Thought Leadership

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.

Open for business, closed in our hearts? Immigration and future of Singapore identity

Strategic Outlook: ASEAN

Speaker: Speaker: Professor Kishore Mahbubani, NUS Asia Research Institute Distinguished Fellow | 21 January 2020

Singapore’s future political landscape

Singapore’s future political landscape

Speaker: Speaker: Mr Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance | 20 January 2020

Managing Religious Diversity: The Law of ‘Religious Harmony’

Managing Religious Diversity: The Law of ‘Religious Harmony’

Speaker: Speaker: Associate Professor Jaclyn Neo, NUS Law | 4 December 2019

Materials in the Flatland

Materials in the Flatland

Speaker: Speaker: Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov FRS, Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, NUS Department of Materials Sciences & Engineering | 26 November 2019

Key governance issues of our time

Key governance issues of our time

Speaker: Speaker: Mr Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Education | 22 November 2019

Governance for the future

Governance for the future

Speaker: Speaker: Dr Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Finance, Republic of Indonesia | 20 November 2019

Homeless in Singapore: Results from a Nationwide Street Count

Homeless in Singapore: Results from a Nationwide Street Count

Speaker: Speaker: Assistant Professor Ng Kok Hoe, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy | 8 November 2019

Works, Marks and Personae: De(Re)Constructing Narratives in Intellectual Property Law

Works, Marks and Personae: De(Re)Constructing Narratives in Intellectual Property Law

Speaker: Speaker: Professor David Tan, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, NUS Law | 16 October 2019

Cannabis Policy: The Example of Canada

Cannabis Policy: The Example of Canada

Speaker: Speaker: Professor Jürgen Rehm, Senior Scientist at the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada; and Inaugural Chair of Addiction Policy at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto | 8 October 2019

Advancing Health through Innovation: Perspectives from an Entrepreneurial Scientist

Advancing Health through Innovation: Perspectives from an Entrepreneurial Scientist

Speaker: Speaker: Professor Lim Chwee Teck, Director of the NUS Institute for Health Innovation & Technology | 3 October 2019