Saravanan is the co-founder and heads MORROW Intelligence (MI), the urban advisory arm of MORROW. He is a seasoned policy analyst, experienced in applying innovative and quantitative research methods to address and achieve cities’ development goals in the face of modern urban and socioeconomic challenges. MI is also a contributor of Bloomberg’s New Economy Coalition, focused on mapping and formulating solutions for urgent problems at the city-level.
He previously served as Senior Assistant Director in Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities, Ministry of National Development, during which he led the indices team to review and benchmark the pandemic’s impact on Singapore’s development objectives and liveability framework.
Saravanan has helped in the construction of the Safe Cities, Soft Power and Good Governance Indexes, while also authoring reports on digital diplomacy and financial governance mechanisms. He has been an invited speaker for Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum 2024 and 2025, as well as the Bloomberg New Economy Forum 2023.
He read his Master’s in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore as a Li-Ka Shing Scholar, where he was also awarded the Raffles Fellowship (2017).
