The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University.
The Singapore Management University (SMU) is a publicly-funded private university in Singapore. Founded in 2000,SMU is the third oldest autonomous university in the country,modelling its education after the Wharton School. The university is triple accredited by AACSB,EQUIS and AMBA. In 2024,SMU was ranked 44th in the world for Business and Management Studies,while also placing in the top 100 for Economics and Finance by QS.
Shih Choon Fong is a Singaporean college administrator and fracture mechanics expert who served as the founding president of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) between 2008 and 2013. Prior joining KAUST as its founding president,he was the president of the National University of Singapore (NUS) for nine years and has been widely acknowledged for creating the university's research-intensive focus with an entrepreneurial dimension,as well as for NUS' elevated global reputation. Drawing from his experiences abroad,Shih institutionalised a performance- and market-based evaluation and compensation system for academics.
Andrew Phang Boon LeongPJG is a Singaporean judge in the Supreme Court,currently sitting as a Senior Judge.
The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy is an autonomous postgraduate school of the National University of Singapore (NUS),named after the late former Prime Minister of Singapore,Lee Kuan Yew.
Dr. Ivan Png Paak Liang is a Singaporean economist and academic. He is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Business and Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore.
Chua Beng Huat is a Singaporean sociologist. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology,Faculty of Arts and Social Science at the National University of Singapore,and concurrently serving as a faculty member at the Yale-NUS College. "He has previously served as Provost Chair Professor,Faculty of Arts and Social Science (2009-2017),Research Leader,Cultural Studies in Asia Research Cluster,Asia Research Institute (2000-2015);Convenor Cultural Studies Programmes (2008-2013) and Head,the Department of Sociology (2009-2015),National University of Singapore".
Tan Eng Chye is a Singaporean mathematician and university administrator who has been serving as the third president of the National University of Singapore since 2018. Prior to his presidency,he served as the deputy president of academic affairs and provost at the National University of Singapore.
Lai Choy Heng is Emeritus Professor of Physics,NUS Emeritus Executive Vice-President and President Advisor,and the former Executive Vice-president,Yale-NUS College (2012–2014) and Vice Provost at the National University of Singapore (2003–2012). He received his undergraduate as well as graduate degrees from the University of Chicago. He took up a position as post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute,University of Copenhagen from 1978 to 1980 after which he joined National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Department of Mathematics as a Lecturer. He then moved to the Department of Physics in 1981 which saw him rise through the ranks from senior lecturer to associate professor to professor.
Arnoud De Meyer is a Belgian business academic at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business of Singapore Management University (SMU). He was previously President of SMU,Director of the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge,and founding Dean of INSEAD's Asia Campus in Singapore.
Tan Tai Yong is a Singaporean academic who is the current President of Singapore University of Social Sciences. He served as the President of Yale-NUS College from 2017 to 2022. He is also Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute of South Asian Studies,an autonomous university-level research institute in NUS. He was a former Nominated Member of Parliament and served from 2014 to 2015.
Tan Chorh Chuan is a Singaporean college administrator and professor who served as the second president of the National University of Singapore between 2008 and 2017. He is currently a professor at the National University of Singapore.
The title of university professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) is given to a small number of faculty members for outstanding scholarship and distinguished service to the university. The title was first awarded to Lim Pin in 2000. Presently,there are only six university professors in NUS.
Freddy Boey is a Singaporean academic currently serving as the president of the City University of Hong Kong. Boey was previously the deputy president of the National University of Singapore (NUS),overseeing the university's initiatives and activities in the areas of innovation,entrepreneurship and research translation,as well as graduate studies. He was previously the senior vice president of NUS. Before joining NUS in 2018,Boey was deputy president and provost of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) from July 2011 to September 2017. Prior to these appointments,he was the chair of NTU's School of Materials Science and Engineering from 2005 to 2010.
Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore,it is the first liberal arts college in Singapore and one of the first few in Asia. With an average acceptance rate of 5.2%,it is among the most selective institutions in the world. Yale-NUS was the first institution outside New Haven,Connecticut that Yale University had developed in its 300-year history,making Yale one of the first American Ivy League schools to establish a college bearing its name in Asia.
Joseph Yuvaraj Pillay,also known as J. Y. Pillay,is a Singaporean retired civil servant.
Saw Swee Hock HFLSE was a Singaporean leading expert in statistics,population,and economics,and was a noted philanthropist.
Brenda Yeoh Saw Ai is a Singaporean academic and geographer,currently serving as Raffles Professor of Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore.
Lee Pey WoanPPAPK is a Singaporean legal academic who is dean at the Singapore Management University School of Law.
