Jasmine B.-Y. Sim is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is the Head at the Policy, Curriculum and Leadership Department. A/P Sim was awarded the Australian International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and the International Postgraduate Award in 2003 to pursue her doctoral studies at the University of Sydney, and subsequently obtained her PhD in 2007. A/P Sim also holds a Master of Education in Learning and Teaching from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts (Upper Class Honours) in English and History from the Victoria University of Wellington. She was a recipient of the Ministry of Education Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship and the Singapore Government Scholarship.

A/P Sim researches in civics and citizenship, values education, social studies education, multicultural education, reflexivity and reflexive practice, and school-based curriculum development. In 2013, A/P Sim received the World Cultural Council Award, an honour bestowed to a select number of talented researchers who have had an international impact through their research early in their careers. A/P Sim has published widely in top tier international peer reviewed journals. Her article, 'Notions of criticality: Singaporean teacher perspectives of critical thinking in social studies', won the Cambridge Journal of Education Best Paper Award in 2009.

A/P Sim has held several local and international grants inquiring into civics and citizenship education. A recently completed six countries comparative study of youth civic activism was funded by the Leverhulme International Network Grant (UK). A/P Sim is a member of the PISA 2018 Global Competence Expert Group, Regional (Asia-Pacific) Editor of Citizenship Teaching and Learning, and sits in the Editorial Boards of London Review of Education, Nordic Journal of Comparative Education, and the following book series, Moral Development and Citizenship Education, and Curriculum and School Development in Asia.