Singapore’s Lost Son: How I Made It from Dropout to Millionaire Princeton Ph.D.

By Kaiwen Leong *11, Edward Choi ’14, and Elaine Leong ’13

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Marshall Cavendish Editions) Leong, who went from being expelled from four junior colleges to excelling at Princeton and making millions, managed to turn his life around through studying and never giving up. This book details his journey as a part-memoir, part-words-of-wisdom inspiring tale. Leong has published research papers on economics, mathematics, and physics, and he lectures at Nanyang Technological University and works as an economist for SPRING Singapore.

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