Doctor Ivan Png Paak Liang is a Singaporean economist and academic.
Education
Png attended Anglo-Chinese School. He was awarded a President"s Scholarship.
He then graduated with a Bachelor (First Class Honours) in economics from the Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy in business from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1985.
Career
He is a professor in the School of Business and Professor of Information Systems and Economics at the National University of Singapore. He is the first full-time holder of the Lim Kim San Professorship since its establishment. Png was previously a faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management from 1985 to 1996, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1993 to 1996.
He was a nominated Member of Parliament (10th Parliament of Singapore) from 2005 to 2006.
He was also a Reserve Officer in the Singapore Army Third Division, leaving the service with the rank of Captain.