LUNCH TIME CHAT WITH DR. AUSTIN WANG

Media plays a significant role in shaping mindsets. With the widespread proliferation of mis/dis-information, how do you decipher U.S.-China relationship and navigate through the information landscape

Join us on this SG lunch time online chat with Dr. Austin Wang joining from Texas, USA. This one-hour session will be moderated by Ms Claressa Monteiro, Podcast Editor, The Business Times and Singapore Press Club Management Committee Member. 

About Dr. Austin Wang

Austin Horng-En Wang is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research and teaching interests focus on public opinion, political psychology, data visualization, and East Asian politics. He has published in many academic journals related to the People’s Republic of China politics, Taiwan elections and politics, and public opinion related to U.S.-Taiwan relations. As an expert on Asia politics, political data analysis, and a native Mandarin speaker, Wang can discuss media reporting on U.S. or Taiwan elections, media and public opinion, U.S. and Asia relations, and PRC influence and media mis / disinformation. 

About Claressa Monteiro

An award winning producer and broadcast journalist; Claressa Monteiro is The Business Times’ Podcast Editor. Since 2022, she’s led BT Podcasts and driven audio content, strategy, business development and operations. Prior to joining BT, Claressa anchored the Workday Afternoon on MONEY FM 89.3, where she rose to prominence for her in-depth interviews on policy and current affairs with key cabinet ministers from the government of Singapore and international business leaders. Of note, her interviews with Minister of Home Affairs and Law, K. Shanmugam on the hard truths garnered from Singapore’s GE2020 and Co-Founder, Moderna Inc, Robert S. Langer on mRNA vaccine technology. 

She is the recipient of the 2009 COMPASS (Composers & Authors Society of Singapore) Award for Artistic Excellence.