Professor Arnoud De Meyer

Arnoud De Meyer is a global academic leader with more than 35 years of experience in international academic institutions in Europe and Asia.

Until December 2018, he served as President of Singapore Management University (SMU). Before joining SMU, Arnoud De Meyer was Director of the Cambridge Judge Business School and a faculty member at INSEAD where he assumed several management positions, among others as founding dean of INSEAD’s Asia campus in Singapore. He is an internationally recognised researcher in the areas of R&D and Innovation Management, Manufacturing Strategy and International Management. He published more than 100 academic articles and 12 books, most recently “Ecosystem Edge: Sustaining Competitiveness in the Face of Disruption” and “Building Excellence in Higher Education: Singapore’s Experience”.

Arnoud De Meyer served as an independent director of several companies and non-profit organisations in Belgium, France, Singapore and Australia. Currently he is the chair of the Temasek sponsored “Stewardship Asia Centre” (Singapore), independent director of Viva Energy Australia and the Banyan Tree Group, nonexecutive director of upGrad Private Education and member of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee.