Scott Victor Valentine

Scott Valentine is a Professor of Regenerative Planning and Circular Economy at Kyushu University, Senior Circular Economy Advisor at KPGM in Australia, and Chair of the Australian Circular Economy Hub Advisory board. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Brunei Darussalam and an adjunct Professor in the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), where he was formerly Professor and Associate Dean of Sustainability and Urban Planning.

As an academic he is author of Wind Power Politics and Policies (Oxford University Press), Life in the Balance (Infinity) and co-author of the National Politics of Nuclear Power (Routledge) and Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Empowering the Great Energy Transition (Columbia University Press). He has also published more than 30 book chapters and journal articles and is on the editorial boards of the journals, Sustainability Science and CSR and Environmental Management.

Scott has over 25 years of diverse international business experience specializing in business development and organizational development. Past positions include Executive Vice-President of Vektor Multimedia in charge of Japanese operations (subsequently Sony-Vektor), Managing Director of Asia Pacific Development International, Dean of the British Education College in Tokyo (affiliated with the UK Northern Consortium), and Director of the British Council Training Centre in Taiwan. As a trainer he worked with the Japan International Cooperation Centre and the LKY School Executive Education program to provide leadership training to civil service officers around the world. He has provided training in leadership, public policy and urban planning to public officials at Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs, Brunei’s Ministry of Defense and the Central Bank, Saudi Arabia’s Central Bank and the G20 Secretariat, Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand’s Ministry of Communications, the Hungarian Central Bank, Dubai’s Public Service, India’s Ministry of Finance and Kazakhstan’s International Finance Center in Astana. He has also trained a number of public officials and diplomats who have come to NUS’s open courses.

Scott also served as Associate Professor and founding Associate Director of the International Master of Public Policy program at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo. He has also acted in a research or teaching capacity at the City University of Hong Kong, National Sun Yat Sen University (Taiwan), National Chengchi University (Taiwan) and Shinawatra University (Thailand).