Thought Leadership

Some of the world’s leaders, and leading thinkers from NUS and overseas, regularly gather and add to the rich diversity of thoughts and ideas on our campuses, in Singapore and across the globe.
Here’s what they had to share.

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Relevance of Liberal Arts Education for Asian Development

Relevance of Liberal Arts Education for Asian Development

Speaker: Speaker: Professor Tan Tai Yong, President-designate of Yale-NUS College | 26 April 2017

Future-ready Asia

Future-ready Asia

Speaker: Speakers: Dr Beh Swan Gin, Economic Development Board Chairman; Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; Prof Brian Kennedy, Buck Institute for Research on Aging | 21 April 2017

Risk & Resilience, Imagination & Innovation

Risk & Resilience, Imagination & Innovation

Speaker: Speaker: Mr Peter Ho, NUS Trustee and Senior Advisor to the Centre for Strategic Futures | 19 April 2017

US-China Relations and the Evolving Order in Asia

US-China Relations and the Evolving Order in Asia

Speaker: Speaker: Professor David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University | 12 April 2017

New era, new opportunities

New era, new opportunities

Speaker: Speaker: His Excellency Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan | 7 April 2017

The Black Elephant Challenge for Governments

The Black Elephant Challenge for Governments

Speaker: Speaker: Mr Peter Ho, NUS Trustee and Senior Advisor to the Centre for Strategic Futures | 5 April 2017

China-India-US Relations under the Trump Administration

China-India-US Relations under the Trump Administration

Speaker: Speakers: Major General Zhu Chenghu, Dean of China’s National Defense University; Ambassador Shyam Saran, India’s former Foreign Secretary | 10 March 2017

South Asia and the world

South Asia and the world

Speaker: Speaker: Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3 March 2017

Deconstructing populism

Deconstructing populism

Speaker: Speakers: Mr Jonathan Darby, Acting Deputy High Commissioner at the British High Commission in Singapore; Frank Lavin, former US Ambassador; Assoc Prof Tan Ern Ser, NUS Arts and Social Sciences | 28 February 2017

World Order in the Age of Trump

World Order in the Age of Trump

Speaker: Speaker: Prof Amitav Acharya, Boeing Company Chair in International Relations, Schwarzman Scholars Program, Tsinghua University | 1 February 2017