Appointment as fourth President of SMU, from September 2010, is a homecoming for Professor Arnoud De Meyer who was founding dean of INSEAD Singapore.

Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Director of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, has been appointed as fourth President of SMU. He will commence his five-year term on 1 September 2010, succeeding Professor Howard Hunter.

Professor De Meyer was closely associated with leading French international graduate business school INSEAD, spending 23 years there in various senior academic and administrative positions before heading Cambridge’s Judge Business School in 2006. At INSEAD, he was Akzo Nobel Fellow in Strategic Management, Professor of Technology Management, Dean of the MBA programme and Executive Education, Director-General of the Euro-Asia Centre, and Dean of External Relations and Administration. His strongest connection to Singapore was as founding Dean of INSEAD’s Asia Campus in Singapore between 1999 and 2002 where he was instrumental in extending the school’s business education and research to the Asian continent.

A leading and well-known scholar in management studies, Professor De Meyer has researched, published and consulted widely in areas ranging from manufacturing and technology strategy to management of R&D and innovation, with particular interest in management and innovation in Asia, and globalisation of Asian firms. While heading INSEAD in Singapore, he served as member of the Singapore Economic Review Committee, and on the boards of the Infocomm Development Authority and Sentosa Island Corporation.