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Thought Leaders

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. Learn more

A

  • Dr Byron Auguste
    Managing Director of Opportunity@Work and former Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council
  • Mr Shaukat Aziz
    Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
  • Prof Amitav Acharya
    Boeing Company Chair in International Relations, Schwarzman Scholars Program, Tsinghua University
  • Professor Adeney Katharine
    University of Nottingham

B

  • Dr Ban Ki-moon
    United Nations Secretary-General
  • Dr Beh Swan Gin
    Chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board
  • Dr Vivian Balakrishnan
    Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs
  • Mr Andy Bird
    Chairman of Walt Disney International
  • Mr Robert B. Zoellick
    Former President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and White House Deputy Chief of Staff

C

  • Associate Professor Ernest Chua
    NUS Engineering
  • Associate Professor James Crabtree
    Associate Professor of Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
  • Dr Cheong Koon Hean
    the Institute of Policy Studies' 5th S R Nathan Fellow, CEO of the Housing and Development Board
  • Dr Iftekhar A Chowdhury
    Principal Research Fellow, ISAS-NUS; and Former Foreign Minister of Bangladesh
  • Dr Margaret Chan
    Director-General of the World Health Organization
  • His Excellency David Cameron
    Prime Minister of UK
  • Professor Mary C Brinton
    Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University
  • Professor Robert C. Merton
    School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Simon Chesterman
    Dean and Professor National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

D

  • Dr Toby Dalton
    Co-Director of the Nuclear Policy Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Mr Jonathan Darby
    Acting Deputy High Commissioner at the British High Commission in Singapore

E

  • Dr Mohamed ElBaradei
    2005 Nobel Laureate for Peace, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency and former Vice President of Egypt

F

  • Ambassador Fabrice Filliez
    Ambassador of Switzerland to the Republic of Singapore and Brunei

G

  • Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong
     
  • His Excellency Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
    President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
  • His Excellency Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
    President of Iceland
  • Mr. Rahul Gandhi
    President of the Indian National Congress Party; Member of India's Parliament
  • Professor Stephen Greenblatt
    Harvard University

H

  • Dr Noeleen Heyzer
    Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Mr Heng Swee Keat
    Singapore’s Minister for Finance
  • Mr Peter Ho
    NUS Trustee and Senior Advisor, Centre for Strategic Futures
  • Professor Daniel Hastings
    Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology CEO
  • Professor Ho Teck Hua
    NUS Senior Deputy President and Provost

I

  • Prof John Ioannidis
    C. F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention at Stanford University

J

  • Dr S Jaishankar
    Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, ISAS; Former Foreign Secretary of India; and India’s Former Ambassador to the United States and China
  • Ms Janneke Ritchie
    CEO of Orange Gate

K

  • Ambassador Tommy Koh
    Special Adviser, Institute of Policy Studies
  • Dr Gillian Koh
    Deputy Director (Research) at Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS
  • Dr Unni Karunakara
    Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University
  • Mr Pavlo Klimkin
    Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine
  • Prof Brian Kennedy
    Buck Institute for Research on Aging
  • Professor Michael Klausner
    Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School

L

  • Dr Liong Shie-Yui
    Deputy Director, Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore
  • Dr Liu Thai Ker
    Former CEO of the Housing & Development Board and Chief Planner of the Urban Redevelopment Authority
  • Dr. Enrico Letta
    Former Italian Prime Minister and Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PISA)
  • Dr. Kai-Fu Lee
    Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, Former President of Google China
  • Frank Lavin
    former US Ambassador
  • Mr Lee Hsien Loong
    Prime Minister of Singapore
  • Mr Lim Kok Kiang
    Assistant Managing Director of Singapore Economic Development Board
  • Mr Lim Siong Guan
    Professor (Practice) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS
  • Ms Olivia Lum
    Executive Chairman and Group CEO of Hyflux Ltd
  • Professor Diana Laurillard
    Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies, University College London
  • Professor Lam Khee Poh
    Dean, NUS Design and Environment
  • Professor Leong Tze Yun
    NUS Computing
  • Professor Liu Bin
    Head of NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

M

  • Associate Professor Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim
    Senior Parliamentary Secretary
  • Dr Jeffry Mann
    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
  • Dr. Hasheem Mannan
    Associate Professor at the University College Dublin
  • HE Iris Manzanares
    Ambassador of Costa Rica to Singapore
  • Prof Kishore Mahbubani
    Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

N

  • Dr Neo Mei Lin
    Research Fellow at NUS Tropical Marine Science Institute
  • Mr Takehiko Nakao
    President of the Asian Development Bank and former Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Japan

O

  • Mr Ong Ye Kung
    Minister for Education

P

  • Dr Janil Puthucheary
    Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information & Ministry of Education
  • Dr Parag Khanna
    Managing Partner of FutureMap
  • Prof Pier Carlo Padoan
    Minister of Economy and Finance, Italy
  • Prof Romano Prodi
    Former Prime Minister of Italy

Q

  • Prof Danny Quah
    Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS

R

  • Kevin Rudd
    Former Prime Minister of Australia and President of the Asia Society Policy Institute
  • Mr V.K. Rajah
    Former Attorney-General of Singapore and Judge of Appeal
  • Mr Vinod Rai
    Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS; and 11th Comptroller and Auditor-General of India
  • Professor Francis Reynolds
    Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Oxford
  • Professor Guido Rasi
    Executive Director of European Medicines Agency

S

  • Ambassador Shyam Saran
    India’s former Foreign Secretary
  • Dr Hugo Slim
    Head of Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross
  • Mr Brad Smith
    President and Chief Legal Officer of Microsoft
  • Mr Dan Shefet
    President of the Association for Accountability and Internet Democracy
  • Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam
    Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies
  • Professor David Shambaugh
    Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
  • Professor Klaus Schwab
    Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
  • Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter
    Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University
  • Professor Sten H. Vermund
    Dean, Yale School of Public Health
  • Tan Sri Datuk Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta. Maria
    Senior Policy Fellow, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
  • The Honourable Antonin Scalia
    Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

T

  • Assistant Professor Benjamin Tee
    NUS Engineering
  • Assoc Prof Tan Ern Ser
    NUS Arts and Social Sciences
  • Associate Professor Tan Kenneth Paul
    NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
  • Dr Cecilia Tortajada
    Senior Research Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
  • Dr Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Mr TAN Gee Paw
    Special Advisor to Chairman, PUB
  • Mr Tan Kok Yam
    Deputy Secretary of Singapore’s Smart Nation and Digital Government Office
  • Mr Teo Chee Hean
    Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister
  • Mr Tshering Tobgay
    His Honorable Prime Minister of Bhutan
  • Mrs Josephine Teo
    Singapore’s Senior Minister of State
  • Ms Toni Townes-Whitley
    Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, Microsoft
  • Professor Mark Tushnet
    Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  • Professor Tan Chorh Chuan
    former NUS President
  • Professor Tan Eng Chye
    NUS President
  • Professor Tan Tai Yong
    6th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore

U

  • Amb Dr Usen Suleimen
    Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Singapore

V

  • Mr Peter Vesterbacka
    Chief Marketing Officer of Rovio Entertainment

W

  • Commander Jeffrey Williams
    Retired NASA Astronaut
  • Mr Eli Weiss
    Senior Agriculture Economist, The World Bank
  • Mr Lawrence Wong
    Singapore's Minister for National Development
  • Mr Ranil Wickremesinghe
    Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
  • Mr Wong Kan Seng
    Former Deputy Prime Minister and Former Minister for Home Affairs
  • Professor Carl Wieman
    Nobel Laureate and Physicist, Stanford University
  • Professor Wang Gungwu
    Chairman Board of Trustees ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
  • Professor William Maley
    Professor of Diplomacy, ANU college of Asia and the Pacific, Australia
  • Senator the Hon Penny Wong
    Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australia
  • The Honourable Kirk Wagar
    United States Ambassador to Singapore

X

  • His Excellency Xi Jinping
    President of the People's Republic of China

Y

  • Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
    Former President of Indonesia
  • Madam Halimah Yacob
    Singapore Speaker of Parliament and NUS Honorary Doctor of Laws Graduate
  • Mr Yeo George
    Visiting Scholar, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Singapore
  • Prof Ada Yonath
    Nobel Peace Winner for Chemistry (2009)
  • Professor Bernard Yeung
    Dean, NUS Business School

Z

  • Major General Zhu Chenghu
    Dean of China’s National Defense University
  • Ms Patricia Zurita
    CEO of Birdlife International
  • Professor Paul Zimmet
    Monash University’s Professor of Diabetes and Honorary President of the International Diabetes Foundation
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