shell

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’s Asia Pacific Hub. He was the Deputy Editor and also the Foreign Editor of The Straits Times

The Straits Times

The Straits Times is an English language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore currently owned by Singapore Press Holdings . It is the country's highest-selling paper, with a current daily circulation of nearly 400,000...

, and had been with the paper since 1990. Warren has written on political and social issues related to Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

 and the wider world.

Fernandez completed his secondary education at Hwa Chong Institution (College Section). Fernandez is a Politics, Philosophy and Economics graduate of Trinity College

Trinity College, Oxford

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, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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 and has a Master's Degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government

John F. Kennedy School of Government

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 at Harvard University

Harvard University

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. He was the first recipient of the Singapore Press Holdings

Singapore Press Holdings

Singapore Press Holdings Limited is a media organisation in Singapore with businesses in print, Internet and new media, television and radio, outdoor media, and property. SPH has over 4,000 employees, including a team of approximately 1,000 journalists, including correspondents operating around...

' Undergraduate Scholarship in 1987 and the first SPH Master's Scholarship holder in 1999.

Fernandez is also the author of several books – "Lee Kuan Yew: the man and his ideas", "Without Fear or Favour: 50 years of the Public Service Commission", "Thinking Allowed: politics, fear and change in Singapore", and most recently, 'Men for Others".

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