Debbie Ng, PhD, is a distinguished design leader with over 15 years of experience driving transformative change across complex public and social challenges through human-centred design. As Managing Director of ThinkPlace Singapore, she collaborates with organisations across sectors to shape innovative, sustainable futures, leveraging design as a powerful force for social good. Debbie excels in navigating intricate, multi-dimensional problems where solutions are ambiguous, applying her expertise in change leadership, ethnography, participatory action research, co-design, and service design.

Fueled by a deep commitment to empowering others, Debbie dedicates herself to coaching public leaders and managers in design leadership, developing methods that strengthen public service and social impact through design innovation, and advancing human-centred design in public policies and services.