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.
Speaker: Assoc Prof Taberez Ahmed Neyazi 7 January 2026
In politics, deepfakes are often framed as an existential threat to democracy. But do they really fuel polarisation as much as we assume? New research from India suggests that the real political risk posed by AI lies not in deepfakes, but in public trust surrounding how AI is used in politics.
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Speaker: Speakers: Professor Qiang Fu, Professor Sun Bae Kim, Associate Professor Johan Sulaeman and Professor Sumit Agarwal, Professor Joseph Cherian, and Professor Bernard Yeung | 2 April 2020
Speaker: Commentator: Bert Hofman | 1 April 2020
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Wang Linfa | 23 March 2020
Speaker: Experts: Visiting Professor Tikki Pangestu from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Associate Professor Hsu Li Yang, Infectious Diseases Programme Leader at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health | 9 March 2020
Speaker: Moderator: Dr Gillian Koh, Deputy Director (Research) and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies | 25 February 2020
Speaker: Author: Professor John Wong, NUS Senior Vice President (Health Innovation & Translation) | 21 February 2020
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Kishore Mahbubani, NUS Asia Research Institute Distinguished Fellow | 21 January 2020
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance | 20 January 2020
Speaker: Speaker: Associate Professor Jaclyn Neo, NUS Law | 4 December 2019
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov FRS, Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, NUS Department of Materials Sciences & Engineering | 26 November 2019