Professor Singh, 53, is the former Vice-Dean of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He will assume office on 1 September 2007, taking over from Professor Hong Hai.
Professor Singh brings to NTU an impressive set of experiences and accomplishments in business management and education. He specializes in the field of management, and has broad interests in strategy and organization, corporate governance, high technology entrepreneurship and organizational change. He has taught at Wharton for the last 20 years where he is currently the Saul P. Steinberg Professor in the Department of Management. He served as Wharton’s Vice Dean (International Academic Affairs) from 1998 to 2001, playing a significant role in the school’s global efforts. He has also advised and served on the boards of several corporations -- from Infosys Technologies in India, where he was a board member, to start-ups in Silicon Valley.
About coming to Nanyang Business School, Professor Singh says, “It is a great privilege to be invited to lead a reputable institution like Nanyang Business School, and I feel humbled by this honour. Nanyang Business School already has impressive strengths as reflected in its rankings and reputation. Through a consultative process with the faculty and administration leaders at Nanyang, we will arrive at a strategy for Nanyang Business School. I look forward with much enthusiasm to being at Nanyang Business School in the near future.”
Says Dr Su Guaning, President, NTU, “We are very pleased at the appointment of Professor Singh as our Dean of Nanyang Business School. Under him, the Nanyang Business School, already the number one business school in Singapore, number two in Asia and number three in Asia Pacific, is poised to make a strong global push to the top tier of the world’s best business schools.”
Talking about the roadmap for Nanyang Business School, Prof Singh adds, “Singapore is positioning itself as a regional hub for the development of human talent. I believe Nanyang Business School has an important role to play here. The mission of Nanyang Business School should seek to balance scholarly rigour with relevance, a strategy that has served the leading North American schools well.”
NTU is a research-intensive university ranked among the top 20 technological universities in the world. It has four colleges comprising 12 schools. The Nanyang Business School (the College of Business) offers one of the world's top 100 MBA programmes. NTU has in place multi-country programmes and initiatives with established institutions worldwide. Key partners include MIT, Stanford University, Cornell University, Caltech, University of Washington, Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Waseda University, Indian Institute of Technology, Cambridge University, Imperial College and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
