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.
"I see a lot of room and potential for SMU to achieve greater recognition amongst the international academic community especially in areas of research. Already, many leading international scholars are actively carrying out research collaborations and joint conferences with SMU faculty. We will do well to build on this while differentiating ourselves using our strategic advantage in the centre of a dynamic Asia to generate cutting-edge research with strong Asian relevance. It will be the mark of a great Asian university to be able to compete with the academic giants of the world." - Professor Arnoud De Meyer, President-designate, SMU
Mr Ho Kwon Ping, Chairman of the SMU Board of Trustees said: “We are very pleased to have concluded our global search for a new president and found in Arnoud a passionate educator, visionary leader and distinguished scholar with an illustrious track record in academic research and industry connections.”
“I would like to acknowledge the outstanding contributions of Professor Hunter in the last five years. Among many other achievements, he has overseen the move to the new city campus, establishment of the School of Law, launch of the MBA and Juris Doctor programmes, growth of several research institutes and centres, and development of new programmes relevant in meeting the needs of the business world. We are delighted he has agreed to continue as Professor of Law in SMU, returning to his first love of teaching while mentoring the Law School at its early stage of development,” Mr Ho added. |
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| Prof Arnoud De Meyer has 27 years of experiencee in business schools around the world |
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