Ira Paulo Pozon is founder of Caucus, Inc., a multi-industry, multi-disciplinary management consulting firm. An attorney from the Philippines, he serves as chief of staff and a director at the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA), the chief governmental reform agency. He has a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from De La Salle University, Manila, a law degree from Far Eastern University, Manila, and a Master of Laws in International Commercial Law from the University of Nottingham, UK. He has studied Mandarin and Chinese culture in Fuzhou, China, and was a Chevening Scholar, a Confucius Institute Scholar, an alumnus of the US State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program, and a 2018 AsiaGlobal Fellow of the Asia Global Institute at The University of Hong Kong. From September 2020, he will be a senior fellow in public service at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.