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I'm Brian.
At The Bridgespan group, I support mission-oriented organizations tackle the world's most pressing challenges and impactful opportunities.
Previously, I supported efforts to enhance Singapore's international organisation, family office, and business hub ecosystems. I also helped leaders make greater impact through systems thinking, human-centred design approaches, and futures.
I am also a classicist, trained at Oxford and Cambridge.
Find me on Linkedin here or get in touch: briantheng[at]gmail.com.
Interreligious Dialogue
ICCS Young Leaders Program Working Comittee
(2025)
Interreligious Youth with Pope Francis Committee
(2024)
I'm a member of the Archdiocesan Catholic Council for Interreligious Dialogue in Singapore.
Religious harmony is a cornerstone of our national identity, and it is a great privilege to help uphold and develop it.
Classics Research
Harmonious Intrusion: Mankind and Nature in Statius' Silvae 1.3
Classical Quarterly (2024)
Finding the Social Life of Rural Non-Elites in Roman Italy
Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 4 (2021)
My academic interests lie at the intersection of society and the economy of ancient Rome. I have a BA (Congratulatory First Class) from the University of Oxford, and a MPhil (Distinction) from the University of Cambridge.
My peer-reviewed articles utilise a broad range of evidence, from the literary to the archaeological, to present new ways of thinking about social relations during the Roman Empire.
Classics and the Modern World
Coldplay, Achilles, Spiderman
Coldplay's Something Just Like This brings to life heroism in ancient epic & modern comics
Perfume and Power
Killing Eve's Villanelle wants to smell like a centurion; what role did it play in Rome?
Epic Rap, Rapping Epic
What do Kanye, Chance, and Alaka have to do with ancient epic poetry?
My First Supper at Pompeii
A review of the Ashmolean's 2019 exhibition, Last Supper in Pompeii
Other Publications
Migrant Workers Colabs: Convening and Empowering the Ecosystem
In: Mathew, M. and Tay, M. (Eds.) (2021) Immigrant Integration in Contemporary Singapore (Singapore: World Scientific Press)
Based on work at the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre's Colabs initiative, I co-authored a chapter on a collaborative solutioning approach to building ecosystem understanding and responses to migrant worker-related issues.
Frames: The Art of Viewing
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