He is presently an academic with the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University and is a Senior Fellow for Advanced AI at the Centre for Future Generations, a Brussels-based think tank.
[3] He graduated from Somerville College, Oxford, with double First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) in 2001.
[6] In 2008, he was posted to the Strategic Policy Office (SPO) at the Public Service Division to work on scenario planning and analysing long-term trends relevant to Singapore.
[8] In July 2011, Maniam was appointed Director of the Institute of Policy Development (later renamed the Institute of Public Sector Leadership) at the Civil Service College (CSC), and in 2012, he initiated the CSC Applied Simulation Training (CAST) Laboratory, an experiment to apply principles of “serious play” to training public officers to deal with complex environments.
[10] In 2003, Maniam won the First Prize for English poetry in the National Arts Council’s Golden Point Award.