Advisory Board

Professor Cheung served as the Director of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Secretariat of the UN Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) for almost 9 years, and had received several awards: The Von Neumann-Spallart Medal awarded by the International Institute of Statistics (1999); The Public Administration Medal (Gold) ‘Pingat Pentadbiran Awam’ awarded by the President of the Republic of Singapore (2001); The Honorary Doctorate Degree by the National University of Mongolia (2008); Senior Advisor on Statistics, the Government of China, the UN21 Award by the UN Secretary General (2010), and the Royal Order of Sahametrei (Grand Officer) by the Government of Cambodia (2012).

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Professor Cheung joined the National University of Singapore in 2013, and is now a professor of social policy and analytics. He is currently senior advisors to the statistical offices in China, Myanmar, Oman, and Abu Dhabi, and is also the Chair of the International Steering Committee on Global Mapping.