Total 9 job vacancies by Aa Access Partnership Pte. Ltd.

Who we are:

Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. We enable consumer access to technology and lead countries to Fair Tech. To do this, we create the environment that allows governments to adopt technologies effectively and responsibly by analysing global trends for the risks and opportunities they create for technology businesses and users of technology, identifying strategies to mitigate those risks and driving opportunities to our clients’ advantage. Our firm uniquely mixes public policy and engineering competencies to achieve our goals. We have offices in London, Brussels, Singapore, Washington, Abu Dhabi, and Johannesburg—and are growing.

Practice
The Access Partnership Economics Strategy Practice is a team of economists, econometricians, and public policy advisors.

We advise our clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors on the forces shaping their markets, and enable them to make better informed decisions by leveraging rigorous analysis supported by robust evidence, with the purpose to drive growth and improve well-being for themselves as well as the communities they are part of.

We combine the robustness of economic analysis with a practical appreciation of business and government, to support our clients in making and communicating their critical investment and public policy decisions.

The Role

As an Associate Director within the Economics Strategy Practice, you will play a key role in Practice leadership, serving as a people and project manager.

You will have substantive economics advisory, strategy consulting, or experience in public sector projects and will use that expertise to drive business development and contribute to client pitches and proposals. You will also oversee project delivery and mentor the consultant teams you are part of.

You will be accountable for commercial growth of a sub-Practice area and contribute to operational excellence of the Practice, as well as be expected to actively drive growth in major revenue areas and support key client account teams. You will build trusted client relationships and deliver exceptional client solutions. You will play a senior role on projects to ensure rigorous quality assurance across all project outputs. This includes leading consulting project teams, managing the relationship with our client and contributing your individual expertise to problem solving – on technical, and project and client management issues. You will also lead cross-Practice teams, to leverage subject matter expertise from across the organisation in areas such as AI, digital, and connectivity, financial services, health, and public sector.

You will have a solid background in consulting and a strong grasp of economic concepts, as well as a passion for working with clients to solve their real-world problems. You will also be intellectually curious and thrive on playing a role in addressing challenges at the intersection of economics, public policy, and technology. You will be an adept problem-solver, able to support your project teams to arrive quickly at critical issues and guide them on the approach to resolve them.

What you'll do:

Client impact

·         Identify relevant opportunities to drive growth within key client accounts and groups

• Build strong client relationships by delivering real client value through a genuine understanding of client needs.

• Drive new business initiatives across new and existing accounts, overseeing the quality of all client-facing work.

• Ensure that client proposals, research reports, presentation materials, and other products, are at a client-ready level of quality.

Project delivery

·         Oversee delivery of high-impact projects, resolving complex challenges and ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes.

• Ensure strong project governance, so that the structure of accountability and responsibility support effective project delivery and output quality, as a means of ensuring client delivery success.

• Help to create a culture of quality, by implementing quality assurance measures and risk management approaches on projects, to ensure high client satisfaction.

• Effectively representing the Economics Strategy Practice within the firm, amongst cross-Practice project teams.

Practice management

• Support the Practice Head to build, develop, manage, and motivate a high-performing Practice team.

• Maintain a curious mindset and fostering a Practice and project environment that encourages and rewards curiosity among team members.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to Practice team members.

• Ensure existing workflows and processes are adhered to and constantly look for opportunities to improve efficiency.

Strategic Planning & Growth

• Support the articulation of the strategic vision for the Practice team, within the context of the firm’s strategy, so as to contextualise tactical objectives, and help engender support for achieving the firm’s and Practice’s goals.

• Proactively identifies and works to support the pursuit of opportunities to grow the Practice.

• Anticipate broad client and industry challenges and ensure that the firm and Practice is always ahead of the curve.

What you'll need: 

• A degree in economics, public policy, statistics or other relevant discipline from a reputable university, and a strong academic track record. A post-graduate qualification (i.e., Masters or PhD) would be highly regarded, although not essential.

• At least 8 years of experience working with senior decision-makers, often at a top-tier strategy consulting firm, an economics advisory firm, or in a senior public sector role.

• Strong capability to influence stakeholders at all levels, and the ability to “put yourself in the perspective of the audience”.

• Experience leading people in direct reporting relationships, or as part of discrete projects.

• Demonstrable experience in the digital economy, international trade, economic and industry development, health, and labour and skills would be highly regarded.

• Structured research and analysis skills, and an understanding of various quantitative and qualitative analysis tools and techniques. Proficiency with statistical packages such as R, Python, EViews, and Stata would be highly regarded.

What we offer you:

We work in a flexible hybrid model, typically aligning each employee to one of our global offices, with each person spending 2 days per week in the office, and 3 days remote.

Our diverse, international client base of technology giants, start-ups and governments will provide the opportunity to work on multiple projects on behalf of industry leading companies.

We boast a collaborative working environment, social events and a robust support system. We are committed to providing training and professional development for all colleagues.

Company Overview 

Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. Working with both the public and private sectors, we support the development and implementation of policy and regulatory frameworks that drive digital transformation and the growth of the digital economy, whilst enabling market access for innovative technologies and products. Our firm uniquely mixes public policy, economics, legal and regulatory knowledge, as well as engineering competencies to achieve our goals. We have 12 offices globally, including our regional hub in Singapore and 6 others in the AsiaPacific region.  

Public Sector Advisory Practice  

The Public Sector Advisory Practice works with governments and multilateral institutions across the world to design, implement, and measure the impact of digital and tech-related policy and regulation, and other policy adjacencies (e.g. trade, financial services and labour). Blending technical and public policy expertise with in-depth industry insights we ensure that policy is innovative, impactful, and contributes to solving major public policy questions. Specifically, the Practice focuses on: 

• public policy and regulatory design for governments; 

• programme strategy, design, and implementation for international donors and multilateral banks and other global institutions; and 

• campaigns at multilateral institutions. 

Our team operates globally, with team members located in Washington DC, Colombia, Brazil, Singapore and London. Current clients include the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the ASEAN and APEC Secretariats, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), as well as direct-to-government contracts with several G20 countries.  Recent projects have included the design of a regulatory academy for the communications regulator in the Middle East; exploring the potential for emerging technology to be used in the fight against corruption; designing an interactive, ethical AI tool for developers and deployers; and advising on the design and roll-out of digital financial infrastructure.  

Job Purpose 

The Associate Director is a commercial and strategic face of Access Partnership’s Public Sector Advisory (PSA) practice across Asia Pacific. This is first and foremost a growth role: the successful candidate will own the region’s PSA revenue line, actively hunting and closing new mandates, deepening existing client relationships, and expanding the practice’s footprint across governments, donors, and multilateral institutions. Alongside this commercial leadership, they serve as the practice’s internal and external voice on public sector thinking within the Singapore/Asia team. Ensuring that every regional opportunity is assessed not only through a commercial or economic lens but with a grounded public sector perspective specifically, identifying how to expand our thematic focus into new areas. They set a clear 6–12 month strategic vision for their client accounts, lead complex cross-practice delivery, and act as a role model and multiplier, building team capability, growing careers, and embedding a client-centric, commercially-minded culture across the business. 

Key Responsibilities 

1. Go-to-Market Strategy & Account Growth 

• Take a lead role in the commercial performance of the AP Public Sector Advisory practice in Asia Pacific: set and deliver against a clear 6–12 month revenue and pipeline target, proactively identify and convert high-value opportunities across the region, and be jointly accountable for team outcomes. This role is the commercial engine of the PSA practice in APAC, driving growth is a core mandate. 

• Confidently lead new business initiatives for both new and existing clients, driving account growth and ensuring alignment with Access Partnership’s global priorities. 

• Actively seek to expand the breadth of the current technical offering into other digital and tech areas and adjacencies. 

• Lead bid responses to requests for proposals (RFPs) ensuring technical rigour and commercial competitiveness; support the development of this capability more broadly with the team/AP. 

• Bring a genuine public sector lens to every commercial conversation, internally and externally. While Access Partnership’s regional leadership will provide broader market and economic context, this role is responsible for articulating and advocating the public sector perspective on any opportunity: how governments and multilateral institutions think, what they will and won’t fund, and when a conventional commercial framing needs to be recast to reflect public sector realities. This is not a passive input, the Associate Director should be willing to constructively challenge and redirect where the PS dimension is being under-weighted. 

2. Client Relationships & Thought Leadership 

• Serve as a face of Access Partnership’s Public Sector Advisory practice across Asia Pacific: the primary point of contact and trusted strategic partner for a selection of the practice’s major regional accounts (including, ADB, APEC, DFAT, FCDO, World Bank). Leverage existing personal networks and build new senior relationships to drive long-term account value and growth, while ensuring AP is consistently positioned as the go-to adviser on public sector digital and technology policy in the region. 

• Continue to develop technical and market expert leadership internally and externally, driving new thought leadership, contributing to industry forums and conferences, and building capabilities to meet emerging demand in digital and tech policy. 

• Represent Access Partnership at key international forums, conferences, and media engagements, anticipating broad client and industry challenges to ensure the practice is always ahead of the curve. 

3. Delivery Excellence & Quality Assurance 

• Demonstrate excellence in project directorship/management by leading complex, often cross-practice projects, ensuring quality, relevance, and commercial rigour; address delivery issues early and make smart trade-offs to achieve the best client outcomes. 

• Handle complex and unfamiliar challenges under pressure, breaking down problems into actionable solutions and maintaining quality oversight on all bids, tenders, and proposals for our clients. 

• Ensure quality control of all work under your remit, monitoring practice-wide delivery standards, client satisfaction, and performance metrics to drive continuous improvement. 

• Actively build further technical competency in areas that match personal interests as well as business need. 

4. Team Leadership & Capability Building 

• Act as a multiplier by leveraging cross-practice teams to enable the best outcomes for clients, leading a diverse team with different skillsets, delegating work effectively, driving performance, and growing consulting and client capability. 

• Understand and help to manage practice financials, including forecasting, resource allocation, and profitability, embedding a collaborative culture and ensuring sustainable long-term growth. 

• Take on line-management responsibilities as the team in Singapore, and globally, continues to grow.  

• Serve as a recognised role model and mentor across the business, growing careers, fostering a culture of excellence and client-centricity, and collaborating across practices to deliver integrated solutions for complex policy challenges. 

Qualifications and Experience 

• 10–12 years of experience in public policy, international development, regulatory affairs, or technology advisory. 

• Experience in consulting or advisory roles for governments, international donors (e.g. World Bank, ADB, DFAT, FCDO, USAID), or global organisations (e.g. UN, OECD). 

• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder projects on digital transformation, technology governance, or innovation policy across multiple markets. 

• Demonstrated success in business development, from opportunity identification to bid leadership and client relationship management. 

• Strong record of building senior stakeholder relationships and influencing decision-making at the highest levels. 

• Leadership experience in developing and motivating diverse teams to achieve strategic and commercial goals. 

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to distil complex policy issues into clear, actionable insights. 

• Commercial and strategic acumen, including experience managing budgets, resources, and profitability. 

Nice to have: 

• Advanced degree in public policy, international relations, economics, law, engineering, or a related discipline. 

• Familiarity with programme design, monitoring, and evaluation frameworks used in development cooperation. 

• Regional experience in Asia, Africa, or the Middle East, with cross-cultural stakeholder engagement. 

• Recognised thought leadership or public speaking credentials in technology policy or digital transformation. 

What We Offer  

• Competitive salary and benefits package. 

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.  

• A collaborative and supportive work environment. 

• The opportunity to make a tangible impact on global digital policy and contribute to Access Partnership’s mission of shaping a fair, open, and sustainable digital future. 

About us

Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. We enable consumer access to technology and lead countries to Fair Tech. To do this, we create the environment that allows governments to adopt technologies effectively and responsibly by analysing global trends for the risks and opportunities they create for technology businesses and users of technology, identifying strategies to mitigate those risks and driving opportunities to our clients’ advantage. Our firm uniquely mixes public policy and engineering competencies to achieve our goals. We have offices in London, Brussels, Singapore, Washington, Abu Dhabi, and Southeast Asia—and are growing.

Practice Summary

The Access Partnership Economics Strategy practice is a team of economists, econometricians, and public policy advisors. We advise our clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors on the forces shaping their markets, helping them to make better informed decisions, and assisting them with developing strategies to create prosperity and well-being for themselves and the communities they are part of. We have a focus on digital economy and trade, economic development, and the future of work. We are committed to helping solve the world’s most complex problems.

Role, responsibilities, and requirements summary

As an Intern with the Economics Strategy practice, you will play an important role in supporting the delivery of client projects. As part of this role, you will have the following responsibilities.

Client: You research client needs, policies, and trends to create targeted materials, proposals, and presentations. Your insights help the team offer relevant solutions, build client trust and win work

Project Delivery: You deliver high-quality work backed by strong research, analysis, and writing.

Collaboration: You proactively offer to support work across the business and learn from feedback and experience

You will have expertise or interest in economics or public policy, and a passion for working with clients to solve their real-world problems. You will also be intellectually curious and be keen to work on challenges at the intersection of economics, public policy, and technology.

Responsibilities

Research and Analysis

• Keep abreast of policy topics, political trends, regulations, and industry developments.
• Quantitative and qualitative data gathering and analysis
• Timely inputs and insights, as directed, for client projects (briefs, reports, etc)

Communications

• Draft presentations, reports, and other client deliverables
• Contribute to the development of proposals and frameworks with guidance

Teamwork

• Curious mindset and unafraid to ask questions and collaborate with peers
• Strong team player, always proactively asking where support can be provided
• Adaptable to change and able to learn new tasks quickly

Operational Excellence

·       Support continuous improvements activities with clear documentation

·       Adhere to existing workflows and processes and suggest areas of opportunity for greater efficiencies

·       Ensure required quality standards are consistently achieved

·       Well organized, highly motivated, and proactive in finding ways to get things done and meet professional goals

Requirements

• Demonstrable subject matter exposure in economics, digital transformation, international trade, and its relevance to public policy.
• Strong structured research and analysis skills, and understanding of various quantitative and qualitative analysis tools and techniques.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-organisation and time-management skills.
• Proficiency with productivity tools such as Microsoft Office (advanced), Microsoft Visio, Google Suite, Tableau, Jira (confluence), Thinkcell, and with statistical packages such as R, Python, and Stata preferred.

Associate Director/Director - Global Government Advisory
Digital Transformation, Digital Public Infrastructure, Public Sector Consulting

About us: 

Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. We enable consumer access to technology and lead countries to Fair Tech. To do this, we create the environment that allows governments to adopt technologies effectively and responsibly by analysing global trends for the risks and opportunities they create for technology businesses and users of technology, identifying strategies to mitigate those risks and driving opportunities to our clients’ advantage. Our firm uniquely mixes public policy and engineering competencies to achieve our goals. We have offices in London, Brussels, Singapore, Washington, Abu Dhabi, and Johannesburg—and are growing.

Global Government Advisory Practice

The Global Government Advisory Practice works with governments and multilateral institutions across the world to design, implement, and measure the impact of digital and tech-related policy and regulation. Blending technical and public policy expertise with in-depth industry insights we ensure that policy is innovative, impactful, and contributes to solving major public policy questions. Specifically, the practice focuses on:

• public policy and regulatory design for governments;

• programme strategy, design, and implementation for international donors and multilateral banks and other global institutions; and

• campaigns at multilateral institutions.

Our team operates globally, with a team members located in South America, Singapore and London. Current clients include the Asian Development Bank, the ASEAN Secretariat, the World Bank, as well as direct-to-government contracts with several G20 countries. Recent projects have included the design of a regulatory academy for the communications regulator in the Middle East; exploring the potential for emerging technology to be used in the fight against corruption; designing an interactive, ethical AI tool for developers and deployers; and advising on the design and roll-out of digital financial infrastructure.

What you can expect to be doing:

The Associate Director / Director will contribute to the technical strategy, commercial growth, and operational excellence of the practice. The role focuses on delivering high-quality technical inputs and providing expert advice to public sector clients on digital transformation and digital public infrastructure. They will play a senior role on projects, project managing and/or leading their own workstreams to ensure rigorous quality assurance across all project outputs.

The Associate Director / Director will combine deep technical expertise with strong client-relationship skills to ensure impactful delivery and high client satisfaction. This role is designed for an experienced consultant with substantial technical knowledge, capable of designing and delivering complex technical outputs, leading multidisciplinary teams, and engaging confidently with government and public sector stakeholders.

What you will bring:

Technical & Industry Expertise

• Lead complex, cross-practice technical workstreams and act as a recognised expert in digital transformation and emerging technology policy.

• Represent Access Partnership at industry and multilateral forums, contributing thought leadership and shaping market positioning.

• Contribute to the development of public sector RFP responses, with a focus on developing robust and project-relevant methodologies and designing technical programmes.

• Build new capabilities and intellectual assets that anticipate client needs and keep the organisation ahead of public policy and industry trends.

Client Impact

• Identify relevant public sector opportunities to drive growth and broaden Access Partnership’s client portfolio.

• Build and maintain trusted senior client relationships, ensuring exceptional delivery and long-term value.

• Drive new business initiatives across new and existing accounts, overseeing the quality of all client-facing work.

Project Delivery

• Oversee delivery of high-impact projects, resolving complex challenges and ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes.

• Identify and address delivery risks early, making sound trade-offs to maintain momentum and client value.

• Ensure rigorous quality control across all outputs within your client group, including reports, proposals, and strategic materials.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing, multidisciplinary team through effective delegation, coaching, and performance management.

• Foster a collaborative, cross-practice culture that leverages diverse expertise to deliver integrated solutions.

• Act as a visible role model and mentor across the organisation, building consulting capability and supporting career growth.

Qualifications and Experience

• Associate Director: 8 years + of experience / Director: 12 years+ of experience in public policy, international development, or technology advisory, and working with governments, multilaterals, or donor-funded programmes.

• Proven ability to take a significant role on complex, multi-stakeholder projects focused on digital transformation, technology governance, or innovation policy across multiple markets.

• Substantial technical expertise in digital transformation and digital public infrastructure. • Strong record of building senior stakeholder relationships.

• Project leadership experience to achieve project objectives.

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to distil complex policy issues into clear, actionable insights.

• Commercial and strategic acumen, including experience managing project budgets, resources, and profitability.

• Willingness and experience in mentoring junior members on area(s) of technical expertise to build team capacity.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in public policy, international relations, economics, law, engineering, or a related discipline.

• Experience in consulting or advisory roles for governments, international donors (e.g. World Bank, ADB, DFAT, FCDO, USAID), or global organisations (e.g. UN, OECD).

• Familiarity with programme design, monitoring, and evaluation frameworks used in development cooperation.

• Regional experience in Asia, LATAM and/or the Middle East, with cross-cultural stakeholder engagement.

• Growing profile in thought leadership or public speaking credentials in technology policy or digital transformation.
  

What We Offer:

Our diverse international client base of technology giants and start-ups will provide the opportunity to work on multiple international projects on behalf of some of the industry’s leading companies. Our firm boasts a collaborative working environment, social events and a robust support system. We are committed to providing training and professional development for all colleagues.

About us: 

Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. We advise corporates on how to bring emerging technologies to market and support governments in developing fair and effective regulatory frameworks that enable all stakeholders to benefit. Our firm uniquely combines expertise in public policy, economics, and strategic communications to deliver impactful outcomes. With a growing global presence, we operate from offices in London, Brussels, and Washington, D.C., and across major Asian cities including Bangkok, Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Singapore. 

Practice Summary 

Access Partnership is a global advisory firm that makes innovation work for the world by helping governments, industry, and development partners navigate complex regulatory and policy environments. With more than 150 consultants across 39 countries, we combine a strong global footprint with region-specific technical expertise and on-the-ground presence across Asia and other key markets. 

Our Health & Life Sciences team brings deep experience in health systems strengthening, health financing & policy, and market access strategy. We work at the intersection of technical analysis and ecosystem shaping—partnering with ministries of health and finance, regulatory authorities, biopharmaceutical companies, and multilateral institutions to translate evidence into policy reform and sustainable access pathways. Our experts have served within governments, global foundations, USAID, WHO, and development banks, giving us a practical understanding of how policy is designed, financed, and operationalized—and how to align incentives across the broader health ecosystem. 

The result is a distinctive model: technical depth, real-world policy engagement, and in-market execution capability—enabling clients to unlock access, shape sustainable solutions, and deliver measurable impact across diverse health systems.  

Role 

As a Director within the Health & Life Sciences, you will play a key role in Practice leadership, further expanding our market presence, client portfolio, and technical expertise, serving as a people and project manager and a thought leader.  

You will be a recognized thought leader in Asia-Pacific in public health, market access, health financing, or health sector government affairs, and will use that expertise to drive business development, oversee project delivery, and mentor the consultant team to drive the long-term growth of the Practice. 

You will play a senior role on projects, ensuring rigorous quality assurance across all project outputs. This includes leading multiple consulting project teams, managing the relationship with our client, and contributing your individual expertise to problem-solving on technical, project, and client management issues. You will also lead cross-Practice teams, to leverage subject matter expertise from across the firm in areas such as AI, digital, economic strategy, global government affairs, and connectivity and financial services. 

You will have a solid background in consulting, a strong grasp of health systems and policy concepts, and a passion for working with clients to solve real-world problems. You will also be intellectually curious and thrive on playing a role in addressing challenges at the intersection of healthcare, economics, public policy, and technology. You will be an adept problem-solver, able to support your project teams in quickly identifying critical issues and guiding them in the approach to resolve them.  

You will be accountable for commercial growth of the Practice and contribute to operational excellence of the Practice, as well as be expected to actively drive growth in key client accounts as well as bring in new clients to the Practice and the firm more broadly.  

Responsibilities 

Client impact 

• Identify relevant opportunities to drive growth and broaden Access Partnership’s client portfolio. 

• Build and maintain trusted senior client relationships, ensuring exceptional delivery and long-term value. 

• Drive new business initiatives across new and existing accounts, overseeing the quality of all client-facing work. 

• Ensure that client proposals, research reports, presentation materials, and other products are at a client-ready level of quality. 

Project delivery 

• Oversee delivery of high-impact projects, resolving complex challenges and ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes. 

• Ensure strong project governance, so that the structure of accountability and responsibility supports effective project delivery and output quality, as a means of ensuring client delivery success and long-term client retention.  

• Support the project teams to monitor billability and productivity of its members, as well as gross margins on the project overall, to ensure cost-effective client delivery. 

Practice management 

• Support the Practice Head to build, develop, manage, and motivate a high-performing Practice team. 

• Support the Practice Head in providing Practice and project updates to senior management and central teams, as required. 

• Ensure existing workflows and processes are adhered to and constantly look for opportunities to improve efficiency. 

Strategic Planning & Growth 

• Contribute to the strategic vision for the Practice team, within the context of the firm’s strategy, so as to contextualize tactical objectives, and help engender support for achieving the firm’s and Practice’s goals. 

• Proactively identify and pursue opportunities to grow the Practice. 

• Maintain vigilance over developments in the market and supports the Practice Head to guide the direction to grow the Practice. 

• Support the Practice Head to ensure that the individual billability targets for members of the Practice team are met, and that the financial performance of the overall Practice is achieved. 

Requirements 

• A degree in public health, health economics, public policy, or other relevant discipline from a reputable university. A post-graduate qualification (i.e., Master's, MBA, or PhD) would be highly regarded, although not essential. 

• At least 15 years of experience working with senior decision-makers in APEC economies or ASEAN countries, preferably at a top-tier consulting firm, health companies or other healthcare related sector, or in a senior public sector role. 

• Commercial and strategic acumen, including experience managing project budgets, resources, and profitability. 

• Strong capability to influence stakeholders at all levels, and the ability to “put yourself in the perspective of the audience”. 

• Substantive experience leading people in direct reporting relationships, or as part of discrete projects. 

• Demonstrates mental agility and comfort operating in evolving environments; able to design, refine, and adapt processes where formal structures may be limited. 

• A blend of demonstrable expertise in health care policy, market access, and/or health economics or healthcare project management. 

• Proficient in English as a second language, with previous experience at the workplace, implementing projects or delivering lectures in this language. 

What we offer you: 

We work in a flexible hybrid model, typically aligning each employee to one of our global offices, with each person spending 2 days per week in the office, and 3 days remote.

Our diverse, international client base of technology giants, start-ups and governments will provide the opportunity to work on multiple projects on behalf of industry leading companies. 

We boast a collaborative working environment, social events and a robust support system. We are committed to providing training and professional development for all colleagues. 

Who we are: 

Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. We advise corporates on how to bring emerging technologies to market and support governments in developing fair and effective regulatory frameworks that enable all stakeholders to benefit. Our firm uniquely combines expertise in public policy, economics, and strategic communications to deliver impactful outcomes. With a growing global presence, we operate from offices in London, Brussels, and Washington, D.C., and across major Asian cities including Bangkok, Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Singapore. 

This role sits within Asia Group Advisors, now part Access Partnership’s Public Affairs Practice, and offers the opportunity to work alongside some of the world’s prominent multinational corporations, multilateral organizations and governments. You will play a key role in delivering client objectives and contributing to the growth of our footprint in Asia. AGA works across a wide range of sectors and issues—from agriculture and energy to finance and the digital economy—helping clients navigate the intersection of government, business, and civil society in Asia. Our consultants are creative, dedicated problem-solvers who offer deep local insight and content-driven solutions.  

The Role

As an Associate Director, you will play a key role driving our public affairs client service and client development in Asia.  

You will oversee the delivery of high-stakes public affairs campaigns, navigating complex political and regulatory landscapes to provide clients with insights that are clear, actionable and grounded in business needs. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, resolving complex advocacy challenges and ensuring deliverables meet a high standard of quality and strategic intent. Beyond project execution, you will lead and inspire a high-performing team, fostering a culture of intellectual curiosity and client-centricity through direct mentorship and focus on problem solving.  

You will proactively drive the growth of the practice by identifying emerging policy trends and converting them into commercial opportunities across new and existing client accounts. You will maintain a high level of external engagement and be visible to current and potential clients. Leveraging your professional network, you will engage with key political stakeholders, industry bodies, and media figures to position the firm at the forefront of the public discourse. You will be responsible for spearheading the pursuit of new business, leading the creation of compelling proposals and delivering high-impact pitches that articulate a clear, strategic vision.  

In this role you will:

• Build trusted-advisor relationships by delivering strategic counsel aligned with clients’ commercial and policy objectives 

• Oversee advocacy and public policy campaigns, ensuring effective resolution of political challenges and measurable outcomes 

• Identify growth opportunities related to emerging technologies, political developments, and investment trends 

• Drive revenue by securing new business and managing client accounts effectively 

• Partner with leadership to recruit and motivate a high-performing team of public affairs consultants and policy specialists 

• Foster a culture of excellence and intellectual curiosity that encourages proactive engagement with policy trends 

• Enhance firm visibility through active participation in industry associations and thought leadership initiatives 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate public affairs into broader firm offerings 

What you will need 

• 10+ years’ experience advising senior decision-makers, ideally including within a top-tier public affairs or strategic communications firm 

• Strong policy and advocacy expertise, including policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, and strategic communications 

• Proven ability to navigate complex client environments and manage both internal and external challenges 

• Demonstrated leadership experience, including managing direct reports and/or leading discrete project teams 

• Excellence in structured problem-solving and executive communication, with the ability to frame issues clearly and write and present for senior audiences 

• Entrepreneurial mindset, with the initiative to originate opportunities, lead industry initiatives, and represent the firm externally 

What we offer you: 

We work in a flexible hybrid model, typically aligning each employee to one of our global offices, with each person spending 2 days per week in the office, and 3 days remote. This role is Singapore-based but we will consider other locations in Asia depending on the successful candidate’s profile. 

Our diverse, international client base of technology giants, start-ups and governments will provide the opportunity to work on multiple projects on behalf of industry leading companies. 

We boast a collaborative working environment, social events and a robust support system. We are committed to providing training and professional development for all colleagues. 

Who we are:

Access Partnership is the frontier consultancy getting innovation into market faster across technology, AI, Space and Health. With over 150 experts across six continents, we help clients in government, private sector and industry navigate complex regulatory, policy and communications challenges for the benefit of society.

Complex problems don't sit in silos and neither do we. Delivering frontier innovation into market takes a team of specialists that get you from concept to diffusion. Our architects of innovation - from strategists, economists, engineers, physicians to lawyers - work as one team to deliver technology into market for the benefit of society

Practice Summary

The Access Partnership Economics Strategy practice is a team of economists, econometricians, and public policy advisors.

We advise our clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors on the forces shaping their markets, and enable them to make better informed decisions by leveraging rigorous analysis supported by robust evidence, with the purpose to drive growth and improve well-being for themselves as well as the communities they are part of.

We combine the robustness of economic analysis with a practical appreciation of business and government, to support our clients in making and communicating their critical investment and public policy decisions.

Role, responsibilities, and requirements summary

As an Analyst with the Economics Strategy practice, you will play an important role in supporting the delivery of client projects and contribute to client pitches and proposals. As part of this role, you will have the following responsibilities.

Client: You research client needs, policies, and trends to create targeted materials, proposals, and presentations. Your insights help the team offer relevant solutions, build client trust and win work

Technical & Industry Expertise: You analyse issues using critical thinking and research, adding insight beyond the data to shape stronger recommendations. Your curiosity about the global economy, geopolitics, and technology policy deepens the team’s understanding of our clients and markets and improves our strategic advice

Project Delivery: You deliver high-quality work backed by strong research, analysis, and writing. You flag potential issues early, helping the team stay on track and meet client expectations

Collaboration & Leadership: You work effectively in a team and across practices and clients, clearly sharing ideas and updates. You proactively offer to support work across the business and learn from feedback and experience

You will have expertise or interest in economics or public policy, and a passion for working with clients to solve their real-world problems. You will also be intellectually curious and be keen to work on challenges at the intersection of economics, public policy, and technology.

Responsibilities

Research and Analysis

• Keeping abreast of tech policy trends, political trends, and industry developments.

• Keeping up-to-date with relevant academic and grey literature, particularly around novel applications of economics analysis to public policy issues and the technology sector.

• Undertaking desktop research, including structured literature reviews and meta-analysis.

Communications

• Drafting input into client proposals, research reports, presentation materials, and other products, to a client-ready level of quality following feedback and guidance from subject matter experts.

• Undertaking effective written and verbal communications with stakeholders of varying seniority, primarily internal stakeholders, but being able to constructively engage with external stakeholders together with senior team members.

Teamwork

• Maintaining a curious mindset and being unafraid to ask the right questions, particularly among internal stakeholders.

• Being a strong team player, by always proactively asking where you can support the team.

• Proactively driving your own professional development, as well as contributing to the development of technical expertise of your immediate team by readily sharing new experiences.

Operational Excellence

• Being adaptable to a constantly changing work environment, and actively seek to learn about new subject matter, new research approaches, and new analytical tools.

• Adhering to established workflows and processes to ensure efficiency of delivery, and help suggest areas for improvement.

• Adhering to regulatory and internal compliance requirements as required.

• Ensuring that the outputs you are involved with consistently achieve the required standards for quality, by adhering to quality assurance processes and maintaining a critical-thinking mindset.

• Being well organised, and self-sufficient in managing your own time to meet your responsibilities.

Requirements

• Good undergraduate degree from a reputable university, with a quantitative background, and a strong academic track record. An economics, public policy, or statistics degree is preferred but not essential to succeed in the role.

• Demonstrable subject matter exposure in economics and its relevance to the digital economy, international trade, economic and industry development, health, and labour and skills.

• Structured research and analysis skills and an understanding of various quantitative and qualitative analysis tools and techniques.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong self-organisation and time-management skills.

• Proficiency with productivity tools such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, and experience with statistical packages such as R, Python, and Stata preferred.

What we offer you:

We work in a flexible hybrid model, typically aligning each employee to one of our global offices, with each person spending 2 days per week in the office, and 3 days remote.

Our diverse, international client base of technology giants, start-ups and governments will provide the opportunity to work on multiple projects on behalf of industry leading companies.

We boast a collaborative working environment, social events and a robust support system. We are committed to providing training and professional development for all colleagues.

About us: 

Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. We enable consumer access to technology and lead countries to Fair Tech. To do this, we create the environment that allows governments to adopt technologies effectively and responsibly by analysing global trends for the risks and opportunities they create for technology businesses and users of technology, identifying strategies to mitigate those risks and driving opportunities to our clients’ advantage. Our firm uniquely mixes public policy and engineering competencies to achieve our goals. We have offices in London, Brussels, Singapore, Washington, Abu Dhabi, and Johannesburg—and are growing.

Global Government Advisory Practice 

Access Partnership works with governments and multilateral institutions across the world to design, implement, and measure the impact of digital and tech-related policy and regulation. Blending technical and public policy expertise with in-depth industry insights we ensure that policy is innovative, impactful, and contributes to solving major public policy questions. Specifically, the practice focuses on:

• public policy and regulatory design for governments;
• programme strategy, design, and implementation for international donors and multilateral banks and other global institutions; and
• campaigns at multilateral institutions.

Past and current clients include: governments in the Asia-Pacific region, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCDO), Australia’s Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), USAID, the ASEAN Secretariat, the APEC Secretariat, and the UN’s International Telecommunications Union.

What you can expect to be doing:

As a Manager (based on experience), you will leverage and further develop your subject matter expertise to support the delivery of significant value to our public sector clients based in the Asia Pacific region through proposal development, project design and implementation, as well as well as relationship management. Understanding the public policymaking process and tech and digital policy issues, you will help to design and provide advisory services to governments and public institutions on strategy, policy, and regulation, at a national, regional and multilateral level.

Leading small project teams, managing larging project teams, or working as an experienced individual contributor on larger, cross-functional teams, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality work that exceeds client expectations. You will build strong client relationships identify new opportunities and contribute to account growth. It is expected that you will develop a personal, expert brand, representing the expertise of yourself and the company at conferences and external events where opportunities arise.

• Client: You research client needs, policies, and trends to create targeted materials, proposals, and presentations. Your insights help the team offer relevant solutions, build client trust, and win work.
• Technical and Industry Expertise: You analyse issues using critical thinking and research, adding insight beyond the data to shape stronger recommendations. Your curiosity about digital transformation, digital ID, digital finance, AI and emerging technologies, as well as the important role of public policy deepens the team’s understanding of our clients, their mandates and improves our strategic advice.
• Project Delivery: You deliver high-quality work backed by strong research, analysis, and writing. You flag potential issues early, helping the team stay on track and meet client expectations.
• Collaboration and Initiative/Leadership: You work effectively in a team and across practices and clients, clearly sharing ideas and updates. You proactively offer to support work across the business and learn from feedback and experience.

You will have expertise or interest in digital transformation and public policy, as well as a passion to work with our clients on real-world problems to deliver tangible impact. You will also be intellectually curious and be keen to work on challenges at the intersection of public policy, technology, international affairs and/or economics.

Research and Analysis

• Keeping abreast of tech policy trends at a national, regional, and multilateral level.

• Keeping up-to-date with new programmatic approaches and the spending priorities of our core public sector clients.
• Undertaking desktop research, including structured literature reviews and meta-analysis.
• Support stakeholder consultations by preparing briefs, developing interview guides, taking detailed notes, and helping to synthesise key findings.

Communications

• Drafting input into client proposals, research reports, presentation materials, and other products, to a client-ready level of quality following feedback and guidance from subject matter experts and managers.

• Undertaking effective written and verbal communications with stakeholders of varying seniority, primarily internal stakeholders, but being able to constructively engage with external stakeholders together with senior team members.

Teamwork

• Maintaining a curious mindset and being unafraid to ask the right questions, particularly among internal stakeholders.

• Being a strong team player, by always proactively asking where you can support the team, and how you can be a better team player.

• Proactively driving your own professional development, as well as contributing to the development of technical expertise of your immediate team by readily sharing new experiences.

Operational Excellence

• Being adaptable to a constantly changing work environment, and actively seek to learn about new subject matter, new research approaches, and new analytical tools.

• Adhering to established workflows and processes to ensure efficiency of delivery and suggesting areas for improvement.

• Adhering to regulatory and internal compliance requirements as required.

• Ensuring that the outputs you are involved with consistently achieve the required standards for quality, by adhering to quality assurance processes and maintaining a critical-thinking mindset.

• Being well organised, and self-sufficient in managing your own time to meet your responsibilities.

What you will bring:

• At least 2-3 years of work of experience within (or understanding of) the public sector / government, or multilateral organisation, with demonstrable subject matter exposure to any of the following: public policy, digital transformation and the digital economy, digital ID, digital payments, AI, and connectivity.
• Good undergraduate degree from a reputable university. Degrees in public policy, international relations, or a tech-related subject are preferred, but not required.
• Accredited qualifications in project management would be a bonus e.g., PMP, PMI.
• Strong structured research and analysis skills, with the ability to condense large quantities of information from various sources.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-organisation and time-management skills.
• Proficiency with productivity tools such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, and with AI products.

What We Offer:

Our diverse international client base of technology giants and start-ups will provide the opportunity to work on multiple international projects on behalf of some of the industry’s leading companies. Our firm boasts a collaborative working environment, social events and a robust support system. We are committed to providing training and professional development for all colleagues.

About Us

Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. We enable consumer access to technology and lead countries to Fair Tech. To do this, we create the environment that allows governments to adopt technologies effectively and responsibly by analysing global trends for the risks and opportunities they create for technology businesses and users of technology, identifying strategies to mitigate those risks and driving opportunities to our clients’ advantage. Our firm uniquely mixes public policy and engineering competencies to achieve our goals. We have offices in London, Brussels, Singapore, Washington —and are growing.

Economic Strategy Practice

The Access Partnership Economics Strategy practice is a team of economists, econometricians, and public policy advisors.

We advise our clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors on the forces shaping their markets, and enable them to make better informed decisions by leveraging rigorous analysis supported by robust evidence, with the purpose to drive growth and improve well-being for themselves as well as the communities they are part of.

We combine the robustness of economic analysis with a practical appreciation of business and government, to support our clients in making and communicating their critical investment and public policy decisions.

We have three broad focus areas: Digital Economy & Trade, Economic Development, and the Future of Work. We are committed to helping solve the world’s most complex problems.

What you'll do:

As a Director within Economics Strategy, you will play a key role in practice leadership, be a though leader, as well as a people and project leader. You will be a thought leader in your area of subject matter expertise, and will use that expertise to contribute to client pitches and proposals, project delivery, mentoring of our team, and to drive the long-term growth of our practice.

As well as being responsible for your own deliverables and schedule, you will also be accountable for leading the work of others. You will be expected to lead multiple consulting project teams, including managing the relationship with our client and planning the work of the team, but the most significant focus will be contributing your individual expertise to problem solving – on technical, and project and client management issues. Your tasks could include developing research methodologies, including systematic literature reviews and primary research design, as well as developing approaches to data analysis, including specifying quantitative economic models and econometric models, drafting and reviewing client deliverables, as well as making client and public presentations. You will be leading multiple large teams, including cross-practice teams, to leverage subject matter expertise from across the organisation in areas such as AI, data governance, and digital transformation.

You will have a solid background in economics and econometrics, and a passion for using your economics training to work with clients to solve their real world problems. You will also be intellectually curious and thrive on playing a role in addressing challenges at the intersection of economics, public policy, and technology. You will be an adept problem-solver, able to support your project teams to arrive quickly at critical issues and guide them on the approach to resolve them.

Communications

• Ensuring that client proposals, research reports, presentation materials, and other products, are at a client-ready level of quality.
• Effectively influencing, through strong written and verbal communications skills, senior stakeholders, both internal and external, and independently leading significant engagements with external stakeholders.
• Effectively building and maintain a strong network of external supporters, from industry, academia, and government.
• Effectively representing the Economics Strategy practice within the firm, amongst cross-practice project teams.
• Supporting the Practice Head in providing practice and project updates to senior management and central teams, as required.

Team Leadership and Talent Management

• Maintaining a curious mindset and fostering a practice and project environment that encourages and rewards curiosity among team members.
• Being a strong team leader, by always supporting the team.
• Driving the development of technical expertise of the practice by sharing your subject matter expertise, and helping identify training and development opportunities.
• Providing guidance and mentorship to practice team members.
• Supporting the Practice Head to build, develop, manage, and motivate a high-performing practice team.

Operational Excellence

• Meet regulatory and internal compliance requirements.
• Ensuring existing workflows and processes are adhered to, and constantly looking for opportunity to improve efficiency.
• Helping to create a culture of quality, by implementing quality assurance measures and risk management approaches on projects, to ensure high client satisfaction.
• Supporting the Practice Head to ensure that the individual billability targets for members of the practice team are met, and that the financial performance of the overall practice is achieved.

Project Management

• Ensuring strong project governance, so that the structure of accountability and responsibility support effective project delivery and output quality, as a means of ensuring client delivery success.
• Supporting the project teams to monitor billability and productivity of its members, as well as gross margins on the project overall, to ensure cost-effective client delivery.
• Helping to address challenges around client delivery, including by anticipating and ongoing management of project risks and interdependencies within and across projects, to help ensure successful client delivery.
• Supporting the Practice Head to drive a strong project management culture.

Customer Focus

• Building strong client relationships by delivering real client value through a genuine understanding of client needs.
• Ensuring high client satisfaction through high quality delivery, clear communication, and appropriate responsiveness.
• Bringing a commercial mindset to client discussions, with a clear understanding of our role and value-add as a professional advisors.
• Consistently thinking of adding value to clients by contributing your in-depth subject matter expertise and sound, independent advice.

Strategic Planning & Growth

• Help to articulate the strategic vision for the practice team, within the context of the firm’s strategy, so as to contextualize tactical objectives, and help engender support for achieving the firm’s and practice’s goals.
• Proactively identifies and works to support the pursuit of opportunities to grow the practice.
• Maintains vigilance over developments in the market, and supports the Practice Head to guide the direction to grow the practice.

What you'll need:

• A degree in economics, public policy, statistics or other relevant discipline from a reputable university, and a strong academic track record. A post-graduate qualification (i.e., Masters or PhD) would be highly regarded, although not essential.
• Substantive experience working with senior decision-makers, often at a top-tier strategy consulting firm, an economics advisory firm, or in a senior public sector role.
• Strong capability to influence stakeholders at all levels, and the ability to “put yourself in the perspective of the audience”.
• Substantive experience leading people in direct reporting relationships, or as part of discrete projects.
• Demonstrable subject matter expertise in economics and its relevance to the digital economy, international trade, economic and industry development, and labour and skills would be highly regarded.
• Strong structured research and analysis skills, and a deep understanding of various quantitative and qualitative analysis tools and techniques. Proficiency with statistical packages such as R, Python, EViews, and Stata would be highly regarded.

What we offer you:

We work in a flexible hybrid model, typically aligning each employee to one of our global offices, with each person spending 2 days per week in the office, and 3 days remote.

Our diverse, international client base of technology giants, start-ups and governments will provide the opportunity to work on multiple projects on behalf of industry leading companies.

We boast a collaborative working environment, social events and a robust support system. We are committed to providing training and professional development for all colleagues.