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.
Prof Sing Tien Foo, Provost’s Chair Professor from the Dept of Real Estate at NUS Business School 26 September 2025
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Speaker: Speakers: Major General Zhu Chenghu, Dean of China’s National Defense University; Ambassador Shyam Saran, India’s former Foreign Secretary | 10 March 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3 March 2017
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
Speaker: Speaker: Prof Amitav Acharya, Boeing Company Chair in International Relations, Schwarzman Scholars Program, Tsinghua University | 1 February 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) & Second Minister for Defence, Singapore | 23 January 2017
Speaker: Speakers: Professor Mary C Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University; Mrs Josephine Teo, Singapore’s Senior Minister of State | 19 January 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine | 16 January 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister & Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies, Singapore | 7 January 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Wang Gungwu, Chairman, NUS East Asian Institute | 6 January 2017
Speaker: Speaker: The Honourable Kirk Wagar, United States Ambassador to Singapore | 3 January 2017