Guest of honour   

 

Associate professor Elvin

 

Mr. Elvin Lim is the Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore, and the Deputy head of the department of political science, NUS. 

 

Mr. Elvin Lim is the author of The Lovers' Quarrel: The Two Foundings & American Political Development (OUP, 2014) and The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush (OUP, 2008). 

 

 

His research has been cited in Bloomberg, The Boston Globe, Forbes, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, NPR, National Journal, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The San Francisco Examiner, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, and other venues. 

 

 

He read for a B.A. (First Class) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford, where he was Scholar at Christ Church and was awarded the Sara Norton Thesis Prize. There, he additionally completed his D. Phil in Politics. 

 

 

He was awarded the Presidency Research Fellowship and Founders' Award of the Presidency and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and NUS's Annual Teaching Excellence Award in 2016.