Dr. Vincent Chung Jie Lun

Biography

Vincent's PhD research centers on exploring virtual environments and virtual reality applications for stated preference methods in subjective well-being valuation, with a focus on mitigating the inherent challenges associated with these research methodologies. His aim is to integrate virtual environments and virtual reality into a stated preference/subjective well-being framework to create genuine, captivating scenarios for environmental valuation. This approach seeks to reduce hypothetical bias and elevate the accuracy of findings. Before embarking on his doctoral journey, Vincent served as a Senior Military Intelligence Officer, where he was responsible for conducting strategic intelligence analysis and providing expert advice and recommendations to senior civilian and military leadership. At the intelligence office, he led teams across multiple ministries in policy formulation and spearheaded research initiatives that directed political and military risk analyses, ultimately shaping national-level defense policies. Vincent holds an MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change from the London School of Economics and a BA in Economics from the University of Manchester. He has received an LSE PhD Studentship for Data Science and various scholarships including the Singapore Armed Forces Postgraduate Scholarship and the Singapore Armed Forces Academic Scholarship.

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