Towards Strategic Pragmatism in Foreign Policy: Cases of United States of America, China and Singapore

About Charles Chao Rong Phua

Dr Charles Chao Rong PHUA now runs Solaris Strategies Singapore (and Solaris Consortium of Management Consultancies) dedicated to pragmatically solving complex problems supporting governments corporates and underserved nonprofits at sector and enterprise levels after two decades in government where he functioned as head research trainer in defence and chief external affairs supporting cities and infrastructural diplomacy. Charles also presides over Association for Public Affairs (Singapore) spearheading active citizenry in policymaking and serving as chief judge for Singapore Model Cabinet and Parliament organised by government. He is an internationally certified management consultant and agile certified practitioner with doctorate in public policy degrees in international relations security management education accounting law and completed executive education in strategy innovation entrepreneurship sustainability marketing from leading business schools: Harvard MIT Stanford Wharton Kellogg Berkeley Babson INSEAD Cambridge Oxford London Business School. He applies pragmatism in his adjunct teaching/coaching of applied problem-solving practicums in five universities/colleges in Singapore (National University of Singapore Nanyang Technological University Singapore Management University Civil Service College Singapore) and Switzerland (University of St Gallen) and has coedited Governing Cities: Asias Urban Transformation (Routledge). A Fulbright fellow he was formerly resident fellow at Brookings Institution Columbia and Johns Hopkins universities and non-resident senior fellow at East-West Institute (New York). He currently serves as series editor for Routledge series for strategy wisdom and skills with a commitment to codify practitioner+academic wisdom in applied and interdisciplinary fields.