Youngho Chang

Dr Chang is an Associate Professor and Head, Business and Management Minors at the School of Business, the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), Singapore. He specializes in the economics of climate change, economic-energy-environmental modeling, energy and security, oil and macroeconomy, the economics of electricity market deregulation, education for sustainability, and green finance and sustainability. He has published his research output in internationally referred academic journals such as Energy Economics, Energy Journal, Energy Policy, Resources Policy, Economic Modelling, Empirical Economics, Asia Europe Journal, Forest Policy and Economics, Singapore Economic Review, Energy Strategy Reviews, International Economics, Nature and Culture, Natural Hazards and Econometric Theory. He has edited five books such as Energy Security in Asia (World Scientific), Education and Sustainability (Routledge), Energy Conservation in East Asia (World Scientific), Energy and Non-Traditional Security (NTS) in Asia and Rethinking Energy Security in Asia (Springer). As a consultant, he has carried out a few cost-benefit analyses that examined the economics of carbon emissions reductions, market power in the deregulated electricity market, forecasting global demand for methanol, and the impact of carbon control on operations and supply chain. He has conducted training sessions on the deregulation of electricity market for a generation company. Before working in the academy, he worked as a landscape architect for two years in Korea and Saudi Arabia, and a financial analyst for four years in Korea. He has taught at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technology University, Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in Economics (Environmental and Resource Economics) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, U.S.A

Research Interests

• Energy Economics
• Environmental and Resource Economics
• Energy Security
• Education and Sustainability

Educational Qualifications

• 1999
  Ph.D. in Economics – University of Hawaii at Manoa, U.S.A.

• 1988
  MA in Economics (Economic Planning) with honor of summa cum laude, Yonsei University, South Korea

• 1983
  BS in Agriculture (Landscape Architecture), Seoul National University, South Korea

Books:

• Merrill, Michelle Y., Patricia Burkhardt-Holm and Chew Hung Chang, Md Saidul Islam, and Youngho Chang (eds.), Education and Sustainability: Paradigms, Policies and Practices in Asia, Routledge, 2017.

• Kimura, Shigeru, Youngho Chang and Yanfei Li (eds.), Financing Renewable Energy Development in East Asia Summit Countries: A Primer of Effective Policy Instruments, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Jakarta, Indonesia, September 2015.

• Caballero-Anthony, Mely, Youngho Chang and Nur Azha Putra (eds.),Energy and Non-Traditional Security (NTS) in Asia, Springer, 2012.

• Caballero-Anthony, Mely, Youngho Chang and Nur Azha Putra (eds.), Rethinking Energy Security in Asia: A Non-Traditional View of Human Security, Springer, 2012.

• Thomson, Elspeth, Youngho Chang and Jae-Seung Lee (eds.), Energy Conservation in East Asia: Towards Greater Energy Security, World Scientific, Singapore, 2010.