To establish a world-leading centre in collaboration with the National University of Singapore (NUS), to be named the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk. NUS will match the grant funding from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF) and, working together in partnership with the Foundation, it will put in place the necessary governance, planning and leadership structures to build the Institute. The Institute will be unique and the first of its kind in Asia, undertaking research and education and building connections with practical end-users such as policy makers, decision makers, and opinion formers in government, industry, regulators, the media, and general public. It will be multi-disciplinary spanning engineering, statistics, sociology and psychology as it aims to build a better understanding of the socio-technological processes and factors affecting public opinion forming. in addition, the Institute will produce new tools and approaches for uptake by the above mentioned end-users across Asia.